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Chicken Escarole Soup
Chicken Escarole Soup is your childhood in a bowl. It is hot, it is comforting, and it is healthy!
When I was little and home sick from school my mom would make me chicken soup. Back then it was just water, a bouillon cube, and little pastina shaped like tear drops. She also like to add some parmigiano reggiano but back then I would refuse to touch anything with cheese! A few minutes before the soup was ready she would call me off my snuggly couch to say my magic spells. These were the days way before “Sabrina, the Teenage Witch” (which I am still bitter about, by the way) and somehow I thought I could do magic. My mom said the soup wouldn’t be good unless I said my spells so I would stand on a chair, wave my hands over the pot, and whisper funny little rhymes until I felt the soup had enough magic.
It always did.
This soup might not have the same mystery magic of my childhood soup, but it is full of yummy vegetables. Enjoy!
Chicken Escarole Soup
Serves 4
Ingredients:
1 tbs olive oil
2 chicken cutlets (1/2 lb total)
4 cups chicken broth
1 leek, diced
1 carrot, peeled and diced
2 cups water
2 small white potatoes, peeled and diced
1 head escarole, cleaned and chopped
Directions:
Heat olive oil in a soup pot over medium high heat. Add the chicken cutlets and cook 5 minutes on each side. Remove and add a splash of chicken broth to deglaze the pan. Add the leek and carrot and saute over medium heat until slight softened. Dice the chicken and return it to the pan, along with the rest of the broth, diced potatoes, and water. Simmer over medium low heat for 20 minutes. Add the escarole 10 minutes before serving. Serve with a bit of grated parmigiano reggiano or black pepper.
this dose look like a perfect feel-good soup! question – are you still doing your “no sweets”? i’d love to hear how that is going!
@Lauren at KeepItSweet, Wellllll I am still much more conscious than I was before, but I AM having sweets when I want them… I will do a follow up on this next week, but basically doing no sweets for about 2 weeks (with a break for the Foodbuzz Festival where I only had 3 bites of sweets the whole weekend) really worked for me. I no longer am addicted to sweets, but I will admit that every afternoon I have a small something if I want it, which usually ends up being about 3 times a week! And that is a big improvement from before!
@RhodeyGirlTests, thanks for the response! i realized my night-time sweet eating is getting out of control recently and would love some of your tips on cutting back.
Lovely! And comforting.
I hope all is well with you! I’ve been out of the blogging loop! I hope PB’s marathon went well! (I did the half..) and was looking for him at the finish line! I missed him.. although, I missed my own husband’s finish, too. Eek.
Best to you. <3
Looks like a wonderful and tasty soup! I love how comforting soups are in winter and how they always bring back childhood memories!
LOVE your stories! PLEASE tell me you said a spell over your”adult” chicken soup 😉
Fantastic recipe! Can’t wait to try this one.
I think I will try this next week. I made a pot of lentil soup with carrots and fine bulgur this morning. I topped it with a dollop of plain yogurt.