Chicken Noodle Soup

Waste not want not! This is a chicken carcass from one of those store bought BBQ chickens. I would have usually removed the skin but it was frozen. I keep them in the freezer until I have time to make soup.

Place carcass in slow cooker, fill with water until carcass is pretty much covered. Cover and cook on high for 4 hours.

After 4 hours, let cool slightly.

With your hands, separate bones and meat leaving meat in broth and removing bones. Let cool in fridge for a few hours or overnight.

Skim the top to remove all fat solids. (I transferred mine into another bowl only because I needed to use my slow cooker for something else)

Add carrots, potatoes, celery,  noodles, salt and pepper to broth.

I like using a little chopper for the carrots, makes things a lot easier.

Add 2 cups of extra water. Cook on high for about 4 hours.

Let cool.

With only two of us, we won't eat this whole pot right away so I like to freeze individual servings by laddling soup into a ziploc bag that's sitting in a cup.

Lay flat and freeze.

Chicken Noodle Soup

1 chicken carcass

8-12 cups water

2 cups baby carrots

2 large potatoes or several baby ones

5 celery stalks

1 cup whole wheat macaroni noodles

1 tbsp salt

2 tsp pepper