Healthy Chicken Soup Recipe {easy}

This Healthy Chicken Soup recipe is a bowl full of cozy. Simple and healthy ingredients like chicken breast, canned plum tomatoes and white kidney beans come together for a gluten-free weeknight meal that's whole family can dig into!

When the temperature goes down, SOUP SEASON turns up the heat🔥

Because who the heck gets revved-up about a salad with a salmon filet when there's snow still covering the ground?

Answer: no one.

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• 🥣Ingredients for healthy chicken soup
• 🥣Instructions
• ✅What to serve with healthy chicken soup
• 🥡Storage and Freezing
• 🏅Top Tips
• 📖 Recipe
• 💬 Comments

And with shorter, darker days, you don't want to be in the kitchen forever.

This soup with chicken and vegetables doesn't have fussy prep or complicated cooking techniques🙅‍♀️

Just a one-pot meal that really satisfies. 

Easy gluten-free and healthy soups are such great go-to recipes at anytime but especially when you first go gluten-free.

If you're looking for even more soup recipes check out these:

All my gluten-free, healthy soups can be found over here on my site.

Alright let's get making this healthy soup with chicken and vegetables!

🥣Ingredients for healthy chicken soup

• Olive oil
• 2 medium to large chicken breasts
• Sweet onion
• 2 red peppers
• 4 stalks of celery
• 1 can white kidney beans - also know as cannellini beans!
• Low sodium chicken broth
• 2 - 28oz cans of whole plum tomatoes
• Kosher salt
• Garlic cloves
• Chili powder
• Cumin
• Dried basil

🥣Instructions

• First, you'll brown the chicken in some olive oil and salt (it doesn't have to be fully cooked through because it'll cook later in the soup)
• Then, you'll put the chicken to the side and cook the onion, red pepper and celery for a few minutes and add the garlic, chili powder and cumin, and sauté for 1 min longer
• Finally, you'll add everything else and the chicken back into the pot
• Turn heat to low and simmer, covered, for 10 min

✅What to serve with healthy chicken soup

This soup with chicken and vegetables is one of those meals you can really eat on it's own - it has everything you need in one bowl🥣

But if you're looking to round out the meal with something else, here's some ideas:

• a crisp, green salad goes well like Easy Butter Lettuce and Pomegranate Salad or this Spinach and Citrus Salad with Sweet and Spicy Almonds
• a gluten-free bun or garlic toast is nice too - maybe a cornbread! Check out this recipe for a Gluten Free Sweet Cornbread from Mama Knows Gluten-Free

🥡Storage and Freezing

Leftovers of this soup are good in the fridge for up to 4 days. Simply re-heat and serve.

I haven't tried freezing this soup but if you want to, you can freeze it by first letting it cool down. Then place it in an air-tight container for up to 1 month in the freezer. Take out the night before you want to eat it.

🏅Top Tips

Boost the nutrition! This is a healthy soup already but you can take it to the max by grating a whole zucchini into the pot when the soup is almost done cooking. You could also add in spinach or baby kale.

Re-heating tip: when you're re-heating the soup, you can add a little broth if you need to thin it out.

If you do try this recipe, please give a rating and leave a comment below.

I do love hearing from you!

Stay cozy my friends,

~April

Check out these other healthy and gluten-free recipes:

• Starbucks Chicken and Vegetables Protein Box Copycat
• Instant Pot Sweet and Spicy Chicken Thighs
• Healthy Taco Salad with Ground Beef and Kidney Beans
• Sheet Pan Maple Dijon Chicken and Broccoli Bake
• Ground Beef with Beans and Quinoa Meal Prep
• Baked Feta and Cherry Tomato Pasta (gluten-free)

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This recipe was originally posted on February 1st, 2022. Post and recipe was re-tested and updated and the post was published on November 27th, 2022.

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