Creamy Chicken And Wild Rice Soup

Creamy chicken and wild rice soup are a delicious and hearty fall dish that you are sure to love. The wild rice is an exotic ingredient that will give the soup something special and differentiate it from your typical, boring chicken soup. Join Eric from Simply Elegant Home Cooking as he demonstrates how easy it is to put together this hearty chicken soup recipe!

To get the best results, Eric recommends using a roasted chicken and homemade stock. To see how both of these recipes are prepared, be sure to check out the links below!

Oven Roasted Chicken:

Homemade Chicken Stock From Chicken Carcass:

Ingredients:

-8 cups homemade chicken stock

-1 cup wild rice

-4 celery stalks

-1 medium onion

-2 medium carrots

-2 cloves garlic

-5 sprigs fresh thyme

-1 cup heavy cream

-4 cups chopped up roast chicken breast

-1/4 cup all-purpose flour

-4 tablespoons butter

-Salt and pepper to taste

Recipe:

-Chop the onion, carrots, and celery into fairly large pieces. You don’t want them too small as they will cook in the soup for about 45 minutes.

-Mince the garlic with a knife or in a garlic press.

-Remove the leaves from the thyme sprigs.

-In a large pot, heat up the butter over medium heat. Once the butter is gently sizzling, add in the carrots, onion, celery, garlic, and thyme. Add a little bit of salt and pepper and gently sauté for about 5 minutes until vegetables have softened.

-After 5 minutes, add in the flour and turn heat down to medium low. Use a spatula to stir, continuously moving around the butter and flour mixture to ensure it doesn’t burn. This process is called making a roux.

-After about 3 minutes of gently cooking the roux, slowly add in the homemade chicken stock, only a little at a time. Be sure to continue stirring constantly as you add to end up with a smooth result with no lumps.

-Once all of the stock has been added, turn the heat up to medium high until a simmer is reached. Once the simmer is close, add in the wild rice and reduce heat back to low or medium low as required to maintain a gentle simmer.

-Cook the wild rice for a total of about 45-50 minutes. Add in the chicken after about 30-35 minutes. Once the rice starts to burst out of its shell, it is about 5-10 minutes from being done.

-Once the wild rice pieces have burst out of their shells, add in the heavy cream slowly while stirring. Continue to cook for about 5 minutes, or until the creamy chicken and wild rice soup has reached your desired level of thickness.

-Taste for salt and pepper, serve, and enjoy!