Creative Cooking and Craft Concoctions

Homemade Noodle Soup Mixture

Don’t you wish you could have a dry soup mixture on hand when you have leftover turkey or chicken. Keep this in your pantry for those last minute soups on a cold day!

Noodle Soup

• 1  1/2 cups small noodles (like alphabet noodles or 2 handfuls thin egg noodles)
• 2 bay leafs
• 1/2 tsp dried parsley
• 1 tsp dried dill
• 1 tsp celery flakes
• 2 TB low sodium chicken granules
• 4 TB dried onion flakes
• 1 tsp garlic powder
• 1/2 tsp pepper

1  – 14 1/2 oz can low sodium chicken broth
2 – 3 cups diced cooked chicken or turkey

Combine all seasonings well. Store in ziplock bag. Place this bag in container with noodles on top and store in pantry till ready to use. When ready to use, bring 6-8 cups water and can of chicken broth to boil. Stir in packet of seasonings. Cover, reduce heat and simmer for 30 minutes. Discard bay leafs and stir in noodles, diced meat and any cooked vegetables you choose.  Simmer for additional 10 minutes until heated through.

Use the alphabet noodles available at Woodman’s to get those grandchildren to eat their soup!