Creamy Chicken Soup recipe
So, this week we're doing another warm and hearty recipe on our channel, because it's been freakin' cold. We had some leftover roast chicken, so hubby decided it was a good time to make some nice warm soup again! This time a rich and creamy soup with mushrooms. As always, this is sort of a template of a recipe, and there is a lot of room for customization and personalization. You can change the herbs and veggies, you can leave out the mushrooms if you're not a fan, you can strain it if you want a silky smooth soup instead of one with a bit of texture left, whatever you like! It's a very simple recipe.
The soup is thickened with a roux, but we sort of cheat it a little. Normally, we'd cook the roux in a separate pan and add it to the soup, but in this recipe, we heat up the veggies in butter, and then add the flour on top of that. The flour and butter cook together, and then when the stock is added, the cheater roux starts to cook in earnest and thicken the soup. You can see in the video when we lift the lid and the soup has become frothy after adding the stock, that's the flour of the roux cooking.
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