This simple Chicken Vegetable Soup recipe is the easiest soup you’ll ever make. You’ll likely be able to find all of the vegetables in your pantry. Great dinner option to pull together in a pinch!
Original post: January 2014 | Updated: March 2020
Why This Recipe Works
Introducing the easiest soup you will ever make. Head over to your pantry and peek inside. Most likely, most of the ingredients will be staring back at you. That’s the best kind of recipe, am I right?!
How To Make Chicken Vegetable Soup
Step 1
Heat olive oil in a Dutch oven or heavy saucepan over medium heat. Add garlic and parsley and season with salt and pepper. Cook until soft and fragrant, 3 to 4 minutes. Add the following:
- Corn
- Potatoes
- Peas
- Green beans
- Carrots
- Diced tomatoes
- Chicken stock or broth
Step 2
Increase heat to medium-high and bring to a boil. Lower heat to medium-low and simmer for 30 minutes. Five minutes before soup is finished, add the chicken (2 cups shredded or 2 cans).
Ladle into serving bowls and top with Parmesan cheese.
Recipe Notes
- You have options when it comes to adding meat to this soup. Pull meat from a Rotisserie chicken, cook and shred chicken breasts or just use canned chicken!
- Swap out veggies with what is in your pantry. ANY vegetable tastes great in this soup.
- To simplify the recipe even more, replace fresh garlic with 1 teaspoon garlic powder and replace fresh parsley with 2 teaspoons dried parsley.
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Ways To Boost Flavor In This Recipe
While this recipe is super easy and delicious, there is room to boost the flavor a few different ways. Consider adding one or more of the following to your soup! Scope out this post for even more flavor-boosting tips!
- Add 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper.
- Drizzle a few drops of hot sauce (like Tabasco) into the soup! Zing!
- Add canned or fresh jalapeno peppers to the garlic and olive oil before adding the veggies to the pan.
- Add up to 1 tablespoon Italian seasoning to the mixture before simmering.
- Chop and add onion to the garlic and oil at the beginning of the recipe.
- Replace canned veggies with equal amounts fresh if you have them on hand!
- Top the soup with shaved Parmesan just before serving.
- Sprinkle extra salt and pepper into the recipe.
- Add 1 teaspoon seasoned salt to the soup.
- Use additional spices of your choice, such as paprika, cumin or oregano.
- 1-2 teaspoons of sugar would sweeten it right up.
- Add bacon! Or sausage. Or both!
- Use full salt chicken broth/stock.
- A can of chickpeas or beans would be a great addition (drained).
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Chicken Vegetable Soup Recipe (aka Pantry Soup)
Ingredients
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 3 cloves garlic minced
- 1/4 cup Italian parsley finely chopped
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 14.5 oz whole kernel corn drained
- 14.5 oz sliced potatoes drained
- 14.5 oz sweet peas drained
- 14.5 oz green beans drained
- 14.5 oz sliced carrots drained
- 14.5 oz diced tomatoes
- 64 oz chicken stock or broth
- 2 cups chicken cooked and shredded (or canned)
- 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese shaved, for topping
Instructions
- Heat olive oil in a Dutch oven or heavy saucepan over medium heat. Add garlic and parsley and season with salt and pepper. Cook until soft and fragrant, 3 to 4 minutes. Add the corn, potatoes, peas, green beans, carrots and tomatoes, as well as the chicken stock/broth.
- Increase heat to medium-high and bring to a boil. Lower heat to medium-low and simmer for 30 minutes. Five minutes before soup is finished, add the chicken (2 cups shredded or 2 cans). Ladle into serving bowls and top with Parmesan cheese.
Notes
- You have options when it comes to adding meat to this soup. Pull meat from a Rotisserie chicken, cook and shred chicken breasts or just use canned chicken!
- Swap out veggies with what is in your pantry. ANY vegetable tastes great in this soup.
- To simplify the recipe even more, replace fresh garlic with 1 teaspoon garlic powder and replace fresh parsley with 2 teaspoons dried parsley.
Delicious. No corn no string beans just canned spinach. Only 1 qt of both and a can of veggy juice. Fresh carrots and potatoes. Added oregano.
Dee! Sounds incredible. Thanks for sharing!
The directions do not say when to add tomatoes and lists corn twice!
Barbara, thank you for letting us know. The instructions in the middle of the post did state it correctly but I appreciate you letting me know the recipe card was incorrect. I’ve updated it!
I love pears and peaches.
I have green beans and peaches stocked