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Garden Vegetable Chicken Soup

Updated: Sep 29, 2023 by Mindee ยท This post may contain affiliate links ยท 15 Comments

Let me show you how to make homemade vegetable soup with zucchini, yellow squash, carrots, and onions from your own garden! It's keto, gluten-free, low-carb, and just plain healthy!

Big bowl of hot chicken soup full of zucchini, carrots, and more!
A big bowl of hot chicken soup full of zucchini, carrots, and more!
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Why You'll Love This Recipe

  • Everybody needs a comforting vegetable soup recipe for when they're sick!
  • A delicious vegetable soup without tomato sauce, tomato paste, or any at all tomato!
  • Chicken soup made from fresh vegetables like squash and zucchini from your garden or even the farmer's markets!

Ingredient Notes

  • Butter - please feel free to use olive oil instead.
  • Chicken Broth - I highly recommend using a chicken base instead of bouillon granules. The flavor difference is huge! Chicken base is a highly concentrated chicken stock that has not been dried out.
All the fresh veggies and other ingredients you'll need to make this easy recipe!
All the fresh veggies and other ingredients you'll need to make this easy recipe!

Step-by-Step Recipe Instructions

  • Chop, slice, and dice the zucchini, yellow squash, carrots, celery, onions and garlic.
  • Cut up the fully cooked chicken.
  • Prepare chicken broth.
  • Heat a soup pot or stock pot over medium-high heat.
  • Melt the butter to sizzle in a pot. 
  • Add the onions, garlic, carrots, celery, zucchini, and squash to the sizzling butter.
  • Lightly sautรฉ the veggies.
Lightly sautรฉ' the fresh vegetables.
Lightly sautรฉ' the fresh vegetables.
  • Add the chicken. 
  • Pour in the chicken broth.  Just a note here.  The quality of chicken broth you use will determine how good your soup will taste.  I don't recommend using bouillon cubes or granules.  Use a good chicken base to make your own (which is what I do), or use pre-made.  
  • Simmer until the veggies are cooked through. 
  • Add salt to taste and the Italian seasoning. 
  • That's all there is to it!
Add the chicken, broth and seasonings.
Add the chicken, broth, and seasonings.

Recipe FAQs

How do you add flavor to chicken soup?

Honestly, how good your chicken soup tastes is going to depend on whether you use a quality chicken broth or not.ย  Bouillon cubes or granules lack flavor.ย  If you want a good flavored chicken soup, you need to use a chicken base.ย  Better than Bouillon is a great brand, and Walmart carries it.ย  Or you could use the premade Swanson chicken broth.ย 

Is homemade chicken vegetable soup healthy?

Yes, this recipe of mine is good for you!ย  ย Canned soups are really high in sodium and preservatives.ย  Homemade chicken vegetable soup uses fresh ingredients and no preservatives, which is a win in my book!

Does chicken soup really make you feel better?

The warmth and comforting flavors of soup do actually make you feel better when you don't feel well.ย  Its soothing qualities seem to ease the symptoms of a cold or the flu.

What should I serve with this garden vegetable soup recipe?

Saltine crackers are great, but don't forget to try some 90 Minutes Dinner Rolls or a crusty loaf of Homemade French Bread!

Related Soup Recipes

  • Buffalo Chicken Soup - A family favorite recipe!
  • Easy Stuffed Pepper Soup - Delicious Soup
  • Fresh Tomato Soup - try this with fresh herbs! Yum!
  • Chicken Pot Pie Soup - makes for a delicious meal!

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Garden Vegetable Chicken Soup

Garden Vegetable Chicken Soup Recipe

Mindee
Let me show you how to make homemade vegetable soup with zucchini, yellow squash, carrots, and onions from your own garden!ย  It's keto, gluten-free, low-carb, and just plain healthy!
4.91 from 11 votes
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Prep Time 10 minutes mins
Cook Time 30 minutes mins
Total Time 40 minutes mins
Course Soup
Cuisine American
Servings 6 serving
Calories 138 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 3 Tbs. Butter
  • 2 Cloves Garlic
  • ยฝ Cup Onion chopped
  • ยฝ Cup Celery sliced
  • ยฝ Cup Carrots sliced
  • 1 Cup Yellow Squash sliced and halved
  • 1 Cup Zucchini sliced and halved
  • 6 Cups Chicken Broth
  • 2 Cups Chicken pre-cooked and cubed
  • 1 teaspoon Italian Seasoning
  • Salt

Instructions
 

  • Chop, slice, and diceย the zucchini, yellow squash, carrots, celery, onions and garlic.
  • Cut up the fully cooked chicken.
  • Prepare chicken broth.
  • Heat a soup pot orย stock potย over medium-high heat.
  • Melt the butter to sizzle in a pot.ย 
  • Add the onions, garlic, carrots, celery, zucchini, and squash to the sizzling butter.
  • Lightly sautรฉ the veggies.
  • Add the chicken.ย 
  • Pour in the chicken broth.ย ย 
  • Simmer until the veggies are cooked through.ย 
  • Add salt to taste and theย Italian seasoning.ย 
  • Get out yourย soup bowlsย and dig in!

Notes

  • Butter - please feel free to use olive oil instead.
  • Chicken Broth - I highly recommend using a chicken base instead of bouillon granules. The flavor difference is huge! Chicken base is a highly concentrated chicken stock that has not been dried out.ย ย 

Nutrition

Calories: 138kcalCarbohydrates: 14gProtein: 16gFat: 2gSaturated Fat: 1gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.5gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0.03gCholesterol: 45mgSodium: 1755mgPotassium: 517mgFiber: 1gSugar: 7gVitamin A: 1917IUVitamin C: 9mgCalcium: 57mgIron: 1mg
Keyword chicken vegetable soup, garden vegetable soup, garden vegetable soup recipe
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  1. Lori

    September 24, 2023 at 12:05 pm

    I made this recipe and used a chayote squash instead of zucchini. It has the texture of a potato without the starch. The soup is absolutely delicious. I also make my own stock by roasting the chicken carcass in the oven with onion, celery and carrots. I strain the broth and skim the fat. A very healthy meal.

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  2. Keri Scaggs

    August 03, 2022 at 10:54 pm

    Looking forward to trying this recipe, but I have to say Better Than Bouillon is not healthy in any way, shape or form. It's full of MSG and other processed crap. Better off buying actual stock OR making your own (which is always worth the effort).

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    • Mindee

      August 04, 2022 at 5:58 am

      Most don't have time to make their own broth. As a skeptic of most products I have looked into Better Than Bouillon. It contains no MSG and is made from 95% organic ingredients. Clean eating-wise homemade is best but I shape my recipe around what the majority of people are able to use or have access to.

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