There is a take and bake place in town that has the most amazing lemon chicken artichoke soup. I decided to try to make a copy of it at home. This soup isn’t exactly like the one at the local shop here, but it’s close. This recipe is so good and highly addictive! I encourage you to try it as soon as you can!
Lemon Chicken Artichoke Soup
Ingredients:
½ stick of butter
1 tbsp oilive oil
5 cloves of garlic, minced
2 yellow onions, diced
2 12oz jars of quartered artichoke hearts in water (drained, rinsed and diced)
2-3 lemons
2-3 cups of cooked chicken breasts, diced
1 tsp of dried oregano
8 cups of reduced sodium chicken broth
2 cups of half & half
Salt and pepper to taste
In a 5-6 qt. stockpot over medium heat, melt butter and add the olive oil. Sauté the onions until translucent, add the garlic and then cook for a minute more. Add the artichoke hearts and salt and pepper if desired and cook for 3-5 minutes. Next, add your chicken stock. Allow this to come to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for 15 minutes. Add the half & half and the juice of the first two lemons, bring to a simmer and taste everything here. I added the juice of another lemon for a total of three in my recipe. However, lemons can vary in how much juice they give, so try it after 2 and see if you would like more in the soup. Also adjust for salt and pepper at this point as well. Continue simmering for 30 minutes. Then add diced chicken and oregano. Allow to simmer for 15 more minutes. Then enjoy!
Some notes: I didn’t add any extra salt to this recipe at all and it was plenty salty for me. Also more pepper or oregano can always be added. It’s very important to taste as you go along to see what you’d like to add more of. Want more of a kick? Increase the black pepper. Don’t like oregano? Just leave it out. It will still be delicious. Want more chicken? Add 3 cups instead of 2. It's really a flexible recipe. This soup is amazing. I hope you will try it soon! By the way, I found the artichoke hearts at Aldi for a good price. Check them out if you have one close by.
Also, I used chicken breast I had cooked using a wonderful method I discovered on a blog and then froze it. You can find her method here. I used the Tuscan Garlic seasoning from Tones (found at Sam’s) as my seasoning for the chicken. This way of cooking chicken is amazing, not to mention how she has you refrigerate the chicken, then dice it. It makes for perfect little cubes of chicken!
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