Chicken and Noodles Recipe

This Chicken and Noodles Recipe is made using only a few simple ingredients such as cream of chicken soup, chicken, chicken broth, herbs and spices, and it’s ready in just 25 minutes!

 

This recipe ranks right up there in “chicken and noodle” recipe favorites, with the homemade chicken noodle soup and this easy chicken and dumplings recipe that I make.

Old-fashioned chicken and noodles is more of a pasta dish with a creamy sauce, instead of a soup recipe. I remember having this growing up at home, and even in the school cafeteria, served with these hot rolls.

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• Why This Recipe Works
• Ingredients Needed
• Substitutions
• Variations
• Step-by-Step
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• Recipe FAQs
• Storage
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Ingredients Needed

I’ve highlighted a couple of ingredients with some relevant notes. Aside from this, the ingredients needed are pretty basic.

• Chicken – The type of chicken you can use in this recipe, is up to you! Chicken breast, pulled chicken from a boiled chicken, rotisserie chicken (then you can boil the rotisserie chicken carcass), chicken thighs, or even leftover chicken. As long as it’s cooked shredded chicken, it will work!
• Chicken Broth – I tend to use homemade chicken broth for this recipe because after I boil a whole chicken, and use the meat for this dish, I have the broth too. (Storebought chicken broth is totally fine too, and I do use that sometimes.)
• Garlic – I use the jarred, minced garlic but you can definitely chop your own garlic cloves if you prefer or even use garlic powder if that’s all you have on hand. (You just won’t saute the garlic powder… but rather add it in with the salt and pepper.)

Substitutions

If needed, substitutions can be made, and here a few that may come in handy:

• Chicken – if you find that you have leftover turkey from Thanksgiving or any holiday dinner, this works wonderfully in this dish, instead of chicken.
• Noodles – store-bought egg noodles are the classic choice for this recipe. However, you can use a different type of noodle, like making homemade egg noodles or some type of homemade noodles if you prefer. Or, using elbow macaroni, bow-tie pasta, or even fettuccini noodles could be a substitute if needed.

Variations

Although we love this recipe just the way it is, there are some ways you can add some variety to it; such as:

• Vegetable Chicken and Noodles – Adding frozen mixed vegetables in with the broth, allowing them to cook through, is a great way to add vegetables to your dish.
• Condensed Soup Flavor – Although I haven’t tried this yet, you may be curious about using cream of celery or cream of mushroom soup instead of cream of chicken. I don’t see why this wouldn’t turn out ok but it may have more of a beef stroganoff with cream of mushroom flavor, than the flavor of the chicken.

Step-by-Step

I’ve shared the process of this recipe and you’ll be able to see just how easy it is to throw this classic comfort food dish together, that the whole family will love.

This recipe is broken into 3 components:

• saute the onion and garlic
• add liquid to build base
• finish with tender chicken and noodles

*Be sure to see the recipe card below for the full ingredients list & instructions!*

The beautiful thing about this dish is that it’s a one-pot dish, so make sure you start with a large pot or large dutch oven to fit all of the ingredients, including the four cups of chicken stock.

STEP 1. Saute onion in butter. Melt butter over medium heat and then add onion and cook for 5 minutes. (Image 1).

STEP 2. Saute garlic. Next, add the garlic and stir to combine. (Image 2).

STEP 3. Add liquid. Pour in condensed soups (Image 3) and broth (Image 4), and then turn up the heat to medium high heat.

Tip: The broth is what will cook the noodles so there’s no need to pre-cook the egg noodles before adding to the pot.

STEP 4. Add noodles. When soups/broth starts to boil, add in the in dry egg noodles (Image 5). Turn the heat down to medium low heat, stir and cook the noodles for about 10 minutes or until al dente (Image 6).

STEP 5. Add meat and spices. Next, pour in the chicken (Image 7), salt and pepper (Image 8) and then stir to combine.

STEP 6. Simmer. Cook for an additional couple of minutes to allow chicken to heat through (Images 9 & 10).

Recipe FAQs

Storage

Simply store any leftovers in an airtight container (once it has cooled) for 3-5 days.

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