Chicken Chili Soup Recipe

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I made this yesterday and had to share. This is especially good when you have a cold, or it’s a blustery day. The chili really warms you up!

It is one of my favorite new recipes, modified from the simpler Trader Joe’s version (they include Trader Joe’s wontons which I thought tasted like cardboard!)

Since I used homemade chicken broth (chicken carcass + water + splash apple cider vinegar +24 hours in crock pot =liquid gold) this cost me less only $2 for the chili sauce + stuff I had on hand.

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Chicken Chili Soup Recipe

1 carton organic chicken broth or 4 cups homemade broth [see above]
1 c. brown rice (white would be good too, if you use white rice this will take 1/2 as much time to cook)
1 bottle Trader Joe’s Sweet Chili Sauce
1/2 c. Trader Joe’s Soyaki (soy sauce with sesame seeds)
leftover cooked chicken (I cooked some chicken thigh meat I keep for soups)
green onions

Put chicken broth in a large soup pot, add bottle of chili sauce, 1/2 c. Soyaki, and 1 c. rice. Bring to boil. Turn down to low and cover and let simmer for approx. 40 minutes (approx 20 mins. for white rice). Turn off heat. Add cooked chicken about 5 minutes before serving. Top with green onions. If you use leftover rice noodles or rice this would only take a few minutes to warm up!

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Chili Chicken Soup

Let me know how it turns out if you try it!

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Kelly Whalen is the founder and editor of the Centsible Life. She started the blog in 2008 as her family faced a mountain of debt and the fixer upper they purchased became a FIXER UPPER. The website was born out of her desire to share what was working (and what was not) on her family's journey to financial security. Kelly lives in Minneapolis with her family.