Description

There's no need to serve your family canned soup when you can make an easy, quick homemade soup that's delicious, satisfying and comforting. This one is full of flavor with smokey bacon, chicken tenders, noodles, cream cheese, heavy cream and lots of spic

Ingredients

• 6 slices bacon, cut into small pieces
• 1 lb. chicken breast tenders
• 1 T. butter
• 1 shallot, chopped
• 3 ribs celery, diced
• 6 oz. mushrooms, sliced
• 1 small onion, chopped
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 t. salt
• 1 t. black pepper
• 1 t. garlic powder
• 1/2 t. dried thyme
• 1/2 t. smoked paprika
• 4 c. chicken stock
• 12 oz. Reames frozen Homestyle Egg Noodles
• 8 oz. block cream cheese, cubed
• 1 c. heavy cream
• green onion or chopped parsley, for garnish

Steps

1. In a large pot heated over medium-high heat, cook bacon until crisp; transfer to a plate lined with paper towels; crumble, leaving bacon drippings in the pot.
2. Season chicken breast tenders with salt, pepper and garlic powder. If using chicken breasts, cut in half length-wise to cook quicker.
3. To the bacon drippings, add chicken breast tenders; sear about 3 minutes per side. Chicken may not be fully cooked at this point which is ok. Remove chicken from pan; cut into pieces. It will cook more when returned to the pot.