Creamy Hen and Noodles Recipe

Creamy Hen and Noodles is the final word in consolation meals! Loaded with egg noodles, tender rooster, and a creamy sauce that is a simple rooster recipe assured to be cherished by even the pickiest of eaters!

In case you like this recipe, it is best to positively try my Beef and Noodles Recipe, my Slow Cooker Chicken and Dumplings and my Homemade Egg Noodles Recipe!

Why You’ll Love My Hen and Noodles Recipe

• From Scratch! It is a cozy consolation meals recipe that tastes like one thing straight out of your Grandma’s kitchen. No condensed cream of rooster soup right here!
• Household Pleasant. Identical to rooster noodle soup, this can be a recipe that everybody can agree on. Heartier than a soup makes it an ideal, filling dish.
• Straightforward Elements. This recipe is a real on a regular basis dinner with simply accessible elements that’s executed in below an hour, however tastes prefer it’s simmered all day!
• Taste packed. I’ve seasoned this to perfection each step of the way in which. No bland rooster noodles right here!

What You Want/Elements

All of those elements are staples in lots of kitchens, so hopefully you could have all the pieces on-hand to make this for dinner tonight! For the FULL recipe record scroll all the way down to the recipe card on the backside of this publish. 

• Hen: You need to use boneless rooster breasts or thighs for this recipe. You may as well use a retailer purchased rotisserie rooster in a pinch.
• Seasonings: Montreal Chicken Seasoning or seasoned salt, kosher salt, black pepper, dried thyme, and parsley to garnish. 
• Greens: Diced onion, carrots, and celery. minced garlic, and minced garlic. Hen broth
• Liquid: Water, rooster broth, heavy cream
• Fat: Olive oil and butter
• Egg noodles
• All objective flour

How To Make Hen and Noodles

The recipe begins lots like rooster soup, however you boil the noodles within the broth which absorbs the liquid and taste, whereas additionally making a starch within the broth aiding within the creaminess. This together with the addition of a simple roux to thicken it up provides you a hearty base. 

Cook dinner the rooster: In a big Dutch oven (like a Le Creuset) convey each the broth and the water to a boil. Season your rooster after which add it into the boiling liquid to simmer for 20 minutes or so. In case you get lots of foamy impurities rise to the highest, simply scoop them off. As soon as the rooster is completed, take away it from the liquid and reduce or shred it up.

Sauté your veggies: Whereas the rooster is cooking sauté the onions, carrots, celery in olive oil and season them with thyme, salt, and pepper till they’re mushy.

Assemble: Add the rooster, sautéed veggies, and dry noodles into the broth you could have created. Deliver it again to a boil and prepare dinner, stirring regularly, till the noodles are mushy.

Make the roux: Utilizing the identical skillet you cooked the greens in (no want to scrub it but) soften your butter after which whisk in all objective flour cooking for 1 – 2 minutes. Don’t skip this step, because it cooks the “flour style” out! Then slowly ladle in 1 cup of the recent broth, whisking till easy. Add within the heavy cream, persevering with to whisk after which add this into the soup. This step is what thickens up your soup, making it extra of a creamy sauce. 

End: Deliver the rooster and noodles again to a boil, stir, and instantly take away the pot from the warmth. Garnish with parsley and serve in bowls!

What Kind of Hen Do You Use?

I like to make use of both boneless rooster breasts or boneless rooster thighs. OR a mix of each. You possibly can completely use bone-in rooster, it’s simply an additional step choosing the rooster off the bones, versus simply shredding it that I prefer to keep away from.

What’s a Roux?

The step that makes this thick and creamy is the addition of a easy roux to the broth. Roux is a mix of flour and fats, on this case butter, you can add to sauces to thicken them. On this roux I add a little bit of the seasoned broth to skinny it out in addition to a little bit heavy cream. This makes incorporating it again into the broth simpler, making a smoother sauce.

You would additionally use a slurry (which is equal elements water and cornstarch) instead of cooking a roux, however the taste the roux imparts is a part of the perfection of this recipe!

Ideas

• Use rotisserie rooster as a substitute! The one alternation you will have to make is use ALL rooster broth (inventory) instead of the mixture of broth and water. Because you lose the flavour the rooster provides to the broth utilizing all broth as a substitute of a combo is an easy repair!
• Can You Use One other sort of pasta? You need to use any sort of noodles for this recipe, however the extensive egg noodles pair completely with the rooster and sauce in taste and texture.
• What In case your rooster and noodles is simply too skinny and soupy? Too thick? In case your sauce is simply too skinny on your liking, easy simmer a little bit longer. It is going to thicken proper up! If it’s too thick add in a number of extra splashes of rooster broth and stir!

Can You Make Hen and Noodles within the Gradual Cooker?

Sure, completely. You’d simply have to change your steps barely:

1. Lower the water quantity to 4 cups. Add the broth and water and seasoned rooster into the gradual cooker.
2. Sauté your onions to melt them and add them into the broth.
3. Add your uncooked celery, carrots, garlic, and seasonings into the gradual cooker. Cook dinner on excessive for 3-4 hours till the rooster is tender.
4. Take away the rooster, shred it and add it again to the gradual cooker.
5. Add the noodles, cowl and prepare dinner for about an hour, or till the noodles are tender.
6. You’ll nonetheless have to make the roux to thicken it up. So observe the steps as written within the recipe.
7. The sauce is perhaps a little bit thinner than if cooking this on the range high, because the liquid gained’t evaporate the identical within the gradual cooker, because it does on the range high. For this reason I decreased the quantity of water barely. It is going to nonetheless be nice although!

How To Retailer

It is a nice make-ahead dish as properly, excellent for storage for months within the freezer!

Within the fridge: Retailer in an hermetic container for as much as 3 days.

Within the freezer: Retailer hermetic for as much as 3 months. Thaw within the fridge over evening and heat on the stovetop.

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