Soup, a Simple Weeknight Meal

By Ben Mims
For Cooking Newbie, a blog for beginner cooks

When it comes to simplicity in a weeknight meal, you can’t get make anything much easier than chicken soup. And making it homemade is really – no, really – much easier than you think.

You don’t need chicken stock; you don’t need expensive noodles. All you need are five core ingredients, and then whatever else you like, whether it’s what you already have lying around in the pantry or what you plan to pick up at the grocery over the weekend.

Simply sweating down vegetables (the term refers to cooking vegetables over low heat until they gently “sweat” out the moisture within) and using dark meat chicken are the keys to a flavorful stock and soup that you can then garnish a million ways.

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