chicken stew recipe
Budget Recipe: Chicken Stew
Chicken stew is such a budget recipe in addition to being a great comfort food. My kids love it, and the eldest two requested it for their last birthdays. I think that is so funny. Rather than pizza or hot dogs, my kids want chicken stew. I am not complaining though! It is fun to cook healthy foods for them. Here is my recipe. Note: This was enough to feed 40 people with leftovers . . . SO, you will probably want to reduce the amount. I reduced the serving size to 8 in the printable recipe below.
Chicken Stew Ingredients
2 rotisserie chickens, skin removed and discarded, meat removed and chopped
15 onions chopped
20 carrots chopped
1 quart greens
2 cups navy beans (I just had these left over beans, and wanted to use them up.)
12 white potatoes
8 sweet potatoes
chicken broth
5 T sea salt
5 T pepper
5 T Lawry’s seasoning salt
3 T thyme
3 T Parsley
1 cup fresh basil, chopped
1/2 gallon milk
2 cups instant potatoes (These are easy to make if you have a dehydrator. Just shred your potatoes, and dehydrate well. You can add these in shreds, or put them in a food processor, and pulse a few times. You only want to pulse these a few times though, because you don’t want them to stick together.)
I use the chicken bones to make chicken broth. I just add the bones, a couple of onions, a few carrots and 1/2 head of cabbage (since we aren’t celery fans) a few bay leaves and water to a pot. Bring the water to a boil, reduce heat and allow to simmer for a couple of hours. Drain the liquid, and you have chicken broth.
Saute the onions, carrots, potatoes and greens until the onions are translucent. (This helps your soup to cook more quickly. You can also skip this step and just allow the veggies to cook in the liquid.) Add the chicken and mix. I split the veggies and chicken into a couple of big stock pots. Cover the veggies with broth and bring to a simmer. Add all seasonings other than the fresh basil. Allow to simmer as long as you like (I think the longer the better, but you will want to simmer for at least 30 minutes to make sure that the potatoes are thoroughly cooked.) Once you are ready to eat, add the basil and milk to the pots. Just split the amount between the two. Then, add the powdered potatoes to thicken your soup. Mix well, and reheat then serve.
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- 1/2 rotisserie chicken, skin removed and discarded, meat removed and chopped
- 3 onions chopped
- 4 carrots chopped
- 1/2 cup cooked greens
- 1/4 cups navy beans (I just had these left over beans, and wanted to use them up. This is optional.)
- 2-3 white potatoes
- 1-2 sweet potatoes
- 4 cups chicken broth (This will depend on the size of your vegetables & chicken. You want to cover all of the vegetables an chicken completely with an extra half inch of liquid, then stop.)
- 1 T sea salt
- 1 T pepper
- 1 T Lawry’s seasoning salt
- 1/2 T thyme
- 1 T Parsley
- 1/3 cup fresh basil, chopped
- 1.5 cups milk
- 1/2 cup instant potatoes
- Saute the onions, carrots, potatoes and greens until the onions are translucent. (This helps your soup to cook more quickly. You can also skip this step and just allow the veggies to cook in the liquid.)
- Add the chicken and mix.
- Cover the veggies with broth and bring to a simmer.
- Add all seasonings other than the fresh basil.
- Allow to simmer as long as you like (I think the longer the better, but you will want to simmer for at least 30 minutes to make sure that the potatoes are thoroughly cooked.)
- Once you are ready to eat, add the basil and milk to the pots.
- Then, add the powdered potatoes to thicken your soup. You don’t want the stew too thick, so just add these slowly as you mix.
- Mix well, and reheat then serve.
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Do you think this would be freezeable?
I have canned this & frozen it. It works well both ways, but you do want to make sure that it is cooked before you can it. (-:
Or cannable. Seems to me if you didn’t cook everything totally done, you could can it.
This looks really good! I usually make chicken & wild rice soup so this would be a nice change. Thanks for the recipe!
It looks great! I’m going to try it as soon as the weather cools off.
Great, Kelli! I hope that you enjoy it! I love stews when the weather gets cooler!
Sounds fantastic…will have to pass it on the chef man in my house! :) POP ART MINIS
Thanks for linking your great post to FAT TUESDAY. Hope to see you next week!
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This sounds to wonderful. Cannot wait to try this recipe out. Come over and visit us. We have some terrific apple recipes this week.
I AM PRETTY HUNGRY RIGHT NOW AND THIS LOOKS LIKE IT WOULD FIT THE BILL! ANY LEFT OVERS?
Sounds like something my kids would enjoy! Thanks for sharing.
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Looks delish and I love the recipe card. Thanks for posting at the Rhinestone Beagle!
This looks heavenly.. love the addition of the sweet potatoes! I will have to try this for sure! Thanks so much for sharing with the Pink Hippo Party!
Rene, your Chicken Stew looks delicious, it is a great recipe. Hope you are having a great week end and thanks so much for sharing with Full Plate Thursday.
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That looks so super yummy! I would love it if you shared this, and/or whatever else you want, on my bloghop – Makin’ You Crave Monday, over at MrsHappyHomemaker.com!
Hi Rene! This chicken stew sounds scrumptious and super easy on the wallet. Thank you so much for linking up your post at Savvy HomeMade Monday and I hope you will come back and party again!
This sounds great! Probably the servings for 8 though, I don’t have too many opportunities to feed 40! ;o)
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Thanks so much, Emily! I am not sure which site you are from, but I would love to grab a button. Hopefully I will see it as I am hopping about the blogosphere today. (-:
Mmm…the perfect body and soul warming stew for these crisp autumn days!
LOVE that you take the time to put it into a printable recipe form! Thanks for that! :) Makes trying out your recipes so much easier! Thanks for sharing on Fancy This Fridays!
So glad that you like the recipe form! Thanks, Kassi!
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