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.
b) Tweet about this promotion @BarillaUS with the following unique term in your message #BarillaWG and link to your tweet in a comment on this post.
c) Blog about this promotion and leave the URL to your post in a comment on this post.
d) For those with no Twitter or blog, read the official rules to learn about an alternate form of entry.
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!
https://twitter.com/#!/LuckyDuckyToo/status/185850362941554689
I like that it contains three times more fiber than regular pasta.
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I like that it tastes good.
Thanks for the contest.
Tweet – https://twitter.com/#!/willitara/status/185762560119816193
I love that Barilla has found a way to make my favorite pasta healthier and still taste good. I use pasta almost every day.
tweet! https://twitter.com/#!/LAMusing/status/185582297779671040
I love they have a taste guarantee
I like it’s healthier but still tasty!
2ND ENTRY TWEET https://twitter.com/#!/kytah00/status/185505644885975042
THE TASTE- IT’S BEGUN TO GET THE BEST OF ME =)
I use Barilla but haven’t tried the whole grain yet. Guess it’s time to get on that train.
https://twitter.com/#!/cmouse01/status/185182570928013313
I love that it’s 51% whole wheat and my family can’t tell the difference when eating it!
I like that I don’t have to feel guilty about eating pasta
I tweeted here: https://twitter.com/#!/MsTofuFairy/status/184651125625061376
I love that its a very well known name brand offering whole grains to the masses. I am a huge proponent of eating whole foods, especially whole grains and have noticed that lots of people have a negative opinion of “health foods.” With the Barilla name comes a guarantee that its going to taste great and hopefully that will get more people to try it and see that eating healthy tastes great!
I love the taste.
We already use this pasta-love the flavor thanks
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I love that Barilla Whole Grain is all natural and is a great source of fiber. Thanks for the chance to win!
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I tweeted the post https://twitter.com/#!/lindabr1001/status/183924162522398720
Barilla Whole Grain pasta has made my kids want to eat healthier, and for this I love it!
tweeted: https://twitter.com/#!/KerryBishop/status/183735947232428032
I love that it’s healthy and still tastes great!