Barilla Slow Cooker Roasted Chicken Soup with Pasta $100 Giveaway
Chicken Noodle Soup. It’s good for the family, good for the soul, good for the “sickies,” and brings comfort and warmth and togetherness and love.
No matter the scenario, when made correctly, it brings nourishment.
My scenario? Last week, Barilla® sent me a few boxes of their Whole Grain Pasta to try. I knew I’d make spaghetti with the spaghetti noodles, but decided to try something different with the shells (conchiglie). I wanted to make a Slow Cooker Roasted Chicken Soup with Pasta. The soup seemed like a good choice, especially at this wintery, cold time of year (we had our first snow day the day I made it), and with kids and family members getting sick.
I filled my slow cooker to the BRIM with delicious ingredients, including Barilla® pasta!
This recipe might be a different way of making the soup, but using a pre-roasted chicken from the market was the bomb! So easy, so flavorful, with results that were fantastic and loved by all. I was able to feed my family several meals with just one box of pasta!
I quizzed them about how they liked the pasta and we compared it to the egg noodles I usually use (Barilla® Whole Grain is much healthier!). Then I shared information about the nutritional value of Barilla pasta with my family. We were all impressed!
— Cooking with Barilla® Whole Grain Pasta is a way to get whole grains into your diet because it’s made with 51% whole wheat (with 3x the fiber of regular pasta). There is also a TASTE GUARANTEE with Barilla®. If you don’t love their whole grain pasta, you get a box of your favorite Barilla® pasta for free! How cool is that?
Before I share the recipe today, I’d love for you to look at the TryBarillaWholeGrain.com page and the “Dinner Kit” for recipes link. Check out the tools that make it easy to put healthy and extraordinary meals on your table!
Get the Recipe:
Slow Cooker Roasted Chicken Soup with Pasta Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 quarts chicken broth
- 2 Tbsp. olive oil
- 1 1/2 cup carrots, cut into 1/4-inch slices
- 1 1/2 cup celery, cut into 1/4-inch slices
- 1 1/2 cup onions, chopped
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 fresh bay leaves
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- 4 teaspoons salt, to taste
- 1 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper, to taste
- 1 store-boughtroasted chicken
- 12 oz. frozen Green Peas
- 1 13 oz. box Barilla® Whole Grain Pasta, uncooked In medium pan
Instructions
- Heat olive oil and sautee garlic, onions, celery, and carrots for 5 minutes. In slow-cooker bowl combine carrots, celery, onion, garlic mixture and bay leaves, thyme, salt and pepper.
- Place the whole roasted chicken on top of the vegetables. Cover with 1 quart of chicken stock and spices. Cover slow cooker with lid and cook on high 4-5 hours.
- Transfer chicken to cutting board. Discard bay leaves. Add 1 quart of chicken stock. Add pasta to simmering broth, cook for half the required time; let the pasta rest for 30 minutes to absorb the flavors and finish cooking.
- While the pasta cooks, remove and discard skin, fat and bones from chicken; chop up the meat.
- Return the chicken to soup; put the frozen peas in hot water for 1-2 minutes; add the peas.
- Stir, make sure heated through, salt and season to taste. SERVE!
How to win $100?
SWEEPSTAKES Question: What do you love about Barilla® Whole Grain?
Rules:
No duplicate comments.
You may receive (2) total entries by selecting from the following entry methods:
a) Leave a comment in response to the sweepstakes prompt on this post.
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c) Blog about this promotion and leave the URL to your post in a comment on this post.
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This giveaway is open to U.S. Residents age 18 or older.
Winners will be selected via random draw, and will be notified by e-mail.
You have 72 hours to get back to me, otherwise a new winner will be selected.
The Official Rules are available here.
This sweepstakes runs from 2/21/12-3/31/12.
Be sure to visit the Barilla® Whole Grain round-up page on BlogHer.com where you can read other bloggers’ reviews and find more chances to win!
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I absolutely love Barilla Pasta, and usually only buy the whole grain:) And thank you for the link to the recipes! I tend to run into a wall when making pasta recipes for my family, and was inspired by some of the combinations on the site!
I only use Barilla and love it
i love the wonderful taste and it fills you up :)
I love pasta, and Barilla is the only pasta I use in my recipes, I really need to try the wheat grain version.
https://twitter.com/#!/tcarolinep/status/174282550712352768
I like it’s whole grain and also taste great. Kids love it as well.
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https://twitter.com/#!/MeandBells/status/174281122891563008
i like the different dishes you can make with barilla
I have used Barilla pasta for a long time. It has been my preference for most of my almost 13 years of marriage – an Italian friend told me to buy only that one. If they just made egg noodles I would buy nothing else! And it is a great price with regular sales!
So Barilla Whole Grain combines healthy and my favorite pasta – how could you ever go wrong?
I love that it’s so good for you.
I love that my children have always loved Barilla’s whole wheat pasta. We have friends whose children balk at ‘brown pasta’ but mine love it.
What a tasty looking batch of chicken noodle soup, Sandy! I love your recipe and would love to try it for myself. Thanks for sharing! You have a great blog and I’m glad to have found you.
Love the thought of doing the pasta in the slow cooker. This would have to be a weekend recipe for me though. I like that the pasta will stay firm b/c it is whole grain….mushy pasta is no good.
https://twitter.com/#!/aes529/status/174220952509493250
i love that it tastes great and is good for you at the same time
I love that is gives recipes a heartier fuller flavor! Sandy your soup looks amazing!
Definitely like the Barilla whole wheat pasta better than others. It doesn’t have that tough texture that is so hard for me to get past!
https://twitter.com/#!/ElenaIstomina/status/174202969254932480
I love that it’s tasty and healthy
tweet–https://twitter.com/#!/mami2jcn/status/174194993873960960
I love the great taste of Barilla Whole Grain, plus the fact that my kids like it!
We’ve been trying to switch over to Whole Wheat pasta in most of our recipes. It’s amazing how a little goes a long way to filling you up.
I’ve tried several whole grain pasta brands and Barilla is definitely my favorite so far. Still trying to get used to whole wheat pasta…
Love using the slow cooker- thanks for adding a new recipe to my collection
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I really like your blog, Sandy and this recipe seems like the perfect antidote to our grey wintery days. I’ll definitely be making this soup this weekend. I just have one question. I don’t think I’ve ever seen fresh bay leaves in my supermarket. How many dry bay leaves can I substitute in this recipe?
By the way, I am a huge fan of Barilla pasta. I switched to the Catelli brand because they were the only whole wheat pasta I saw but now I’ll know to look out for my favourite brand with a new healthy twist! I love whole wheat pasta because of the taste but also because a small amount fills you up, which makes it super easy to eat healthy portions.
Thanks for a great recipe (again)!