Italian Bean Soup With Chicken

4 Servings
1 hr 5 min

Are you looking for a quick Italian Bean Soup recipe? We absolutely love this recipe for dinner on busy weeknights. If you know you’ll be very busy on a certain night, you can easily make this soup ahead and store it in the refrigerator. Then, you can heat it up right before you need it. Or, you can toss everything in the slow cooker on high for about eight hours and it will be ready when you need it.

You can serve this Italian Bean Soup as the entire meal. Or, you can add a side salad and homemade bread or baking powder biscuits to help fill people up. My husband loves having bread or some sort of starch with each meal. If you want to keep it easy, add pasta to the soup about 30 minutes before you need to have it ready. Just make sure that you add a bit more liquid to the recipe if you do.

Italian Bean Soup With Chicken
Recipe details
  • 4  Servings
  • Prep time: 20 Minutes Cook time: 45 Minutes Total time: 1 hr 5 min
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Ingredients

  • 1 can Great Northern or other white beans
  • 2 - 3 cups peeled, cubed potatoes
  • 1 fennel bulb, sliced (I'll leave this out since I have no fennel now)
  • 2 stalks celery, diced
  • 2 - 3 carrots, peeled and sliced thinly on the diagonal
  • 1 cup of chopped leeks or scallions
  • 1 cup of leftover chicken breast or other meat
  • 3 Tblsp olive oil or other vegetable oil
  • 1 clove garlic, minced
  • 1 tsp dried basil OR 1 Tblsp fresh minced
  • 1 tsp dried marjoram OR 1 Tblsp fresh minced
  • 1/2 tsp dried thyme, OR several fresh sprigs
  • 1/2 tsp dried ground fennel, or celery seed
  • 1 tiny pinch cayenne
  • 6 cups boiling water
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1/4 tsp ground black pepper
Ellen Christian - Confessions of an Overworked Mom
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  • Vickie Meinen Vickie Meinen on Jan 28, 2023

    The recipe calls for white beans, but the picture looks like green beans..... I don't mind green beans but was disappointed about white beans. They are a definite pass.


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