Need a bowl of chicken soup in a hurry? Try this easy chicken soup recipe made with rotisserie chicken. It's a great quick alternative to slow-cooked chicken soup.
Here's a super-fast chicken soup recipe. What makes it so quick is using pre-cooked chicken and a few other shortcuts. You can make this soup with a rotisserie chicken—or leftover chicken you've roasted in the oven or cooked in the crockpot.
But the easiest way to make this soup is with a rotisserie chicken. Just be sure to get a plain one. The ingredient list for seasoned rotisserie chicken is pretty scary (always read the label!). Even better if you can find an organic or kosher rotisserie chicken—the ingredients are usually just chicken and salt.
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Here's what you'll need
Here are the ingredients. It takes just a few pantry items and the classic soup veggies that you probably have in your kitchen.
- olive oil
- onion
- carrots
- celery
- herbes de Provence (or other dried herbs like thyme and parsley)
- chicken stock (or low sodium chicken broth)
- rotisserie chicken (or cooked chicken)
- sea salt and black pepper
How to make chicken soup with rotisserie chicken
Since the rotisserie chicken is already cooked, all you'll need to do is quickly cook a few vegetables, add chicken broth, and reheat the chicken in the soup.
Pro tip: Another secret to this speedy chicken soup is cooking as you chop the ingredients.
Start by chopping the onion. As soon as you've got the onions chopped, start sautéing them so they have time to caramelize and develop that slow-cooked flavor. (I use this large pot.)
While the onions are cooking, chop the carrots. Be sure to cut them into small pieces so they will cook all the way through. Add the carrots to the pot so they can start cooking while you chop the rest of the veggies.
Once all of the vegetables are added to the pot to cook, start prepping the chicken. I find the easiest way to do this is by using your fingers to pull the chicken meat off the bones. Then you can cut or shred any large chunks into bite-size pieces.
Next, add homemade chicken stock or a good pre-made stock or bone broth to the vegetables once they are soft. I usually try to keep some homemade stock in the freezer---and a few boxes of stock in the pantry for those days when I run out.
Once the stock is simmering, add the chicken. You can also add zucchini noodles (homemade or store-bought) at this point if you want chicken noodle soup.
This soup is so simple, you can stop at the grocery store on the way home from work and pick up a rotisserie chicken, a box of stock, and some vegetables to make soup for dinner.
Start to finish this chicken soup recipe takes just 30 minutes. Perfect when you need an easy chicken soup in a hurry.
More easy soup recipes
- Crock Pot Chicken Soup
- Easy Paleo Broccoli Soup
- 10-Minute Paleo Tomato Soup
- Easy Cauliflower Celeriac Soup with Bacon
Quick Rotisserie Chicken Soup Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 medium onion
- 3 medium carrots
- 3 celery ribs
- 1 tablespoon herbes de Provence
- 1 quart chicken stock
- 1 small cooked chicken
- sea salt to taste
- fresh ground pepper to taste
Instructions
- Chop onion. Heat olive oil in large Dutch oven. Add onion and cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally.
- Dice carrots and celery, add to the pot and continue to stir occasionally.
- Add herbes de Provence and cook until vegetables are soft, stirring occasionally.
- Stir in chicken stock, bring to boil and reduce to simmer.
- Remove meat from chicken and shred or chop into bite-size pieces. Add to soup and simmer on low for 10 minutes, or until chicken is heated through.
madison
Comfort food. This is so good especially for a cold days. Love it so much!