Chicken Soup - Mushroom, Pasta, Garbonzo

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Nutritional Info
  • Servings Per Recipe: 6
  • Amount Per Serving
  • Calories: 255.6
  • Total Fat: 7.4 g
  • Cholesterol: 26.7 mg
  • Sodium: 204.4 mg
  • Total Carbs: 38.3 g
  • Dietary Fiber: 10.5 g
  • Protein: 18.9 g

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Introduction

Leftover rotisserie chicken makes for great soup. Save drippings (separate and remove any fat) or add bullion if salt is not a factor. Otherwise omit these and add potassium salt after serving up a bowl full. Leftover rotisserie chicken makes for great soup. Save drippings (separate and remove any fat) or add bullion if salt is not a factor. Otherwise omit these and add potassium salt after serving up a bowl full.
Number of Servings: 6

Ingredients

    Olive Oil, 2 Tablespoons
    Garlic, fresh, diced 1 Tablespoon
    Onion, Sweet, Medium
    Mushroom, 6
    Celery, fresh, 2 stalks
    Carrots, 12 oz
    Chicken breast, cooked, 8 oz
    Rotini Pasta, Whole Grain, 1 Cup
    Garbonzo Beans, 1 cup

Directions

1. In a separate sauce pan, boil water and add rotini pasta. Cook for 3 or 4 minutes, then drain the half-cooked pasta, and set aside.
2. Prepare garbonzo beans and set aside.
3. Add oil to stock pot, heat and add garlic to flavor the oil. Cut onion in half, slice into thin wedges, add to oil when garlic sizzles. Cook till onion is clear. Slice mushrooms, add to cooked onion, and let it all heat up. Slice celery and carrots, add and heat up. Dice up the cooked chicken, add it in along with any drippings or bullion next. Add 2 cups of water, more if desired, and simmer. Allow flavors to blend five or ten minutes, more if desired.
4. Add rotini pasta and garbonzo beans, add water to cover, and simmer ten minutes more.

Number of Servings: 6

Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user DEPARRISH.