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!
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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.
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 sauté the veggies.
- 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!
Recipe FAQs
Honestly, how good your chicken soup tastes is going to depend on whether you use a quality chicken broth or not. Bouillon cubes or granules lack flavor. If you want a good flavored chicken soup, you need to use a chicken base. Better than Bouillon is a great brand, and Walmart carries it. Or you could use the premade Swanson chicken broth.
Yes, this recipe of mine is good for you! Canned soups are really high in sodium and preservatives. Homemade chicken vegetable soup uses fresh ingredients and no preservatives, which is a win in my book!
The warmth and comforting flavors of soup do actually make you feel better when you don't feel well. Its soothing qualities seem to ease the symptoms of a cold or the flu.
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 Recipe
Ingredients
- 3 Tbs. Butter
- 2 Cloves Garlic
- ½ Cup Onion chopped
- ½ Cup Celery sliced
- ½ 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 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 sauté the veggies.
- Add the chicken.
- Pour in the chicken broth.
- Simmer until the veggies are cooked through.
- Add salt to taste and the Italian seasoning.
- Get out your soup bowls 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.
Lori
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.
Keri Scaggs
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).
Mindee
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.