Lunch
Creamy Chicken Noodle Soup with Pesto Drizzle
Description
Creamy broccoli Tuna Helper® mix gets a 35-minute makeover into a creamy home-cooked chicken soup. Mmm.
Ingredients:
- 2 tablespoons butter or margarine
- 2 medium carrots, sliced (1 cup)
- 2 medium stalks celery, sliced (1 cup)
- 1 medium onion, chopped (1/2 cup)
- 1 carton (32 oz) Progresso™ reduced-sodium chicken broth
- 2 1/2 cups milk
- 1 box Tuna Helper™ creamy broccoli
- 2 cups cut-up cooked chicken
- 1 dried bay leaf
- 2 tablespoons basil pesto
Directions:
- In 5-quart Dutch oven or stockpot, melt butter over medium heat. Add carrots, celery and onion; cook about 5 minutes, stirring frequently, until carrots are crisp-tender.
- Stir in broth, milk, uncooked pasta and sauce mix (from Tuna Helper box), chicken and bay leaf. Heat to boiling. Reduce heat; simmer uncovered 12 to 15 minutes, stirring occasionally, until pasta and vegetables are tender.
- Remove bay leaf from soup; ladle soup into bowls. Place pesto in small resealable food-storage plastic bag; seal bag. Cut off small corner of bag; drizzle pesto over soup.
