# Papa Brad's Italian Chicken Soup

> Papa Brad's simple Italian chicken soup with a whole chicken, vegetables, oregano, basil, and celery seed — served over rice or noodles.

**Ingredients**

One whole chicken (cut in half - innards removed), or chicken parts (white and dark meat, bone-in)

32oz Chicken stock

8 cups of water

3 large Carrots, chopped into bite size pieces

1 large onion, diced

1 Shallot, diced

1 head of Garlic, minced

2 medium Potatoes, chopped into bite-size pieces (optional)

3 Celery stalks, chopped into bite size pieces

½ tsp celery seed

3 Tbls Oregano

1 Tbls Black pepper, or to taste

1.5 Tbls Basil

1 Tbs Olive Oil

2 Tbs Salted Butter

**Directions**

In a large dutch oven, heat olive oil and butter. Once heated, sear / brown the chicken on all sides. In the same pot, leaving the chicken in, add chicken broth, water, oregano, celery seed, and basil. Boil until the chicken is cooked.

While the chicken cooks, chop up carrots, garlic, onion, shallot, celery, and potatoes. In a separate pan, brown the onions and shallot over high heat, once brown add the celery, carrots, garlic, and potato. Cook vegetables until preferred softness.

After chicken is cooked, remove chicken and pull meat off bones - place aside. Allow broth to cool, a film should form at the top of the broth. Using a strainer, scoop the top layer film off the broth. Repeat one more time if needed.

Now, add the vegetable mixture and pulled chicken to the broth in the dutch oven. Bring to a boil again, then reduce heat and simmer for several hours until the desired thickness.

Season with salt to taste, serve over rice or noodles.

## Details

- **Category:** Cooking
- **Tags:** cooking, soup, italian, chicken, dutch-oven, oregano, basil, celery-seed

**Also read:** [All writing](https://bradanderson.org/writing?format=md) · [About Brad](https://bradanderson.org/about?format=md)

---

**Navigate:** [Home](https://bradanderson.org/?format=md) · [About](https://bradanderson.org/about?format=md) · [Work](https://bradanderson.org/work?format=md) · [Projects](https://bradanderson.org/projects?format=md) · [Breeds](https://bradanderson.org/breeds?format=md) · [Writing](https://bradanderson.org/writing?format=md) · [LLM guide](https://bradanderson.org/llms.txt)

_Ask BradBot directly: POST https://bradanderson.org/api/agent/ask with {"question": "..."} (details in https://bradanderson.org/llms.txt)._