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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This is so easy and delicious. I’ll break my noodles into smaller pieces next time. Maybe some will stay in the spoon. ?
Haha, I realize it’s a bit cumbersome. That’s just how my Grandma served it – for reasons unknown – so it’s a nostalgia thing for me! ;)
I make a very similar chicken soup, loaded with vegetables. Instead of noodles of any form, I use thinly sliced kale added the last 10 minutes of simmering. No noodles involved, but you get the mouth feel (and slurpability) of noodles, plus the added health benefit of kale.
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I’ve been on the hunt for a simple recipe for chicken noodle soup — this was so good! Great recipe!
Before I became gluten free 6 years ago, I had an amazing chicken noodle soup recipe that has homemade noodles and I used rotisserie chicken. My secret ingredient was season salt. This was really good and all my kids ate it. Next time I’m going to try it with rotisserie chicken.
Did a search for chicken soup and found yours. I The soup just finished simmering on the stove and we tried it. It was a hug hit with both my husband and me. So easy, so simple..just true chicken soup goodness!
Forgot to give it the five stars it so richly deserves!!
Have you changed the recipe? I have been making this soup for a while & remember it having frozen noodles. When I pulled it up today to make for a friend it has gluten free pasta. We are not a gluten free family so I had to make it from memory. ?
Oops forgot my stars!
Thank you SO much, Dawn! Believe it or not my Grandma usually only broke her spaghetti in half so I can relate to your spoon struggles! ;)
LOVE LOVE EASY EASY! This was super easy and very tasty! My only mistake is I did not break the spaghetti small enough for my spoon! Lesson learned! And loved the gluten free noodles in it! Test your noodles, mine were a bit al dente and I loved them!
This is the best soup ever! My family loves it!
Was hit pretty hard and fast by a cold and this really saved me. I had just enough energy to make it and it was so good! When you’re sick – you just want the simple stuff and this was perfect! I liked adding a little extra butter (bc you’re right! it is the right thing to do). And I’m GF so it was a bonus! I put it in mason jars to take to work and it was perfect. The only thing that got me through those days. Thanks very much!
Hi there! I’ve been using yourChicken noodle soup recipe with the frozen egg noodles for years and thought I had it pinned. I tried searching on google for it because I thought I had read it was something your grandma made and it was comforting so I tried googling with that and the pin has the old image still but When I click on the pin it brought me to the gluten free recipe. Is there a way I can access that still? I mostly have it memorized I just can never remember how long to cook the soup once the noodles go in. Love your recipes! Thank you in advance
I cook my GF noodles in a separate pan, strain them, and add them to the serving bowls. Then I top them with the soup. No overcooked noodles when soup is reheated and no “pasty” taste from my corn rice noodles.