Chicken Noodle Soup - Low Sodium and Full of Flavor
Chicken noodle soup is a favorite for a lot of people. Any time you had a cold, your mom probably gave you soup to help make you feel better. Today it is high is sodium so many people with high blood pressure or other health issues can not eat it.
Low sodium soup can be packed full of flavor. Comparison shopping for cans of soup will make you realize two things. Regular chicken noodle soup has the equivalent of a whole day of sodium. Lower sodium soup still has a significant amount of sodium. The only alternative was to simply not eat any canned soup.
The secret to being able to enjoy chicken noodle soup is to make it yourself. Chicken does not have a lot of sodium in it, vegetables do not have a significant amount of sodium. The liquid base of your soup probably carries an extremely high sodium count if it was produced commercially. The best way to enjoy chicken noodle soup is to make it yourself. The easiest way to do this is to purchase chicken with the bone still in the meat.
Simply cook the chicken by washing it with cold water and placing it in a roasting pan for a couple hours at 225. When the chicken is fully cooked remove from the pan and let cool. While the chicken is cooling set up your slow cooker. Chop up a couple stalks of celery, carrots and onions and put on the bottom of the slow cooker. All the skin and bones from the chicken should be placed onto of the vegetables in the slow cooker. Add cold water to the slow cooker until two inches away from the top. Turn the cooker on low and leave it for eight hours. When eight hours have been completed strain the broth and let cool. The fat will rise to the top and should be skimmed off.
The remaining broth can be poured into plastic containers and frozen until needed. Once frozen run the container under hot water for ten seconds and pop the frozen puck out and place in a freezer bag until needed.
Low sodium chicken noodle soup is easy, take one of your frozen pucks and put it in your slow cooker. Add all the vegetables you want and turn the slow cooker on high for 4 -6 hours. Right before you want to eat your low sodium chicken noodle soup cook the right amount of any kind of whole wheat pasta noodle until almost done. Drain the pasta and add it to your low sodium chicken noodle soup and wait approximately ten minutes and your low sodium chicken noodle soup will be packed with flavor and ready to eat.
