This chicken and pasta soup is comforting, simple to make and delicious. Serve it with avocado and lime wedges on the side.
I have been sick all week with a bad cold and cough. Whenever I am sick I miss my mom’s chicken noodle soup, but since she is not here to make it for me, I had to make it for myself. What’s better than a warm bowl of chicken soup when it’s cold outside and you don’t feel good? Nothing, 🙂 This sopa de pollo y pasta was absolutely delicious.
Ingredients You'll Need
The printable recipe with exact amounts and cooking directions is below.
Chicken: You can use drumsticks or chicken breast.
Stock: Chicken broth or stock.
Vegetables: Potato, carrots, peas, onion and garlic.
Pasta: Spaguetti or angel hair.
Spices: Cumin, Achiote or color
Herbs: Cilantro or parsley.
This chicken and pasta soup is the best for when you have a cold, or if you want something easy to eat during the week. It's perfect for lunch , dinner or appetizer.
Cook Notes
Store leftovers in the fridge in a sealed container up to 3 days. Add more chicken broth before reheating if the soup looks dry.
I like to serve my chicken noodle soup with avocado and lime juice for extra bright flavor.
How to Make Chicken Noodle Soup
Place the chicken in a medium pot and add the chicken stock. Bring to a boil and then reduce the heat to low. Add the rest of the ingredients, except the pasta and cilantro.
Cook for about 35 to 40 minutes or until chicken is completely tender. Remove the chicken from the pot and take the meat off the bone. Discard the bones and set the meat aside.
Add the pasta and cilantro to the soup. Cook for about 8 minutes more. Return the chicken to the pot and serve hot with lime and avocado on the side
Homemade Chicken Soup Recipes to Try
Chicken and Pasta Soup Recipe
Ingredients
- 6 chicken drumsticks bone in and skin off
- 8 cups chicken stock
- 1 medium potato peeled and diced
- ½ cup diced carrots
- ½ cup peas
- ½ cup spaguetti or angel hair pasta broken in small pieces
- ¼ cup finely chopped onion
- 1 garlic clove minced
- ½ teaspoon ground cumin
- ¼ teaspoon Achiote or color
- ¼ cup chopped fresh cilantro
- Lime and avocado for serving
Instructions
- Place the chicken in a medium pot and add the chicken stock. Bring to a boil and then reduce the heat to low. Add the rest of the ingredients, except the pasta and cilantro.
- Cook for about 35 to 40 minutes or until chicken is completely tender. Remove the chicken from the pot and take the meat off the bone. Discard the bones and set the meat aside.
- Add the pasta and cilantro to the soup. Cook for about 8 minutes more. Return the chicken to the pot and serve hot with lime and avocado on the side.
Joy
What a beautiful post. What a lovely soup. I put a link to it on my Comfort Food page!
Joy
PS I f you don't want it there, let me know and I will take it off.
Erica
Joy- Thank you!
Jason
Great recipe, thank you so much!
Sarah Naveen
yummy yumm chicken soup..Love the color.perfect for the climate here..
KennyT
Get well soon Erica! I want a bowl of hot soup whenever I'm sick too.
Lisa
I have been making simple chicken noodle soup for weeks now but I must try this next time. I love the idea of adding lime and avocado at the end--two of my very favorite garnishes. Then again, I think they go with pretty much everything.
karen
Mmm, this looks so good! We've been eating a lot of soup so far this winter, but I haven't made chicken noodle yet!
Jhonny Walker
wow..my kind of soup...I want this right away 🙂
Oysterculture
What yummy looking soup, I hope it did the trick and you are feeling better. Not sure what the weather is like where you are, but it is cold and damp here, the kind of weather where chicken soup is a must!
Sook
I'm sorry you've been sick! It has been so cold lately even here in CA and I've been craving soup every night too! Your chicken noodle soup looks so beautiful! I still haven't made homemade chicken noodle soup - I know, I'm lame! I will have to save the recipe so I can make it one night. 🙂 Feel better soon!
Luigi
Nothing like chicken soup to help clear a cold or make the flu feel better. Hope you are 100% again very soon. This looks delicious, and slightly different to how we make it. Interesting recipe.
Swapna Raghu Sanand
Hope you feel better soon. Enjoy the chicken soup and recover fast.
Simply Life
OH YUM! I'd love a bowl of this soup on a cold day like today!
Erica
Thank you guys for the wonderful comments! I appreciate it.
Devon
That achiote makes everything look so delicious.
pigpigscorner
A huge bowl of hot noodle soup is always welcome =)
Chris
That soup is a thing of beauty! What kind of lighting did you use and did you up the saturation? Looks great.
Erica
Chris- Thank you! I use natural light.
Ivy
Hope you are feeling much better now. Chicken soup is the best medicine for colds and love the way you have prepared it.
Noni
Thank you so much for this recipe! I made this soup for dinner tonight to the delight of my husband and daughter. Everyone had two bowls....Thanks again and I hope you are feeling much better today.
Erica
Noni- Thank you so much for the feedback!
monicajane
hope you're feeling better...that soup should have certainly helped...
your photos are always so gorgeous...I aspire to such beauty
vinolia
the soup looks warm filling and delicious; hope you get well soon!!!
Taste Traveller
This looks delicious! I hope you feel better soon! 🙂
Andrea
I am from Colombia and I am ashamed to tell you that I don't know how to cook, but I am willing to learn. That's one of my new year's resolutions. I will be visiting your blog often. Everything looks muy rico, especially the hot dogs,,, OMG. Ya me dio hambre.
Amelia
This look great but what if I dont have achiote or coloring? Will it still come out just as good? I have the sazon goya with azafran and without? will that work? Its the only think I have that has color. My husband is sick and I would love to make him this 🙂 Thank YOU
Erica
Amelia- Use the sazon goya with azafran.
Jeanette
This looks beautiful, with the achiote and cilantro, how special. Thank you for the recipe.
carmen
just love this website. thanks for the wonderful colombian recipes.
Chelsie
Fantastic as always!!! Your recipes never fail me! I married into a Colombian family and you sure help make me look good! 🙂 Thanks so much for doing what you do!!!
Alan Bowman
Greetings from Spain and Feliz Año Nuevo
This is much like Sopa Picadillo that we have here, which uses fideo (angel hair pasta,) a chopped hard-boiled egg and either pieces of cooked chicken or pieces of jamon iberico (Iberian ham). The starch may be replaced (according to taste) by pieces of boiled potato or large croutons. It is my first choice as a starter when eating out as is arroz con leche as a dessert.
Anonymous
yum yum
Mark
Delicious! Added about a cup of chopped spinach I had frozen, and a couple packets of Goya Sazon w achiote in place of the achiote. tablespoon of cumin, cuz we love cumin & added a tablespoon of oregano.
Mark
I also used Zucchini pasta . My wife (from Santa Marta) loved it