Chicken and Wild Rice Soup

Chicken and Wild Rice Soup

This is one of my new favorite soups and it's fairly easy to make.  I'll add a picture next time I make it :)

Ingredients:

1/4 c. butter
1 c. chopped onion
1 6oz. box Uncle Ben's Original Long Grain and Wild Rice
1 rotisserie chicken deboned and shredded
1 48oz. carton (6 cups) chicken broth
1 4oz. can mushroom pieces and stems, drained
6 T. sliced almonds
1 c. chopped carrots
optional - 1/4 c. flour
optional - 1 pint half and half


Cook the rice according to package directions.  Melt the butter in a large pot, add the onions and saute.  Add the rice and all the other ingredients.  If you are going to use the flour and the half and half, add those at the very end. Those two ingredients make it into a "cream of mushroom" soup.   I made this without those two ingredients to make it a bit healthier and more like chicken noodle soup.  It turned out to be really yummy!  I think it would be good either way.

Simmer for 20 minutes.

This also works really well as a freezer meal.  Just pour it into a 10-cup plastic freezer container, and freeze!  All you have to do is reheat it when you are ready to eat it. 

Makes 6 servings.

-Trish