Easy ‘cheater’ homemade chicken noodle soup recipe perfect for RVing

A few days ago I set out to make my favorite recipe of Instant Pot collard greens and somewhere in the shuffle of moving stuff in and out of the RV, I lost the recipe. A simple recipe, I knew the ingredients but I had honed the amounts and cook times until we really like it. Thankfully, I had posted it on RVtravel.com and found it again.

Yesterday we had collard greens and chicken, so with the leftover rotisserie chicken I made my RV “cheater” chicken noodle soup. Everyone loves it and I have never divulged the simple recipe, until now.

Start with a package of Chicken Noodle soup. I could only find this Shore Lunch brand but Bear Country makes a good dry package soup too.

Ingredients

• 1 package dry chicken noodle soup mix
• 1 onion, chopped
• 1/2 cup baby carrots, sliced
• 2 celery sticks, sliced
• 1/2 to 1 bell pepper, if desired
• 1 can diced tomatoes, if desired
• Olive oil
• 8 cups water
• 2-4 tsp. Better Than Bouillon Chicken Base. My new favorite for adding extra flavor.
• Pepper and salt to taste (Note soup mix, Bouillon base, and rotisserie chicken can be salty already.)
• Rotisserie chicken or precooked diced frozen chicken (Tyson)

Easy chicken noodle soup cooking instructions

• Sauté onion, carrots, celery, and bell pepper until onion is soft.
• Add 8 cups water and bring to boil.
• Whisk in soup package.
• Add diced tomatoes, if desired.
• Add Better Than Bouillon, if desired.
• Add chicken.
• Simmer for about 15 minutes until carrots and celery are soft.
• Discard the soup mix package and they will never know!

It is better the next day and freezes well.

MORE RECIPES BY NANCI:

• Instant Pot Spicy Chicken Curry Soup (Warning: This WILL make you hungry)
• Amazing Instant Pot French Onion Soup
• Easy almost-Homemade Chicken Wild Rice Soup

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