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Spinach Chicken Noodle Soup
 
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Prep Time: 5 Minutes
Cook Time: 10 Minutes
Ready In: 15 Minutes
Servings: 12
Friends and family who would formerly never eat spinach absolutely love this quick and easy soup. Instant chicken noodle soup mix, frozen spinach, and a simplified white sauce are a dynamite combination. It can easily be made more rich by adding cream or extra eggs, thicker with additional flour, or lightened up with skim milk and omitting the egg. It's also been made with only one packet of soup and a little less flour, and you can be REALLY fancy and make a proper white sauce with butter, milk and flour if you have a lot of time. The proportions/recipe are very forgiving. The recipe originally came from a friend of my mother's in the 1980s, and we called it Swamp Soup when we accidentally used a package of frozen whole leaf spinach instead of the chopped variety!
Ingredients:
2 (83 g) packets chicken noodle soup mix
8 cups water
1 (10 ounce) package frozen chopped spinach
1/2 cup white flour
1 cup milk
1 egg (optional)
Directions:
1. Prepare chicken noodle soup with the water according to package directions.
2. Meanwhile, defrost the spinach in the microwave.
3. Mix together the milk and flour (in the measuring cup is fine) until the mixture is fairly smooth.
4. When the noodles are cooked, bring the soup back to a rolling boil and whisk in the spinach and then the milk-flour mixture.
5. Crack the egg into the measuring cup, then whisk it into the soup as it continues to boil. Long strings of egg white should often form and the flour mixture will have thickened the soup. There should only be a few, if any, remaining lumps from the milk-flour mixture, but if present they will have cooked into little dumplings as well.
By RecipeOfHealth.com