Low LOW sodium mostly home made chicken vegatable soup

amyoliver85

I recently created this recipe for me and my fiance and we love it.

I was looking for a way to cook us some home made chicken vegetable soup and was having a lot of trouble getting low sodium alternatives to the traditional bullion.

But, I finally did it and here is the recipe...please follow pretty closely, or you'll end up with watery soup:

1- carton Pacific Foods low sodium chicken broth (only 70mg sodium per serving!)
3- carrots, chopped or medium sliced
3- sticks of celery, chopped or medium sliced
1/4 cup onion, finely chopped
1 tsp. onion powder or more to taste
1 tbsp. pepper or more to taste
2.5 cups water
2 boneless skinless chicken breasts, chopped into 1/4 inch size pieces or smaller and COOKED
alternatively, shred the pieces into large shreds for a different texture

Combine all ingredients in a large pot. Bring to a boil. Let boil for 3 minutes. Turn down to low or simmer. Let cook for 15-20 minutes.

This makes about 7 servings of soup. If you want to make a larger batch, Do double the items or more, however much you want to make.

This will keep well in the refrigerator, but I don't believe it will freeze well, so make sure you are going to eat it all.

You can find the Pacific Foods broths at your grocery store in the organic section of the staple foods. Or you should be able to get it at Whole Foods. I have seen it at both Kroger Supermarkets (Smith's here in Utah) and at Wal-mart. It comes in large cartons for larger quantity cooking but it also comes in 4 packs of small containers. They literally intend for people to drink this stuff from this mini cartons like it's a juice box, but I found they work REALLY well when you want to make smaller amounts of soup.

Ely82010

Thank you! I love soups and I also have problems with the sodium. Even Swanson low sodium chicken, beef, or vegetable broth are high in sodium. I always reduce the amount of broth and increase the water. Have to use lots of other spices to compensate, but it works.

I will look for the Pacific Food broth in the organic section just as you mentioned. Have you tried to add a some sweet potato or regular potato to make the soup less watery?

amyoliver85

Oh...and so everyone knows. I have posted the NUTRITION INFO in the Database under:

Amy Brown's Homemade Chicken Vegetable Soup.

Happy cooking!

amyoliver85

Hi!

I haven't tried potatoes, but I don't see why it wouldn't work. This soup is extremely forgiving. My fiance has added things like tomato paste and green bell peppers and zucchini to make it work for his diet. So I think it would work well. You would probably want to cook it longer though to let the potatoes get soft or pre-cook the potatoes for about 20 minutes. Though, honestly, I would recommend investing $10 in a pasta boat and steam a potato in about 10 minutes that way to get it soft for cooking in soup.

I just posted a reply with the name I have it in the database if you decide to make it so you can get the nutrition info. I try to be really precise with my measurements so it's reality and not kind of close.

amyoliver85

You can also go to http://www.pacificfoods.com/ and buy it online.

Ely82010

Thanks to all your posts!