Healthy Chicken Vegetable Soup
February is heart month and to support a healthy heart I took some of the best ingredients for heart health and combined them into this Healthy Chicken Vegetable Soup.
Heart-Healthy ingredients in this recipe:
- Olive Oil
- Garlic
- Carrots
- Zucchini
- Tomatoes
- Lentils
- Kale
- Red wine
- Chicken
That’s a lot of super ingredients for your ticker! Don’t forget to enjoy some dark chocolate for dessert (another heart-friendly food).
This Healthy Chicken Vegetable Soup is so easy to make, especially when you have pre-cooked Canadian chicken on hand. I’ve mentioned a few times now that once a week I cook up a batch of chicken breasts to make dinners during the week easier. Doing this keeps my health goals on track, I have a clean protein ready to go and keeps my heart healthy.
Speaking of a healthy heart, my heart goes to Canadian chicken. It’s incredibly important to me that my chicken comes from Canadian Farmers. These farmers are supporting their families and carrying for their chickens like how I would. It’s easy to seek out for Canadian Chicken at the grocery store, just look for the Raised By a Canadian Farmer logo.
Keeping chicken Canadian not only helps our economy but helps the families who raise the chickens. Want to meet your Canadian Farmers? See who they are here.
Healthy Chicken Vegetable Soup:
BEST SOUP EVER TIP: add lemon juice. It adds that extra zing that sometimes goes missing. I was making this recipe while chatting with a friend and she brought it up. I did something similar with this recipe for creamy cauliflower dill soup by adding apple cider vinegar.
This recipe makes a lot, so make sure you have a larger pot. I like this set from Amazon.
Healthy Chicken Vegetable Soup
Ingredients
- 2 tsps olive oil
- 1 onion chopped
- 2 stalks celery
- 1 cup chopped carrots
- Sprinkle of sea salt
- 1 zucchini
- 2 tsps minced garlic
- 1/4 cup red wine
- 4 cups chicken broth
- 1 can fire roasted tomatoes
- 1 14 oz can crushed tomatoes
- 2 cups kale ribs removed
- 2 cooked chicken breasted chopped
- 1/2 cup split red lentils
- 1 tsp thyme
- 1/4 tsp pepper
- Squeeze of lemon juice about 1-2 tbsps.
Instructions
- Heat olive oil over medium heat in a large pot.
- Add the onion, celery, carrots, zucchini, garlic and sea salt. Stir around until all water has evaporated from the zucchini, onion is translucent and everything is tender.
- Add the red wine and let it reduce.
- Add fire roasted tomatoes, chicken breast and chicken broth. Stir until it begins to boil.
- Add kale and red lentils.
- Let simmer on low for roughly an hour (covered).
- Add lemon juice, stir and serve.
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This looks like an amazing recipe that I will have to try out minus the red wine though LOL! Thanks for sharing 🙂
I guess creamy just isn’t as healthy. DAMN. Tee hee 🙂
It’s healthy for the soul Kyla! I love a good creamy soup too 🙂
If this soup tastes even remotely as good as it looks, than you have a winner on your hands Randa! I love how it is chalk full of good ingredients and the Canadian chicken is the cherry on top!
You kill me with you amazing recipes! Adding this one to the list of things to make this week! Thanks for sharing 🙂
That looks so delicious. I love a soup that is hardy and chuck full of veggies.
This looks so amazing! I love adding chicken to vegetable soups – this one looks amazing!
My husband and I are on a new diet that allows most of these ingredients! Been looking for new recipes that utilizes these. Thanks for linking up with the Delicious Dishes Recipe party!
You’ve got some awesome recipes and I going to comment from the bottom up. This soup looks really good but more than it is healthy especially with the fire roasted tomatoes, lentils and kale. YUMMY !!!!!
Amazing healthy recipe! Would definitely recommend. Been making it for a few years now!
You’ve missed the thyme and crushed tomatoes in the directions, FYI. Guessing they are added the same time as the other tomatoes?
Is this something that can be done in the crockpot?