Chicken and vegetable soup is something that has always daunted me- Mum always made it when we were sick and it tasted sooooooooo good that I was sure it was really difficult to make.Turns out, its crazy simple, very cheap and also really good for you. Provided you have the time, you can make a nourishing and reportedly healing Thermomix Chicken soup – but if time isn’t something you have in abundance, I have also given “quick” instructions for a 15 minute meal as well (in the notes). I know my family will be enjoying this recipe winter long. Love Nik xx
P.s. how beautiful is that bowl? I bought it at a recent trip to the Jam Factory here in South Australia.
skinnymixer's Chicken & Vegetable Soup
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Author: skinnymixer's
Recipe type: Soup
Serves: 6
Ingredients
Stock Ingredients
- 1 medium brown onion, peeled, quatered
- 3 garlic cloves, peeled
- 50 g | 1.8 oz celery, roughly chopped
- 50 g | 1.8 oz carrots, roughly chopped
- 700 g | 24.7 oz skinless chicken thigh with the bone or lovely legs (I recommend you use free range)
- roughly 900 g | 32 oz water
- 1 tbsp salt
- ½ tsp cracked black pepper
- 1 bay leaf
To Serve (recommended, you can use what you like)
- 150 g | 5.3 oz carrot, thinly sliced
- 150 g | 5.3 oz celery, thinly sliced
- 200 g | 7 oz spinach leaves, thinly sliced
- handful of fresh continental parsley, roughly chopped
Instructions
- Add onion, garlic, celery, carrots and chicken directly in to mixer bowl.
- Pour water, salt, pepper and bay leaf into mixer bowl, to the max line - this is roughly 900 g or 32 oz in the TM31, a bit more in the TM5. Cook for 60 min/90°C or 195°F/slowest speed/MC on. You can totally clean your kitchen and prepare your vegetables for serving now 😛
- When cooking time has finished, remove your chicken to a thermal server and add your serving vegetables (except for the spinach and parsley) to the stock (I dont bother draining it, the stock vegetables are also delicious!). Cook for 10-15 min/90°C or 195°F/slowest speed/MC on. While the vegetables are cooking, carefully shred your meat from the bones without burning yourself, and discard the bones. Pour soup & vegetables over your chicken, spinach and parsley, season to taste if needed, and serve.
Notes
Quick Soup Instructions
Omit stock ingredients.
Replace chicken thigh/leg with 700 g or 24.7 oz cubed chicken breast.
Add cubed chicken breast, pepper and serving vegetables (except for the spinach and parsley) to mixer bowl with 2 tbsp chicken stock concentrate.
Top water up to max fill line and cook for 10-15 min/90°C or 195°F/slowest speed/MC on or until cooked.
Bellini Users
Use your blunt blade for this recipe.
At step 2 use speed 1.
At step 3 cook for longer if required.
Omit stock ingredients.
Replace chicken thigh/leg with 700 g or 24.7 oz cubed chicken breast.
Add cubed chicken breast, pepper and serving vegetables (except for the spinach and parsley) to mixer bowl with 2 tbsp chicken stock concentrate.
Top water up to max fill line and cook for 10-15 min/90°C or 195°F/slowest speed/MC on or until cooked.
Bellini Users
Use your blunt blade for this recipe.
At step 2 use speed 1.
At step 3 cook for longer if required.
Nutrition Information
Serving size: 300g Calories: 136 Fat: 4.8g Saturated fat: 1.4g Carbohydrates: 3g Sugar: 2.7g Sodium: 1030mg Protein: 18.5g
Can I use chicken breasts??
You will need to follow the quick method in the notes 🙂
One of the best chicken soups made in the Thermomix I have had.
Another tasty dish. Added noodles to the kids bowls as well and they enjoyed it, even Miss Super Fussy 6 Yr old!
Amazing!!!… After removing the chicken I blitzed the stock instead of straining the veggies awesome flavour. Kids loved it!
First time cooking this recipe and Thermo is making struggling noises, is this normal? Fairly new Thermo so don’t want to ruin it.
Can I freeze this soup or how long will it keep on the fridge? Planning to make for lunches.
3 day rule or freeze
Made this today and it was awesome. My boys ate a bowl each straight after school.
Thanks for such yummy recipes.
Can you use 1Tbs of stock paste instead of salt or do you add both
I always add stock paste and no extra salt
Wow! This soup is really good. I like how the broth is still thin but loaded with goodness. I strained the stock vegies as out I dont like that much onion and added fresh sweetcorn and green beans. The perfect cure for the head cold I have at the moment. Thanks Nik 👌🏼🍲
Broth is tasting delicious so far! Quick question – is it spinach leaves off of a bunch of spinach or is it spinach leaves that you buy in a salad packet?
I always use baby spinach
5 thumbs up! Absolutely the best chicken veg soup i have ever made. Followed recipe using chicken drumsticks and adding zoodles in last 5 minutes of cooking time. I had no parsley but was still a winner. Even father in law had a serving and he doesn’t like spinach but loved this soup. Thanks skinnymixers team!
Absolutely delicious. The best chicken and veg soup I have ever made. I did a tablespoon of iodised sea salt and followed instructions, excepts I used chicken thighs with no bones. Lots of flavour, this will be a weekly dish in the winter time! Thanks for the recipe!!
Very enjoyable soup that you can customise to your taste. I added 2 tsps chicken stock and some dried thyme and chilli flakes. Great soup to make when you are sick because the thermal cooker does most of the work.
I am getting over a cold and have been wanting to make this soup for some time. I was underwhelmed. I like big flavours and this soup is not it. I added extra vegetables then vegetable stock paste and then worshtershire sauce for flavour. Too bland for me which is a disappointment.
you have everything you need here as a base…. make it your own… i added some chicken stock and chilli, extra bay leaf and a lot lot lot more pepper and it is devine
Made two batches of this tonight as it was so delicious. First batch went to all the ailing ones recovering from gastro. 2nd batch went to the rest of the house for dinner. I did strain the stock veges out both times. I also popped a pad of noodles into the basket in the last 5 minutes of cooking. Will add 2 next time. Just fantastic. Thank you
Wow wow wow! Tried the quick version as only had chicken breast. Was so easy and fast but blown away by flavour! Served with crispy bacon…mmmmm!
Another winner! Thanks Nik!
Easy, tasty and delicious!
This was delicious, exactly what I needed while being sick with a cold. It was so tasty and so easy to make.
I made this soup tonight for my daughter who has come down with an awful flu. She hasn’t eaten all day because her throat is so sore and she totally scoffed the lot. When I made the stock I was in such a rush I forgot to chop the onion, so the stock was made without it and it was still delicious. I will definitely made again. Wish the thermie bowls were bigger so we could make a bigger quantity of the stock. That really is yummy and I would like more liquid with my soup.
Just made the quick version for my son who’s home sick with a cold. He’s not a fan of soups or veggies but he happily ate a bowl of this. Hubby thought it tasty too 😋
How did you make rhe quick vision? I hqve home made chicken paste so could i just use that with chicken and veg? I’m new to thermomix but this sounds yum. I also have veg atock witch im in love witb
I have just made this soup for my work lunches through the week. To the broth, I added a dash of Apple cider vinegar and a couple of coins of fresh ginger. At the end, I added some finely sliced carrot, celery, kale and spinach and some par cooked risoni (keeping in mind that it will cook through a bit more in the broth when I reheat it). I also put in a few tablespoons of veggie stock paste. It looks vibrant, healthy and delicious and I’m looking forward to lunch tomorrow. Such a simple recipe, thank you once again Nikalene xxx
I made this today and the stock didn’t have much taste – it could be because I’m sick and can’t taste much :-). I added chicken stock concentrate (also a skinnymixer recipe) and it’s just fabulous. I love the recipes from this website and the books.
I’ve made this tonight for my Dad who has a cold that’s knocking him about a bit. He LOVED it – and so did the rest of us, including 2 of my non-soup loving family members (hubby & 7 yr old).
Thank you.
I can’t b live how amazing this smells with such simple ingredients 😍Thank you Nik💐
This one is a winner! Made it for my travelling parents who requested a quick and flavoursome soup! I made this and it went off a treat. I did add extra garlic and a really good tablespoon of Nik’s chicken stock concentrate. When I took the chicken out I added a whole heap of vegetables (chunks of book Choy, zucchini, carrot etc) It got some major thumbs ups in this house which says a lot as my Dad is quite pedantic when it comes to his soups! Leftovers are frozen ready for a “on the road hit!”
Well done Nik!
Absolutely love this one! It’s affordable, easy and super yummy – a regular in our house since it was posted.
I have always craved chicken soup when I’m sick but could never find the right recipe. This is just perfect. I didn’t have celery or spinach but added heaps of sliced mushrooms to the serving vegetables. Highly recommend, I could honestly just drink a cup of the broth as a warm drink! Thank you for an amazing recipe that I’ll use for myself and my family xx
This is hands down the best chicken and veg soup I’ve ever made or tasted. Perfect for a healthy winter lunch!
I made this soup yesterday with all intentions of having it for lunch during the week. I now have a problem…. Hubby has pretty much devoured it already!
Thanks for a easy and delicious recipe that gives my hubby faith my cooking 😀
Absolutely fantastic thank you for sharing this recipe will definitely be making this again👍👍
Loved loved loved this soup. Was so tasty and nourishing not to mention easy as! Definitely making this one again. Thank you!
Amazing soup. Made this as I wasn’t feeling well. One sip of the soup made me feel much better. Used spring onions and coriander instead of celery as I didn’t have celery at home and it still turned out well. Thanks so much Nik!
This is going to be a regular for me this winter!
This soup is the best chicken soup I have tasted. Delicious! Thanks Nik
This is on my list for today. Yesterday I made the Cauliflower and chicken soup and the bacon and vegetable soup…now I know what all the hype is about as both were delicious and at this rate i’ll smash the 7 day challenge😊
Did anyone else’s thermomix struggle with this? My TM isn’t very old however sometimes I find the blades struggle with certain things and even at the slowest speed it kept stopping and starting. I ended up taking the butterfly out – perhaps my chicken was too large? It was also very noisy as it went around. Any advice from other people who have cooked would be appreciated as maybe it’s my machine?
Very tasty recipe. My thermomix (TM31) had the same issue, and the butterfly actually popped out at one point. I just let it keep going, and it eventually quietened down (after things got a bit more mushy).
*keep going after I put the butterfly back in.
The recipe doesn’t state to use Butterfly though?
`That’s what I thought. Re-read the recipe several times. There are other’s who have mentioned the use of the butterfly.
I have just put mine in without butterfly. Did yours work out ok?
I’m not using the butterfly either? It’s struggling a bit but still going.
No need to use the butterfly! ☺
Love this method with the butterfly- used it to make a minestrone soup with intact veggies, pasta etc.Thanks!
This was such a beautiful warming soup to have on a cold day, so full of flavour. Even my 2 kids wanted to drink the broth, it felt so healthy!
The only change I needed to make was to add another 25 mins cooking time on the end because the carrots were still quite hard. I also added some zucchini noodles on serving to bulk it up a bit. Yum, will be making this often throughout the winter months. Thanks for another delicious recipe.
Absolutely delicious.. My two yr old twins demolished 2 bowls for lunch (I may have done the same)…. Thank you for yet another amazing recipe.
Thank you so much for creating this wonderful recipe. I made it last night and it was delicious.
Made this today. It was so good that I immediately tripled the recipe and cooked it in the slow cooker to make enough for a weeks worth of lunches. Thanks Nikalene!
Can I ask how long you put it in the slow cooker for (and what temp)?
Also did you just put it all in at once or do the stock & chicken first and add the serving veggies at a later time? Sorry to be a pain just wanted to make a decent size batch in one hit 🙂
What if u dont have a thermo mix… can u tell me stove top dire tions please
I just made the quick recipe today and it is so nice. I will definitely make the full recipe next time.
Thank you once again 😄
I often make a soup to comfort me when I am sick or feeling depressed. As it turns out today it is both. This soup is truly delicious and so superior to any stove top chicken and vegetable soup I will never make stove top chicken soup again. I used chicken chops (skin removed) which had bones in it. I also replaced a bay leaf with bouquet Garni but that was all. Gorgeous taste, aroma (especially when it was cooking in first stage) and this will go down as one of my all time Nik creation favourites. Thank you for providing a recipe that filled my stomach and fed my soul. Xxx
Perfect as I have a cold coming on and this soup was just what the doctor ordered! It’s so warming and comforting, and it tastes great! I did the long version using chicken thigh cutlets with the bones in. So delicious! Thank you Nik X
Thankyou! Thankyou! Thankyou!
So easy AND delicious!! This will definitely be a regular at our house. xx
Thank you for this recipe! I had 700g of chicken breast to make soup with tonight and reverted back to the soup pot as I wasn’t sure of quantities , which was a nuisance because I wanted to go riding with my son, but couldn’t leave the soup pot unattended because it doesn’t turn itself off when its finished! Can’t wait to try the bone broth version, thanks again!
Thank you for all the time n trouble you take.
Really appreciate it. Xoxo 😙