Sicilian Chicken Soup

If you are looking for an easy but rich recipe, you definitely have to try this healthy Sicilian Chicken Soup. You don’t need special skills for this recipe; you just need to mix the ingredients, let it cook for several hours, and enjoy! This is a quick Sicilian Chicken Soup recipe in terms of preparation time, though it tastes best after simmering for several hours.

The recipe provides a simple Sicilian Chicken Soup meal. It is very easy to do! However, the recipe takes preparation and cooking time. You need to spend time dicing the vegetables, cutting the chicken into bite-sized chunks, and preparing your pasta. Then, you mix it all together and let it simmer for several hours.

I love the boldness of the flavors and its dump-and-go cooking style. You only have to put all your ingredients into a big soup pot and let the stove do its job. I swear it doesn’t get easier than that. Like many soups, several hours of slow cooking enhance the flavor and allow them to blend in a way that does not happen when trying to make a quick meal. The soup does not need much monitoring while it simmers away, but it will reward you for your patience.

The best part? It makes a large pot. So you can feed an army of hungry and picky eaters!

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Why You’ll Love This Recipe

We like it as it is. With pasta and veggies, it’s more than enough to keep us happy. Yeah, simple (or call us lazy) people.

But when I serve it to guests, I make sure I add a few side wows. Sometimes I serve charcuterie before the soup, allowing guests to snack on cheese, sausage, meats, fruit, and nuts before the meal, but you can also serve those items with the soups. The other approach is to serve the soup with side dishes that complement this simple Sicilian Chicken Soup meal. My go-tos are cheesy garlic bread, green salad with a lemon vinaigrette, and freshly baked focaccia.

Ingredient Notes & Substitutions

• Shredded rotisserie chicken
• Yellow onion
• Celery
• Baby carrots
• Red bell peppers
• White potatoes
• Diced roasted tomatoes
• Chopped fresh parsley
• Minced garlic
• Salt
• Ground black pepper
• Pasta

I love using small pasta for this recipe. Tiny shells, macaroni, or even alphabet-shaped pasta. It’s fun, and it cooks quickly, too!
The best way to think about which pasta to use is to consider which size pasta fits on a serving spoon. If the pasta does not easily fit on the spoon, it is too big for the soup. If you’re using longer pasta like penne or fusilli, make sure to break it into smaller pieces.

How to make Sicilian Chicken Soup

Step 1. Add the chicken, vegetables, tomatoes, about 8 cups of water, parsley, minced garlic, salt, and pepper in a crockpot.

Add the ingredients to the crockpot.

Then, add the water.

Lastly, add the chicken.

Step 2. Cover and cook on LOW for 4 hours.

Step 3. Prepare the cooked pasta according to package instructions.

Step 4. Add the cooked pasta to the slow cooker and stir. Enjoy!

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Tips for Success

Soups in general are versatile. Give your soup pot whatever you like, and it’ll gift you something tasty in return.
The best Sicilian Chicken Soup recipe allows you to use your favorite ingredients, whatever is in season, or whatever you have available. If you have extra vegetables that do well in soup, throw them in the pot, and the pot will reward you with a unique batch each time.
You can tweak this recipe by replacing the chicken with beef or pork. If you’re a seafood lover, go for some mussels and crab sticks. I’ve also seen people add a can of chickpeas to the mix or maybe a few tablespoons of olives. It’s all about what your taste buds like. When it comes to homemade Sicilian Chicken Soup ideas, modify the ingredients to reflect the vegetables, meat, and pasta you want to use up or that your family members and guests prefer. Part of the fun of making traditional soups is experimenting with the ingredients to see which ones you enjoy most or that blend best. You seldom can go wrong when making an old family favorite.

Storage & Reheating

Yes, you can! You can make the family friendly sicilian chicken soup the day before and put it in your fridge. You can either cook it the day before you plan to serve it or refrigerate all the ingredients and cook it the day you need it. You can even freeze it for up to one month if you want. Please use an airtight container for maximum freshness.
It really is a keeper, don’t you think?
When you’re ready to serve it, bring it to a boil. I let it simmer for a bit, so my pasta becomes soft again.

Serving Suggestions

If you want a thicker soup, cornstarch can help. Add the corn starch to some cold water. Then, slowly pour the mixture into your soup and let it simmer. Continue adding the corn starch-water mixture until you get the thickness you want, though I’d suggest you keep the corn starch to a minimum. The soup already has many ingredients in the pot. Everything will go perfectly well with a liquidy soup.
An alternative to cornstarch is to add more pasta to the soup, but don’t add too much, or the pasta will soak up most of the liquid.

Notes

Tweak this recipe by replacing the chicken with beef or pork. If you’re a seafood lover, go for some mussels and crab sticks. I’ve also seen people add a can of chickpeas to the mix or maybe a few tablespoons of olives. It’s all about what your taste buds like. When it comes to homemade Sicilian Chicken Soup ideas, modify the ingredients to reflect the vegetables, meat, and pasta you want to use up or that your family members and guests prefer. Part of the fun of making traditional soups is experimenting with the ingredients to see which ones you enjoy most or that blend best. You can’t go wrong when making an old family favorite.