It's Crazy Cooking Challenge time! The challenge presented for January yesteryear our hostess, Tina of Mom's Crazy Cooking, was CHICKEN NOODLE SOUP. The rules? Our soups must include chicken, our soups must include noodles, in addition to nosotros must pick out establish the recipe out in that place somewhere inwards blogland. That was it ... anything else goes. And yous in all likelihood know me yesteryear directly ... I had to uncovering something that was, well, exactly a bit different. I love, love, honey to attempt recipes that pick out a crazy-sounding flavor combination or exactly a footling something inwards them yous wouldn't usually expect.
Enter ...Elizabeth of Pine Cone in addition to Acorns' Chicken Artichoke Brie Soup. Ah hah! I had establish my 'little something different.' Brie inwards chicken soup? Oh, I was all over trying that. And allow me exactly say, I'm sooooooo glad I did. This soup is thence richly creamy in addition to flavorful, in addition to beautiful, too, amongst the deep nighttime light-green of spinach running all through it. Yum.
Another slap-up thing amongst this recipe - it's pretty 'flexible' ... I intend yous could easily brand changes to the ingredients to accommodate your personal gustation in addition to it nonetheless live on exactly as wonderful as the original. Here are the changes I made:
- Added noodles ... mini farfalle (bowties), to live on exact. Hey, The Challenge did require me to utilization noodles, right?
- Increased the amount of spinach
- Substituted whole milk for the half-&-half in addition to whipping cream (I exactly couldn't pick out myself to utilization 3 dissimilar kinds of milk inwards this 1 unmarried soup!)
- Left a footling fleck of the rind on my brie, instead of cutting it all completely off. It broke my pump to cut all the wonderful brie-y-ness off.
- Added a footling extra seasoning of tabular array salt at the terminate of the cooking process
- Oh, in addition to I changed the name. Like Elizabeth suggested, I wanted a scream that encompassed all the yummy ingredients inwards this soup!
So ... let's encounter how to whip upwardly this totally delicious, creamy dreaminess of a chicken noodle soup.
Just as thence many totally tasty soups begin, get-go yesteryear cooking upwardly some onion, celery, carrots, in addition to garlic inwards a fleck of butter. Just soften them upwardly a footling fleck in addition to allow them larn to know each another.
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| Oh .... this is how sooooooo many wonderfully tasty soups begin! |
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| Mini farfalle - it's thence cute! |
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| Bring on the creamy! |
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| "I'm laid upwardly for my dip inwards the hot tub!" |
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| Beautiful soup |
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| So-soft-and-squishy Brie |
Thing 1 - Does the Brie add together a flavor element?
In Elizabeth of Pine Cone in addition to Acorns' post, she pondered most whether the Brie added flavor to this soup, or if it exactly made it prissy in addition to creamy. Well, I had to explore that inquiry farther to uncovering out. Ya know, that's exactly what I similar to produce ... I'm ever total of "I wonders." So, I scooped out some of the soup before I melted inwards the Brie and later seat it to a head-to-head comparing amongst the Brie'd version.
The verdict?? Brie does add together a flavor factor, though it's indeed really mild. Without doing a side-by-side, head-to-head gustation test, I intend it would live on hard to discern the Brie flavor element. But the Brie flavor is indeed there. The Brie absolutely adds quite a bit of a creaminess factor. While the non-Brie version is for sure nonetheless creamy, the Brie puts this soup over the top in damage of creamy dreaminess. That beingness said, if you're non a fan of Brie or exactly don't experience similar running to the shop to larn some Brie, residue assured that this soup is totally wonderful in addition to flavorful fifty-fifty without it.
Thing two - To rind or non to rind? - that is the question!
The master copy recipe instructs us to withdraw the rind from the Brie. Well, as I mentioned before inwards this post, cutting off all that Brie-y-ness inwards the rind exactly broke my heart. So, I cutting off some but also left some on. I intend the answer to this inquiry is a affair of personal preference. The rind that I left on melted into the soup exactly similar the creamy inside, thence in that place weren't whatever large ol' rind lumps. I do intend the rind gave fabulous flavor to the soup. Next fourth dimension I brand this soup, I volition exactly shave off exactly a tiny fleck of the rind in addition to piece of occupation out most of it intact. Personally, I honey the flavor of Brie rind. But, if yous don't, cutting it off.
Serve this flavorful soup upwardly amongst a salad in addition to some biscuits or crusty bread, in addition to you've got yourself 1 tasty in addition to hearty meal. Enjoy!
Creamy Chicken Noodle Soup amongst Brie, Spinach & Artichokes
Source: Adapted from Pine Cone in addition to Acorns Chicken Artichoke Brie Soup
(Printable recipe)
Ingredients
- 3 T. butter
- 1 c. chopped carrots {about two carrots}
- 1 c. chopped celery {about two to 3 stalks}
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 (14.5 oz.) cans chicken broth
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/2 tsp. ground white or dark pepper
- 1 c. uncooked modest pasta modest pasta {I used mini farfalle - a.k.a. mini 'bowties'}
- 2 c. whole milk
- 1/4 c. all-purpose flour
- 2 c. cooked chopped chicken (I used the white meat from a store-bought rotisserie chicken)
- additional 1 c. milk
- 1 (10 oz.) bundle frozen chopped spinach, thawed & well-drained
- 1 (9 oz.) bundle frozen artichokes, thawed
- 4 ½ oz. Brie or Camembert cheese, some or all of the rind removed, in addition to cutting into chunks
- In a large saucepan or Dutch oven, melt butter. Add carrots, celery, onion, in addition to garlic; create until tender, most 5-7 minutes.
- Add chicken broth, ½ teaspoon salt, in addition to 1/2 teaspoon pepper. Bring to a boil; bring down rut in addition to simmer, uncovered, for xv minutes.
- Increase rut to provide broth mixture to a tedious boil. Add pasta; bring down rut to medium in addition to simmer until pasta is al dente, most 5-7 minutes.
- Combine two cups milk in addition to flour inwards a large screw-top jar. Cover in addition to milkshake good until smooth. Stir into soup. Increase rut dorsum to medium-high; create in addition to stir until thickened in addition to bubbly, most 8 minutes. Reduce rut to medium.
- Stir inwards chicken, additional 1 loving cup milk, spinach, artichokes, in addition to brie. Cook in addition to stir over medium rut most v minutes to a greater extent than until the soup is heated through in addition to the brie is melted. Be careful non to allow the soup scorch.
- Give the soup a taste, in addition to add together tabular array salt as needed. I establish that an additional 1/2 teaspoon or thence of tabular array salt added at the terminate of the cooking fourth dimension actually brightened upwardly the flavors inwards this hearty soup.
Random thoughts:
- This soup is flavorful in addition to delicious both amongst in addition to without the Brie.
- Including the Brie's rind or cutting it off is a affair of personal flavor preference.
- I intend this soup would live on as practiced amongst or without the artichokes. So, if you're non an artichoke fan, exactly piece of occupation out them out.
- You could brand this amongst turkey, too. Great to utilization upwardly leftovers from a large ol' turkey!
- Make sure to gustation the soup at the terminate of it's cooking in addition to add together some salt, if needed. I establish that a footling sprinkling of tabular array salt at the terminate actually brightened upwardly the flavors.
Enjoy!
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