Make Cream of Chicken Soup in 4 Simple Steps

Ingredients

• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 3.5 tbsp unsalted butter
• ½ cup flour
• 1 garlic cloveminced
• ½ small brown onionfinely chopped
• 1 small carrotdiced
• ½ red capsicum/bell pepperfinely chopped
• 1 small celery stickdiced
• 500 ml chicken stock/brothpreferably low sodium
• 750 ml Milk
• ½ tsp salt
• ¼ tsp Garlic Powder
• ¼ tsp onion powder
• ¼ tsp Dried Thyme
• ¼ tsp black pepper
• ¾ cup frozen peas
• 1 cup cooked chicken breastsdiced or shredded

Let’s cook

1. Take a large, deep-bottomed pan. Add some oil in the pan and heat it over medium-high flame. Then add onion and garlic to the pan and sauté for 2 minutes. Let the onion turn translucent. The garlic should turn aromatic. Then add the vegetables such as carrots, celery and capsicum. Sauté the vegetables for a minute. Let the vegetables soften.

2. Add some butter to the pan and let it melt. Then add the flour until it is mixed. Keep stirring for a minute. Then add the chicken broth and stir until the flour is completely mixed. Add the milk and keep stirring.

3. Add garlic powder, onion powder and dried thyme to the mixture. Give it a stir and let it thicken.

4. Add the cooked chicken and peas and give the soup a good stir. Bring it to a simmer and let it bubble. Once the soup has thickened as per your preference, add salt and pepper and give it a stir. Add some croutons, garnish with thyme and serve hot.