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Enjoy Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup Recipe in just 20 minutes any day of the week thanks to this easy recipe. If you are craving soup and need a super fast and delicious recipe, this is the best chicken noodle soup.
Sometimes I am in the mood for homemade chicken noodle soup, but I simply don’t always have the time to make it. However, you really can have homemade chicken noodle soup recipe in 20 minutes or less for an easy stove top recipes.
All you need is the chicken already cooked. Now you can just shred up a rotisserie chicken or you can make your own. Not only does it save time and money but it tastes amazing.
If you love making quick and easy Soup Recipes, then this is the recipe to start with. Check out these other classic soup recipes – Crockpot Taco Soup Recipe and Crockpot Potato Soup Recipe.
Table of Contents
- Why Make this Soup:
- Chicken Noodle Soup Ingredients:
- Substitutions and Additions:
- Step by Step Instructions:
- Expert Tips:
- How do you Add Flavor to Chicken Soup:
- What to Eat with Chicken Noodle Soup:
- How to Make Ahead of Time:
- Can You Freeze?
- Frequently Asked Questions:
- Try These Other Easy Soup Recipes:
- 20 Minute Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup Recipe
Why Make this Soup:
This chicken soup taste so much better than store bought canned soup. You will love the fresh ingredients and how everything combines together easily in this quick and easy chicken recipes.
If you are looking for a soup that is the ultimate comfort food, this is the soup to make. Simple ingredients makes this soup a family favorite.
Chicken Noodle Soup Ingredients:
- Cooked Shredded Chicken
- Chicken Broth
- Carrots
- Onion
- Celery
- Thyme
- Bay Leaf
- Minced Garlic
- Salt and Black pepper to taste
- Egg Noodles
For the full recipe, scroll to the bottom for the recipe card.
Substitutions and Additions:
- Make it creamy – Add in a cup of heavy cream or whole milk into the soup for the last 5-10 minutes of the cook time. This makes a creamy chicken noodle soup.
- Add more veggies – This soup is a great way to get in some of those healthy veggies. You can add in your favorite type. Stir in fresh spinach or kale into the soup. Add in toward the end of the cook time is an easy way to add in my nutritional vegetables to this recipe.
- Egg Noodles – I prefer egg noodles but rotini would work great too. Check the cook time on the pasta that you use in this recipe as more time might be needed.
- Add a little bit of lemon – If you love lemon, add a small amount of lemon juice (½ a lemon). Add right before serving to give this soup a delicious and sweet lemon flavor.
- Use Potatoes or Rice – If you don’t love noodles or maybe your family cannot have gluten. This soup is delicious with diced up potatoes or cooked rice stirred into it instead of the noodles.
- Change Chicken – I usually use chicken breasts for this recipe but chicken thighs would work great too. You can use leftover chicken or rotisserie chicken or boil some chicken if you don’t have either of those on hand.
- Chicken Stock – Chicken stock can also work in this recipe.
- Carrots – Whole carrots that have been peeled and diced. You can use baby carrots. If you use baby carrots, ensure that you dice them up so that they are easy to eat in this soup.
- Garlic – Garlic salt or garlic powder would work great too if you don’t have any minced garlic on hand.
Step by Step Instructions:
- Step 1 – In a stock pot or large pot, drizzle olive oil. Add in the onions, carrots and celery and cook until they become soft.
- Step 2 – Add chicken broth, chicken, water, and seasonings. Then bring to a boil.
- Step 3 – Allow the vegetables to continue to cook and the chicken to thaw and heat up.
- Step 4 – Add pasta and cook on medium-high for about 10 minutes until the pasta is cooked to al dente.
- Step 5 – Then you can top with fresh parsley when serving. The entire family will love this easy chicken noodle soup recipe.
Expert Tips:
- Use a Food Processor to Dice Veggies – I love using a food processor to dice the veggies for my favorite soup recipes. A food process is easy to use to dice up all my veggies and makes them small enough to easily serve on a spoon.
- Dice up extra Vegetables – When I make this soup, I will dice up all the vegetables at one time. Then freeze the leftovers to use in other soup recipe. For example, I will dice up the entire bag of celery, use what I need for this recipe. Then freezer the leftovers so they are easy to grab for when I’m ready to make another soup for my family.
- Use Leftover Chicken – This soup is great to make with leftover chicken. I will initially make extra chicken one night so that I can use the leftovers in this soup another night of the week.
- Use what Herbs you have – I love using thyme in this recipe. But if you don’t have any on hand, use different herbs instead that you already have in pantry. The flavor will be a little different than in my recipe but will still be delicious. Rosemary, Oregano or Basil would all work great in this easy soup recipe.
How do you Add Flavor to Chicken Soup:
The chicken broth combined with the seasonings give this soup the best flavor. You will absolutely love how amazing this tastes. Make sure that you use a good quality broth as this is what adds flavor to this soup.
I also prefer a low sodium broth as it has lower salt in it. Then I can easily control the amount of salt in this soup.
Also, you’ll be surprised on what a little salt and pepper can add to a soup recipe. I usually taste test my soups as they are cooking and add more salt and pepper at the end if more is needed.
What to Eat with Chicken Noodle Soup:
We love to serve this soup with crackers or warm bread like Easy Homemade Dinner Rolls Recipe or these Homemade Hawaiian rolls. Bread is my favorite side dish to serve with this soup.
I love serving soups with homemade breads that I can easily dip into the flavorful broth in this recipe.
Check out What to Serve with Chicken Noodle Soup for more chicken noodle soup side dishes.
How to Make Ahead of Time:
Yes, you can make this soup ahead of time. Then store it in an air tight container in the refrigerator for up to 3-4 days. If you make this soup ahead of time, I recommend waiting to add in the noodles until you are ready to serve. The noodles will soak up the broth as it sits and they may become soggy
Then when you’re ready to enjoy the soup, heat it up in a large pot on the stovetop. Then add in the dried noodles and cook until the tenderness that you prefer.
Can You Freeze?
Yes, this soup can be frozen for up to 3 months in a freezer safe, air tight container. Again, I would wait to add the noodles if you are going to freeze this soup as they will soak up the broth.
When ready to serve, defrost the soup out in the refrigerator. Then reheat on the stovetop and add in the dried noodles to cook to your preference.
See Can you Freeze Chicken Noodle soup for more information.
Frequently Asked Questions:
Store your leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge for up to days. This makes for a great lunch the next day, so I like to store in individual containers.
Crock Pot Chicken Noodle Soup is easy to make as well. I use a different type of noodle in this recipe but either would work great in this soup. This soup can also be made in the Instant Pot too.
Try These Other Easy Soup Recipes:
- Crockpot Chicken Tortilla Soup Recipe
- Lemon Chicken Orzo Soup
- Creamy Vegetable Soup Recipe
- Easy Crock Pot Chicken Vegetable Soup
We love hearing from you. If you make this Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup, make sure to leave us a comment.
20 Minute Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup
Ingredients
- 2 boneless skinless chicken breasts cooked and shredded
- 8 cups chicken broth
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 4 celery stalks chopped
- 4 whole carrots chopped
- 1/2 onion diced
- 1/4 teaspoon thyme
- 1 teaspoon minced garlic
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 2 Bay Leaves
- 1 cup Egg noodles
- 2 cup water
Instructions
- In a stock post drizzle with olive oil.
- Add the minced garlic, carrots, celery, and onion.
- Cook for 5-8 minutes until beginning to become soft.
- Add chicken, chicken broth, water, and seasonings. Bring to a boil.
- Allow the vegetables to continue to cook and the chicken to cook through.
- Once the chicken is cooked through, remove from the pot and shred the chicken.
- Add the chicken back into the pot.
- Add pasta and cook on medium-high for about 10 minutes.
- Remove the bay leaves.
- Serve with your favorite rolls, like our Homemade Hawaiian rolls.
This soup is absolutely Amazing and so easy! Perfect flavor. Definitely will be saving this one.
Best chicken noodle soup I’ve ever tasted!
The veggie and spice ratios are perfect!
This will be a weekly dinner through winter!
Thank you!!!
Great recipe. Will make again!
Very good
I’m so glad you enjoyed it.
I have received so many compliments from making this recipe. It’s so easy and ultimately so delicious.
Yes. I have updated the recipe card.
This recipe calls for minced garlic. Do I add with the carrots, celery & onion mixture? It don’t say
So glad you loved it!
So glad you loved it!
One of the easiest and delicious recipes I’ve found for chicken noodle! Hit the spot!
So very good quick and easy!!! Thanks!!
I do not have a physical cookbook yet, but I do have an amazing digital cookbook bundle.
Do you have cook books you sell?
I love this soup recipe. My husband had surgery and couldn’t eat a whole lot of things but he could have chicken noodle soup but the canned stuff is not ideal. So I found this recipe and made it for him. I added small golden potatoes. I cut them into four’s and added them with the other veggies before I added the broth and I had to add some cooking time on to it. I also used a rotisserie chicken and this turned out great. Thank you for this awesome recipe.
Amazing!!!!! don’t forget it is a quick recipe so it isn’t gonna taste like chicken noodles that cooks all day
My son just learned how to make his own noodles at school so we made turkey and noodle soup today with the left over turkey and it was delicious
I love do that too. I love reames noodles
Yes that would work. both are great.
My family and i serve chicken noodle soup with homemade beer bread and we add homemade or a can of cream of chicken soup and onion.
I’m going to make batches and freeze this for when I have our baby #2! I like to add making some quick biscuits from scratch for my hubby!
Love that idea!
I like to order some fresh ginger to the broth and serve with favorite homemade rolls.
Favorite soup served with crackers and bread, either biscuits or bread. Only thin to add is parmesan cheese to the top of the soup when serving.
I would serve the soup with some crusty bread or crunchy crackers. And I would probably add button mushrooms.
The soup looks really good and I may have to try it. The only thing I would add would be whole button mushrooms. I love them in soups.
I would serve French Bread that is buttered and garlic added with this Chicken Noodle Soup.
This looks great! I might add a little Velveeta cheese to thicken it up a bit and serve it with crusty garlic bread.
haven’t made it yet, but the recipe looks perfect. I would have a toasted slice of beer bread on the side just to have the crunch.
This soup sound delicious. Since it is thanksgiving this weekend in Canada will probably make this soup with leftover turkey with a side of fresh baked bisquits.
I would add a small squeeze of fresh lemon at the end.
This soup looks amazing. I think a grilled cheese would go great with it!
i love this recipe i am always serving it with crusty bread or grilled cheese sandwiches and the recipe is perfect the way it is
I would serve homemade warm bead with butter. My mouth is drooling looking at this picture. I know whats for supper!
Excited for soup weather! There’s something so comforting about warming up with a nice, hot bowl of soup! I serve it with a simple sliced Italian bread with butter.
My kids love this soup and in the cooler months they ask for it weekly. Their usually not a big fan of veggies but they love this soup.
Looks delicious. We always have grilled cheese with our chicken noodle soup!
Never made chicken noodle soup before. I would definitely try the creamy version. Love grilled cheese with my soup
I love to make those easy take and bake rolls from the bakery at my local grocery store.
Easy to make and they soak up all the soup goodness!
I also would add frozen peas at the end of cooking or for a change up, spinach!
I also think a crisp cold salad would be a great side to go along with. I like eating saltine crackers and dipping them into the broth!
We have crackers and/or grilled chesses with chicken noodle soup. This soup is amazing!!!
Love this recipe!!! I also serve some kind of bread or rolls with soup- yum!! FYI, I usually cook the noodles separately and serve the soup over them. Then they are not mushy when leftovers are reheated. With only 2 in our household, there will be wonderful leftovers.
Did you precooked the pasta for the chicken soup?
I would serve homemade biscuits or grilled cheese with this soup.
This recipe looks amazing! I would not change a thing!! We usually have breadsticks or biscuits with our chicken soup….yummmm
would serve with chicken salad sandwiches
I like to serve chicken noodle soup with a grilled cheese sandwich. I know it’s the traditional tomato soup it is served with but I like the chicken broth with the melty cheese.
I also like to buy the match stick carrots if I can swing it for Chicken Noodle. It’s a time saver!
We eat ours with grilled cheese sandwiches
Love the recipe. I used a lemon and pepper rotisserie chicken. I also put a pinch of red pepper flakes in the celery, onions, and carrots are getting tender. My family loves a piece of hot fresh French bread so they get every last bite.
I would love this with some homemade biscuits or homemade bread! Yumm
I would serve Church Spread sandwiches with this soup. The recipe for church spread is
1 cup karo syrup
1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
1/4 cup marshmallow fluff
Mix well
It’s not a healthy side dish, but it sure is good!
This soup looks yummy. What would you serve with this soup?
I love your recipes.
Look delicious! I would serve with nice crusty bread. And I will definitely add this to me recipes.
I would add some poultry seasoning to the recipes.
I serve grilled cheese sandwiches sometimes with chicken noodle soup.
I made this delicious recipe last year and look forward to making it again this year when it starts getting colder here in Texas. I wouldn’t add to the recipe and I usually just eat it with crackers but might try with cornbread or Hawaiian Rolls this time around.
I love me some homemade chicken noodle! We usually pair it with french bread or use saltine crackers for dipping. If I feel like mixing up the flavor, I like to throw in a little bouillon or onion powder and parsley.
I like to serve French Bread or wheat toast with lots of soups. Crockpots soups are so great for busy evenings. Many times we have “Crockpot Tuesdays” since I work later that day and typically have evening meetings on Tuesdays.
I have made this recipe and the whole family enjoys it! We just eat it with saltine crackers usually on a cold wet day.
Looks yummy. I would serve garlic toast with this soup.
I’m going to try this recipe. I like to have rolls with my soup.
I would add just about a 1/2 tsp of poultry seasoning and 1/4 tsp of tumeric. I would serve this with cornbread muffins.
This soup looks delicious. I would probably eat crackers with it
I would omit the noodles and try rice. This is an excellent receipe that I will make often.
Delicious Chicken Noodle Soup! I did add one item to the soup – request from my husband – dumplings. This soup is a perfect meal with warm rolls, thank you for sharing.
I think I would serve home made rolls with it. I’m looking forward to trying the home made Hawaiian rolls. The soup sounds delicious!
This recipe is one of my favorites. Sometimes I use better than bullion if I don’t have chicken stock on hand. Soup season is upon us and can’t wait to make this soon.
This soup sounds delicious. I think I would make it just the way it is first. Then maybe change it next time. I would serve crackers with butter on them or grilled cheese sandwiches.
The noodles I usually use no yokes.. Would this work ? I see you use egg noodle .what the difference?
Yum! I love this soup! I like to serve it with biscuits and a basic salad. ( I’m a bit weird, I can’t have all soft food in a meal, some sort of crunch has to be involved)??
I like to add cumin and basil, and some cabbage as well to the recipe.
Easy and excellent recipe. Served with oatmeal rolls.
Yum! I love this soup! I like to serve it with biscuits and a basic salad. ( I’m a bit weird, I can’t have all soft food in a meal, some sort of crunch has to be involved)??
I like to add cumin and basil, and some cabbage as well to the recipe.
Can’t wait to try this with the Hawaiian rolls!
A nice hot contianer of chicken sosup on a Fall and or winter afternoon….nothing beats it…thanks for the great recipe choice.
Yum! I love this soup! I like to serve it with biscuits and a basic salad. ( I’m a bit weird, I can’t have all soft food in a meal, some sort of crunch has to be involved)??
I like to add cumin and basil, and some cabbage as well to the recipe.
chicken noodle soup is one of my go to meals during the fall and winter. i always eat it with saltine crackers lol, basic i know. i added onion, but i always add onion to everything.
I would omit the salt and use ACCENT. And I serve homemade biscuits.
It looks divine and
Easy and tasty recipe
I would fix cornbread to eat with my chicken soup…..
Looks so yummy! I think I would like to try the creamy version with half and half… has anyone tried that? Maybe add some bacon (in other words, no longer healthy!)
I would have biscuits or cornbread with this soup.
This looks amazing. I would probably serve with some type of crackers. I wouldn’t change a thing I think it will be perfect just as the recipe is!! Perfect for when it gets cold here in Oklahoma!!
This sounds delicious. I would make it lower carb by omitting noodles and add some fresh kale.
One of my favorite soups. But we prefer the frozen Raemes noodles rather than egg noodles. Might need to make this tonight!!!
We always add a dash of cinnamon to our bowls of chicken noodle soup. It just seems to add a little boost to the flavor.
Delicious with homemade biscuits!!
This is my favorite, go to chicken noodle soup recipe! Always a hit. Thank you for this!
AMAZING recipe, thank you so much!
Delicious soup.
Sorry about that, I used minced garlic in this recipe. I updated the post to be more clear. Thank you.
Thank you so much Molly!
I actually made/lead this today on zoom for a virtual chef class and it was amazing ! So many great reviews. Parents even asked for a link to your page/copy! Now I have a ton of yummy leftovers !
If you’re second guessing making it, I promise just do it !
Hello, I am wanting to make this soup and I saw that it says to use garlic salt in the list of ingredients but then on the recipe it says minced garlic,is the measurements the same?
I made this soup 11.20.21 and we LOVED It! It came together quickly and was loaded with flavor. My husband and I packed it for our lunches. A friends young son had Covid (thankfully no symptoms) and I was looking to make something comforting. This soup did the trick. I plan on making it again using the leftover turkey from Thanksgiving. Thank you for sharing your recipe. It is a keeper.
We had this for dinner tonight! Oh my goodness…SO good!! Perfect fall & winter meal!! We will be having this again! Go make this…GO!!
Yes, you can. I usually use cornstarch. I mix 2 Tbsp of cornstarch with 1/4 cup of water and stir that into the soup. Heat and stir it until the soup thickens to the consistency that you prefer.
Could you thicken this recipe a bit and if so what would you use. Thank you
Thank you so much!
Delicious chicken noodle soup. Very simple to make. I added 1 teaspoon chicken bouillon powder. This recipe is definitely a keeper.
Love that idea – Thank you for sharing 🙂
Want to make this soup extra rich and yummy? Add a can of cream of chicken or cream of celery soup. I add just a little rice, too! So good!
It’s approximately 4 ounces of uncooked egg noodles. I use approximately 1/3 of a 12 oz package of egg noodles.
How do you measure “one cup egg noodles” – dry or cooked? If dry, how do you measure dry egg noodles?
Yes, that’s correct – I don’t use as many since it’s a soup.
The recipe says 1 cup of egg noodles. Is that correct?
I used an 8 quart stock pot for this recipe. I do have a crock pot chicken noodle soup that can be found here. You can use egg noodles instead of the Reames noodle in this recipe. Thanks – I hope you enjoy it!
Can you make this in a crock pot if you don’t have a big enough stock pot ?
Also what size stock pot do you need/use ?
Hi . Made this tonight and it was awesome! Thank you!
I made this recipe and my family loved this soup! So easy and delish!
Making this one today for sick family.
I’m so glad you enjoyed it – Thank you for sharing!
I just finished my bowl. I used a rotisserie chicken and used celwry salt instead of celery. I must say I have never been a fan of chicken noodle soup. But this my friends was absolutley amazing. I was worroed the carrots wouldnt soften in time but man oh man this recipe is definitely a keeper. Thank you!
Thank you so much!
AWESOME RECIPE!!!!!! It’s a shame 5 stars is all that’s available!!! I now love chicken noodle soup!!! Thank you for sharing this recipe!!!!!! ??
That’s great to hear – Thank you for sharing!
Made it and everyone loved it!! Absolutely delicious!!! Thank you for sharing.
I think that the 6 chicken broth should work. Thank you!
Hi I am planning on making this tonight and I got a chicken brother that serves six… should i still get the other 7 cups? Thank you for sharing this!!
I’m so glad you enjoyed it – Thank you for sharing!
I made this incredibly wholesome chicken noodle soup today. I’m absolutely satisfied. Thank you for sharing.
I’m so glad you enjoyed it – Thank you for sharing!
Easy to make and taste delicious. Instead of water I used chicken bone broth. Can’t stress how delicious this soup is.
It’s 1/6 of the entire amount. It’s difficult to put an exact size on it as each batch varies. Thank you!
How big are the serving sizes that equate to the 185 calories? Thank you!
Delicious! Thanks for sharing!
2 cups. I apologize – I just updated the recipe card to state add in 2 cups water. Thank you!
Just like everyone else. How much water to add? Thank you,
How much water?
I want to make this recipe and bought all ingredients but it keeps saying add water but never indicates how much water to actually add ?
You did not add how much water to use. Otherwise it was great! Thanks!
Carrie, in the directions for the 20 minute chicken soup, you said,”add the water”, but water is not mentioned in ingredients. How much water?
How much water do you add?
My family loved this soup. My husband said it was the best chicken noodle soup he has tasted. Thanks for the great recipe!
How much water is added?
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How Much water is used in this recipe? water is not listed in the ingredient list but water is listed in the cooking part of the recipe. This is a must try recipe, it sounds yummy, Could you please e-mail me back with your answer on the water
Thanks for sending across so much warmth. This looks awesome. Very yummy!!