Homemade chicken noodle soup is soul-warming food at its best. While there are several go-to chicken recipes to choose from, consider this homemade chicken soup if you’re craving some comfort food. It might seem like a lot of work to cook an entire chicken, pick the meat off, and return it to the broth, but rest assured that using a whole chicken is worth the effort. Not only is the flavor from an entire chicken much more delicious, but it is significantly cheaper than buying chicken parts.
Once poached, the meat is easy to pick off the bones, and you can save the bones and skin to make a batch of homemade chicken stock—bonus points for buying an organic chicken raised on an antibiotic-free, vegetarian diet. To make a gluten-free version of this soup, you can use rice noodles instead of egg ones or even swap in brown rice for a whole-grain option.