Chicken/8 recipes

Mixed bean soup with black beans, kidney beans, and chickpeas slow-cooked with crushed tomatoes, chili powder, and garlic in the crockpot. Topped with cornmeal dumplings.

Ham and noodle hot dish is the classic Midwestern church-potluck casserole with egg noodles, cubed ham, corn, green peppers, and cream-of-soup base, finished with a buttery corn flake topping.

Sopa de ajo, a classic Spanish garlic soup with sauteed garlic, whole wheat breadcrumbs, chicken broth, paprika, and cayenne. Warming, simple, and ready in under an hour.

Slow cooker shrimp chowder made with cream of chicken soup, potato soup, corn, evaporated milk, and cream cheese stirred in at the end. Thick, creamy, and hands-off.

Asian-inspired one-pot chicken and rice with overnight soy-ginger marinade, bell pepper, snow peas, and water chestnuts. Complete weeknight dinner in one pan.

A slow cooker Parmesan cream sauce loaded with chicken, ham, and mushrooms, spooned into flaky pastry shells. Set it and forget it for an effortless dinner that feels fancy.

Traditional Norwegian spinach soup (Spinatsuppe) built on a rich chicken stock and thickened with a butter roux. Garnished with sliced hard-cooked eggs for a classic Scandinavian touch, ready in about an hour.

Pantry stir-fry with canned chicken, mushrooms, peas, pimientos, and leftover rice. Ready in 25 minutes from shelf-stable ingredients. The original meal-in-one rescue dinner.

Asparagus and sesame chicken soup is a Chinese-style braised soup with bone-in chicken, ginger, sherry, and toasted sesame oil. Bone-in chicken builds rich body that boneless cuts cannot match.

Sweet potato, apple, and onion gratin layered with Granny Smith apples, sauteed onions, and a crispy bacon-cheddar-breadcrumb topping broiled golden brown.

Hot and sour tofu soup builds a silky Chinese-style broth with shiitake mushrooms, ginger, garlic, rice vinegar, and chili oil, thickened with cornstarch and finished with green onions.

Cream of carrot soup made the classic way: onions sweated in butter, a quick roux for body, then carrots simmered in stock, blended and strained silky-smooth, and finished with cream. Velvety, elegant, and simple.

Leek potato soup with nutmeg simmers tender leeks and starchy potatoes in chicken broth, then purees to a velvety silk. A whisper of nutmeg lifts the cream-free soup into something elegant. Bistro classic, weeknight effort.

Four whole heads of garlic simmered with onion, chicken stock, and day-old French bread, puréed smooth and finished with cream. Mellow, rich, and nothing like you'd expect.

Fat-free homemade chicken stock simmered from poaching bones, then chilled, defatted, and frozen as cubes. The diet-friendly trick for adding flavor to anything.

This old-fashioned egg drop soup drizzles a thin batter through a colander into rich beef broth, creating tender, wispy noodle-like strands in minutes. A frugal, warming bowl that stretches pantry staples into something special.