Gluten free Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup is ready in under 30 minutes and made with fridge and pantry staples. The recipe has been in my family for generations!
“I’ve tried several different GF chicken noodle soup recipes. Yours by far is the best! It’s really simple and delicious. I think sometimes people try to make this soup too complicated. Less is more. Great job.”
My Mom got hit with the flu a couple weeks ago and the second I hung up the phone with her sounding weak as a kitten I sprang into action making a huge pot of Gluten Free Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup from memory, which I delivered less than an hour later to her doorstep.
Actually, I can’t say it’s my recipe. It’s actually my Mom’s, which she got from her Mom (aka my Grandma)!
That’s right, this Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup is so good that the recipe has been handed down through three generations. It’s the most simple homemade chicken noodle soup you could ever imagine, ready in 30 minutes, made with fridge and pantry staples, and soothes the achy/sick/sad soul.
Super easy to make gluten-free, too!
Watch How to Make It
We ate this soup every time we visited my Grandparent’s house in Ohio – no matter the time of year, my Grandma always had a pot of this on the stove when we arrived.
No fresh herbs, no fuss – just everyday ingredients coming together to create one of the best bowls of soup on the planet.
Like a little black dress, everyone needs a go-to, committed to memory, Chicken Noodle Soup recipe to pull out at a moment’s notice, and I hope this will become yours. It’s one of my all-time favorite soup recipe here on IGE, and we truly make it on repeat all year long (soup season is all seasons, if you ask me!)
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How to Make Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup
Start by heating butter and olive oil in a large soup pot or Dutch oven over medium heat. Add carrots, celery, and onion or shallot, season with homemade seasoned salt and pepper, then saute until the vegetables are tender, about 10 minutes. Add minced garlic then saute for 1 more minute.
If I’m making this soup for someone who’s under the weather I’ll usually double up on the butter to make it extra decadent and comforting. It’s the right thing to do.
Next add chicken stock – homemade Chicken Stock if you can swing it! – then turn the heat up and bring to a boil.
Meanwhile, chop chicken breasts into bite-sized pieces, season with salt and pepper, then add to the boiling chicken broth RAW along with gluten free pasta.
My Grandma always added spaghetti noodles broken in half to her soup. Isn’t that great? I’ve used pretty much every pasta shape under the sun in this soup over the years, but for these photos I broke gluten free spaghetti into small pieces in honor of my Grandma.
Thinly sliced Gluten Free Egg Noodles are an excellent choice too!
Turn the heat down to medium then simmer until the pasta is cooked through. The chicken should be perfectly cooked by that point too. Ladle the steamy soup into bowls then devour. Like I said, simple and soul-satisfying!
More Cozy Soup Recipes
- Gluten Free Lasagna Soup
- Chicken Stew
- Loaded Baked Potato Soup
- Pastina Soup
- Crock Pot Chicken and Wild Rice Soup
- Hamburger Soup
- Chicken and Rice Soup
- Italian Wedding Soup
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 Tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
- 1 Tablespoon butter
- 1 large or 2 medium carrots, peeled then thinly sliced
- 1 rib celery, sliced
- 1 shallot or 1/2 small onion, chopped
- salt and pepper
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 64 oz chicken stock, plus more for reheating
- 1 chicken breast, chopped into bite-sized pieces
- 8 oz gluten free spaghetti, or any short-cut pasta, broken into pieces
Directions
- Heat olive oil and butter in a large soup pot or Dutch Oven over medium heat. Add carrots, celery, and shallot, season with salt and pepper, then saute until tender, 10 minutes. Add garlic then saute for 1 more minute. Add chicken broth then bring to a boil.
- Season chicken with salt and pepper then add to boiling chicken broth RAW along with the pasta. Turn heat down to medium then simmer, stirring occasionally, until pasta is cooked through. Taste then adjust salt and pepper if necessary and then serve.
Notes
- Add more chicken broth when reheating as noodles will continue to soak up broth.
Nutrition
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Kristin, I just made your Chicken Noodle Soup recipe in my Instant Pot and it was soooo good. I had to adjust just a couple things and it turned out amazing! My hubby just came back in for his second bowl. :D (I also added about a half of a jalapeño for a lil’ kick. Thank you so much for posting this!
Thanks for the recipe! The soup was delicious and I will be making it again. Perfect for a cold and rainy January day!
Thank you for this amazing soup! I made it last night and my boyfriend (who claims to not like soup) couldn’t stop eating it… and didn’t believe I made it myself. I made it extra chunky by doubling the chicken & veggies and using GF orzo. I have a feeling that was the first batch of many!
Love a good soup conversion story!! So glad you BOTH liked it, Alyssa!
I’m going to ask the DUMBEST question… Is the chicken cooked before putting in the broth or does it cook in the broth? I’m a newbie at cooking (pathetic, I know) and I don’t want to get it wrong. Thanks!
Oh my gosh, not pathetic at ALL! The chicken goes in uncooked and will cook as the broth boils. Let me know if any other questions at all!
Thank you for yr amazing receipies….which always d best :)
Hi there,, Ive made homemade stock for years the old fashioned way, but I tried this one and LOVE it so quick and easy, and the GF noodles(barilla brand are great) Question.. Would love to make a bigger batch. Does this freeze well, without the noodles of course? would you still cook the breasts and freeze with the broth? tnx Sue
I think this recipe would freeze just fine with the chicken and no noodles! :)
Since discovering I have CD a few months ago I’ve been trying to recreate my list of easy to go to family favorites. I tried this over the weekend and it was delicious!
One thing I’ve really been missing is Club Crackers…. your photo shows this soup with what appears to be a butter cracker, can you please tell me that this is in fact a gluten free butter cracker? If so what brand and where can I find it? I’m an Iowa girl and would gladly make the trip to DM to pick it up if I can’t find it on the net :) Thank you!
I’m so sorry to hear about your diagnosis, Angel, but I think you’ll find that you can recreate many if not all your favorite comfort foods to be GF! :) The crackers in the photo are Glutino brand, I believe. Definitely no Keebler crub cracker, but they do in a pinch. ;)
Can you call it homemade chicken noodle soup when you use boxed broth? Despite the boxed broth, it makes me want it right now.
can you tell me how you make chicken broth at home, an easy method?
i tried some store bought, they all have yellowish color, therefore, the soups have darkish yello color
Your mom shared this recipe with me years ago… and it is not only a favorite of mine but of the many people I have shared it with over the years! My daughters love it too! : )
Love it, Anne!! :) You really can’t go wrong with this easy recipe!
this looks so yummy. My husband loves chicken soup so we will be making this very sound
Oh my gosh! I too am an Iowa girl and have eaten this soup all of my life. I had forgotten about this recipe until I ran across your site. Now I will put this recipe in my forever recipe collection so I won’t forget it again.
I just want to make sure I have this right, you don’t cook the chicken then put it in the broth, it cooks directly in with the broth? If I had found this like 3 months ago, I wouldn’t have questioned it, but my husband and I just found out that I’m pregnant and I’m worried about the cross-contamination with the chicken being cooked with everything else. Can it be cooked separate?
You can cook it separate if you want but it would be the same as cooking it in the broth (it’s just a poaching method vs sauting or grilling, etc.) It’s basically making a homemade chicken broth! :)