Chicken Sopas (Chicken Macaroni Soup)

First,  if you have kids who don’t like to eat veggies, you can grate the veggies for them or slice them very thinly, or even chop. This is a good way to let your kids start eating veggies.

This dish has been my favorite since I was a kid. My mom used to buy an instant soup mix and cooked it for me. Well, I can still buy one if I wanted to, but you so feel good when you can do better than these instant foods. Anyway, I have two recipes here. The first one, I used Campbell’s Cream of Chicken and the second one, I just used what I had in my kitchen.

Chicken Sopas (Chicken Macaroni Soup)

Ingredients:

• 200g chicken breast, cooked and shredded
• 250g macaroni pasta, cooked according to instructions
• Cooking oil
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 medium onion, chopped
• ½ cup carrots, diced
• 1 cup cabbage
• 1 can (1 ½ cup) Campbell’s Cream of Chicken
• 2 cups milk
• Salt and pepper, to taste

Instructions

1. Boil chicken breast, let it cool and shred. Meanwhile, cook the pasta according to instructions and set aside.
2. In a cooking pot, sauté your garlic in oil and wait for a minute before adding the onion.
3. Add the shredded chicken, cream of chicken and milk and let it simmer for five minutes.
4.  Add carrots, cabbage and pasta and simmer again for another five minutes.
5. Add salt and pepper to taste.

Here’s another recipe:

Ingredients:

• 200 g chicken breast, cooked and shredded
• 250g macaroni pasta, cooked according to instructions
• 1 tbsp butter, or oil
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 medium onion, chopped
• ½ cup carrots, diced
• 1 cup cabbage
• 1 ½ cups evaporated milk
• 2 cups whole milk
• 1 cup chicken stock or 1 chicken cube dissolved in 1 cup warm water
• Salt and pepper, to taste

Instructions

1. Boil chicken breast, let it cool and shred. Meanwhile, cook the pasta according to instructions and set aside.
2. In a cooking pot, sauté your garlic in butter (or oil) and cook until fragrant. Add the onions and cook until translucent.
3. Add the shredded chicken, carrots and chicken stock. Let it simmer for five minutes.
4. Add cabbage, pasta, two kinds of milk and simmer again for another five minutes.
5. Add salt and pepper to taste.

Both are yummy, in my opinion.