This easy tomato based chicken and rice soup is an easy and delicious meal that’s full of fresh flavors of lemon and rosemary. A hearty and healthy soup that’s the perfect comfort food.

As the weather starts to get cooler, soup is on the menu in our house! This rich and flavourful chicken soup is a fall favorite and it’s packed full of healthy veggies.

How to Make This Easy Soup Recipe

Peel carrots and onions
Chop carrots into bite-size pieces
Add water, chicken legs, carrots, tomato sauce, onions, chicken stock and salt and pepper into a large pot
Bring to boil, then simmer for 1 hour
Add rice and boil for 20 minutes until cooked
Remove chicken, carrots and onions from the soup and set aside.
Bring soup to boil
Juice lemons and pour the lemon juice in a glass
In a large bowl add eggs
Use a hand mixer to beat the eggs for 2-3 minutes on high speed
Change hand mixer speed to low and very slowly add lemon juice to the eggs
Bring the egg/lemon mixture bowl close to the boiling soup
Using a soup ladle, carefully and slowly pour the boiling soup into the egg/lemon mixture. Stir the egg/lemon mixture continuously throughout this process using a whisk (this will cook the egg without solidifying it). Continue adding the boiling soup into the egg/lemon mixture until ⅔ of the boiling soup has been combined with the egg/lemon mixture
Using the soup ladle, slowly add the egg/lemon-soup mixture back into the pot with the remaining ⅓ of the boiling soup
Bring to a very soft boil. Once little bubbles begin forming remove pot from heat immediately
Remove bones from chicken, shred it and add back into the soup
Add carrot pieces and onions
Add rosemary on top (to taste)
Serve while warm!

Healthy Chicken and Rice Soup Recipe

This soup is a great well balanced meal and it comes in around 350 calories a serving. You get a good helping of protein from the chicken as well as vitamins and minerals from the veggies. It’s also low in saturated fat.

What kind of rice is best for soup?

You can use whatever rice you prefer in this recipe. I use long grain white rice, but most types will work well. Mix it up by using wild rice, brown rice, basmati or jasmine – they all work well! You would cook any rice in the soup the same way as this recipe details.

How do you add flavor to chicken soup?

Some chicken soups can really be bland and lacking in flavor, but that is certainly not the case with this recipe! The soup is well seasoned and the lemon and tomato base and a lovely freshness and zing to it. This is not another boring chicken and rice soup recipe – this one will blow your socks off!

Top Tips to Make This Recipe

Use a good quality chicken stock for the most flavor.
Once the rice is added, be sure to taste to check when it is cooked.
The soup can be kept covered in the fridge for 2-3 days and it freezes well.
Use bone in chicken for the best flavor.

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