Creamy Chicken & Mushroom Soup

This simple savoury soup takes less than 30 minutes from start to finish! If you just make this with mushrooms you can have this as a first course since it’s such a light soup, but to make it a little more substantial as a main dish, add some chicken breast. Still light at under 115 calories, you could easily serve this with a salad or half sandwich on the side. The recipe in the video is low fat and a great recipe to make if you like chicken soup.

Ingredients

• 4 cups water
• 3 tbsp flour
• 1 celery stalk, cut in half
• 5 oz shiitake mushrooms, sliced
• 8 oz baby mushrooms, sliced
• 4 tsp Chicken stock
• 2 tsp unsalted butter
• 7 oz skinless chicken breast
• 1 tbsp fresh parsley, chopped

Method

1. Place cold water and flour in a blender and blend until smooth; pour into a medium pot and set heat to medium.
2. Add celery, mushrooms, chicken stock and butter and bring to a boil.
3. Add chicken, cover and simmer on low 15 minutes, or until chicken is cooked through.
4. Remove chicken and set aside; continue to cook the remaining soup an additional 5 minutes, until vegetables are soft.
5. Place celery and 1 cup of soup into the blender; blend until smooth, then return to the pot and simmer a few minutes.
6. Shred or cut the chicken into small pieces and add back to the soup.
7. Garnish with fresh parsley.

Serves 4 – Serving Size: 1-1/2 cups – Nutrition Per Serving
Calories: 111.5, Fat: 3.4 g, Protein: 13.6 g, Carbohydrate: 12 g, Fibre: 0.9 g, Sugar: 1.4 g