How to Make Gourmet Chicken Soup

Chicken soup has been subscribed to help heal the common cold dating back to the days of Ancient Egypt. It's even rumored that Mahatma Gandhi, who was a strict vegetarian would eat chicken soup, as even he recognized the healing powers in this tasty treat.

Chicken soup is an excellent comfort food and many memories are created from eating homemade chicken soup made with love and care by their loved ones. This article will make it possible for you to create some of these kinds of memories straight from your own kitchen.

The first thing is to get a crock-pot, or if you don't have a crock-pot, get the largest pot you can find. You will be slow simmering your chicken soup. The aroma is going to fill the entire home all day and that is a great pleasure all in itself.

The base for the soup is chicken broth and French onion soup mix. The powdered French onion soup mix and don't use water, the chicken broth to mix it with. Get about four 16-ounce cans of any brand of chicken broth that you care to use.

The best kind of chicken to use is whatever is on sale. If you are time challenged, get boneless, skinless chicken. If you have extra time though, get chicken with the bones and skin, it will add more flavor to your soup. The extra time to get the bones and skin out before serving time will be worth it.

A delightful addition of meat to the soup, which will also make it a heartier meal, is sweet Italian sausage. Usually just a small amount is fine, and cut this up into small pieces. The seasoning in the sweet Italian sausage will be a great compliment to the other seasonings in the soup and will give it a distinctive, unique flavor that will stand out from ordinary chicken soup made without it.