Both my husband and my toddler have come down with a cold… poor babies! I had to get these guys better for their sake and for mine. So of course this called for a big pot of old fashion, soul warming chicken noodle soup! I highly recommend this super simple take on the most effective natural remedy there is to fight off any nasty cold. Enjoy… in good and bad health!

Ingredients:
1 Whole Rotisserie chicken from your grocery store. (I used a 40 oz chicken)
4 quarts of chicken stock (2 boxes)
8 cups of water
1 yellow onion -chopped
3 cloves of garlic- minced
4 carrots- sliced thin
4 celery stalks- sliced thin
8 oz of egg noodles
½ cup fresh parsley- chopped
3 sprigs of fresh thyme
2 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp butter
1 tsp salt
½ tsp black pepper
A pinch or so of chayenne pepper
Cheesecloth
String

Directions:

In Dutch oven or large pot melt 2 tbsp of olive oil and 1 tbsp of butter over medium heat. Add chopped onion, garlic, celery, and carrot. Season with salt, black pepper, Cheyenne pepper and let cook with lid on for about 5 minutes or until vegetables are soft and onions are clear.

While veggies are sweating out, cut out the breast from the rotisserie chicken, chop and set aside. I prefer to have white meat in my soup, but if you like dark meat, you can remove that from chicken as well. Take the remaining bird, wrap with cheese cloth, and tie at top with string to secure chicken inside the cloth.

**Many of the medicinal parts of the chicken are in the bones and skin, personally I don’t like having this in my soup and it’s quite a task to try to scoop it all out. By containing the chicken in the cheesecloth you are allowing all the nutrients to soak into the broth and will be able to remove it easily and completely when soup is done.

Add the 2 boxes of chicken stock and 8 cups of water to pot. Add parsley and thyme. Place wrapped chicken in the broth and allow to simmer on med-high heat for about an hour to an hour and a half.

Remove wrapped chicken. Add egg noodles and chopped white meat. Cook noodles in the soup for about 10 minutes then remove from heat and serve.