Gluten-free Chicken Vegetable Soup

A warming winter soup, perfect for a thermos on a cold day

Gluten-free Chicken Vegetable Soup

Kate Crocker

A warming winter soup, perfect for a cold day

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Prep Time 20 mins

Cook Time 1 hr

Total Time 1 hr 20 mins

Course Lunch

Cuisine Mediterranean

Equipment

• Medium sized saucepan
• Large stockpot
• Soup ladle

Ingredients

  

• 2 skinless chicken breast fillets
• 2 tbs olive oil
• 1 brown onion, peeled and diced
• 3 large carrots, peeled, trimmed and diced
• 2 celery stalks, trimmed and diced
• 1 cob of corn kernels
• 1.5 litres gluten-free liquid vegetable stock
• 2 generous handfuls of cooked noodles
• salt to taste
• chopped spring onion (to serve - optional)
• cracked black pepper (to serve - optional)

Instructions

 

• Over high heat, boil a medium-sized pot of water
• Add the chicken breasts (ensuring that they are covered by the water) and bring back to the boil
• Reduce heat to medium-high and allow chicken to poach for approximately 15 minutes, or until cooked through
• Meanwhile, in a large stockpot, heat oil over high heat
• Add onions and cook for two minutes, stirring occasionally
• Add carrots and celery stalks and cook for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally, until softened
• Add the corn kernels and cook for a further minute, stirring occasionally
• Add the stock to the pot and bring to the boil. Then reduce heat to medium-high.
• In the meantime, remove the chicken from the water and drain. Using two forks, shred the chicken
• Add shredded chicken to the soup. Cook for 10 minutes.
• Add the noodles and cook for a further 5 to 10 minutes, or until cooked through. If soup is too thick, use a little water to thin to desired consistency
• Add salt to taste
• Serve immediately, with sliced spring onion and black pepper

Notes

For the noodles, use broken gluten-free spaghetti, or rice noodles.

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Hi there! It’s autumn Down Under at the moment, although we’re still experiencing summer weather. It was really something for the family to go body surfing at the beach over Easter. The warm weather has been great, but it’s also been very dry here, which unfortunately brought my fig season to an abrupt end. Normally, my fig tree produces 30 to 40 kilograms of fruit. This year, I think we may have been lucky to have around 15 kilos.

So we’re all looking forward to some proper autumn weather. Crisp and cool, with gorgeous changes in tree leaves. It will happen eventually!

Gluten-free chicken vegetable soup recipe for winter

In the hope that the cooler weather will be with us soon, here is a gluten-free chicken vegetable soup recipe that is one of my family’s favourite meals. I tend to cook this when I’ve got chicken breast on hand, but am all out of ideas. The great thing about soup is that the ingredients are fairly approximate, so you can really just throw in whatever you have on hand.

Gluten-free noodles

For the noodles, I used Orgran’s Gluten-free Rice and Corn Spaghetti Noodles. The Orgran website says that they’ve been discontinued, which is a shame because they’re brilliant in this soup. So if you find them, do yourself a favour and stock up. And if you can’t find them, use gluten-free spaghetti. Just break up the uncooked spaghetti into small pieces and throw them in the pot to cook. The starch that it releases when cooking makes a beautiful thick base for the soup.

This makes a big pot of soup so there’s plenty for a second meal and for school lunches. Send heated soup in a thermos for a filling and warming lunch. For something a little different, try my Asian-style Chicken Noodle Soup. 

Enjoy!