Homemade cream of chicken soup recipe

Recently I’ve grown to dislike canned cream of chicken soup.  Maybe I’ve read too many posts on the internet talking about the additives in canned goods, or maybe I’ve convinced myself making homemade cream of chicken soup saves me money.  Or it could just be my cream of chicken soup recipe tastes better than the canned cream of chicken soup. I’ll go with that.  It sounds more likely to convince you to make it. Pick the reason, but this is one of my Tried and True Recipes.

My recipe is based on The Humbled Homemaker’s recipe, but I modified it slightly.

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Hi, Future Ticia 2025 is updating this with my current logo, and now I’ve made this recipe so often that I don’t even have to look at the recipe to make it. I’ll comment with a few of the changes I’ve made now.

Cream of Chicken soup ingredients

• 1/3 cup butter
• 2-3 tablespoons flour
• salt and pepper to taste (I usually shake both of them over my pan a couple of times)
• about 2 cups of chicken broth (I just grab a mason jar full, which is slightly less than 2 cups)
•  garlic (I scoop out a spoonful of pre-minced garlic, and as I do I say, “have to keep the vampires away”)- future Ticia now likes using fresh garlic when I’m not being lazy, about 2-4 cloves minced up nice and small, or if it’s a hectic day I’ll just add in several generous shakes of garlic powder
• 2/3 cup milk- Future Ticia 2025 more often than not uses heavy whipping cream because I love the richness it creates, but I’ll admit it makes the homemade cream of chicken soup rather thick, so it will not save well if you do this.

Step by step to make your cream of chicken soup recipe (with hilarious commentary)

1.  Melt butter.  Do not walk away while the butter is melting or you will have to throw out your scorched butter.

Came back up here to add in, this is where I add in the garlic.  You wouldn’t know I forgot to tell you this step, but I told you.  This is also why I don’t give verbal directions, I always forget steps.  Also why I don’t take pictures of the step by step.

I bet you didn’t know you could scorch butter.

2.  Whisk in the flour (I like this silicon one because it doesn’t scratch my poor-abused pan).  Then pour in the chicken broth and whisk all that together. [Future Ticia 2025 has had to replace that pan because twice because it was that abused, admittedly the second time was because the dog knocked it on the floor and the handle broke off.]

3. Heat up to a low simmer, and remember you were supposed to add the milk.

4.  Add the milk.

I told you hilarious commentary, if you aren’t laughing what is wrong with you?

5.  Stir your soon-to-be yummy cream of chicken soup and deeply inhale the yummy fumes aroma.

Fumes do not sound yummy, I changed it to aroma.

Murmur to yourself, mmmm garlic.

6.  Once it has thickened enough, take it off the heat and watch it thicken up more than you expected. Mumble to yourself this is why you should carefully measure and not just add in a pile of flour.

I usually double or triple this recipe, and then whatever I don’t use for the recipe I was making that night I jar up and freeze it to remember to defrost about 5 minutes before I need to use it……  I’m not good at remembering things ahead of time.

Cream of Chicken Soup

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This delicious cream of chicken soup recipe is quick and easy to make and instantly makes so many other recipes so much better.

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 10 minutes

Total Time 15 minutes

Ingredients

• 1/3 cup butter
• 2-3 tablespoons flour
• salt and pepper to taste
• about 2 cups of chicken broth
• 2-4 cloves minced garlic or 2 teaspoons garlic powder
• 2/3 cup milk

Instructions

1. Melt butter and cook the garlic in it. Then whisk in the butter.
2. Slowly stir in the broth, add salt and pepper to taste, then bring to boil.
3. Add the milk then reduce to simmer for approximately five minutes.

Where do I use my homemade cream of chicken soup?

In everything?

That’s not a useful answer?  Okay, then let me look through my recipes…..

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• Crockpot chicken parmesan
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