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Chicken Pastina Soup Recipe

Written by Published on Updated on February 24, 2023 in Main dishes

Hey there,

I went in a completely different direction with this Chicken Pastina Soup Recipe, and I will tell you why.  Do you ever have those days where everything is Nope to this ingredient and Nope to that ingredient?  Well, today was one of those days for me.  I wanted to prepare a soup with Chicken for hubby but I didn’t want to add too many ingredients.

I started to think back to my childhood and remembered a Chicken soup my mom used to make.   A simple Chicken and mini star-shaped pasta soup.  With that memory in mind, I went to my kitchen and started preparing this Old School Soup.  Seriously speaking, it is a simple soup to make just add your chicken and pastina, and it’s done.

Pastina is a smaller version of the normal-size pasta that we generally eat.  By the way, guess, what I found Pastina can also be found in baked dishes who knew?  I had no idea but I did find this so interesting, definitely tempted to try a baked Pastina dish in the future.

I do love to eat soup and the many variations that exist today but sometimes going Old School does bring back memories.  (I added more pepper than I should have as you can see in the photo just to give it a more dramatic look).

I hope that this soup brings back some of your childhood memories. If you have any childhood recipes that you would like to share please send them to me and I will post them on my blog.  In all honesty, some of the Old School recipes still taste as good as they did back then.

Have a great day everyone!!

shredded chicken in a while bowl with star shaped pastina. A dash of pepper and a few crackers in the background on a green dish towel

Chicken Pastina Soup Recipe

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A simple old-school recipe made with just shredded chicken, and start-shaped pastina.
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Prep Time 10 mins
Cook Time 30 mins
Course Main Course
Cuisine American, Mediterranean
Servings 2 people

Equipment

  • 1 knife sharp
  • 1 wooden spoon
  • 1 cutting board
  • 1 stainless steel soup pot optional
  • 1 ladle

Ingredients
  

  • 2 pieces chicken breast shredded
  • ½ cup pastina star-shaped
  • 6 cups broth chicken or vegetable
  • salt
  • pepper
  • ¼ cup olive oil

Instructions
 

  • Start by boiling the chicken breasts in 6 cups of water with the ¼ cup of olive oil on medium heat for about 15 minutes. Shred the chicken into small to medium size pieces and set aside.
    shredded boiled chicken
  • Use the homemade chicken broth to boil the star-shaped pastina, Add in the shredded chicken and cook for 20 min or until pastina is ready.
    half a cup of star shaped pastina
  • Ladle into soup bowls and serve with crackers or freshly baked bread.
Keyword Easy recipe, Quick recipe

KALI MAS OREXI!! 🙂

 

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Welcome to a small corner of my Greek Heritage. Growing up in New York from Greek parents, was a challenge of its own...but the traditional food, tastes and aromas that my mother cooked always travelled me back to Greece. My mother is a wonderful cook, our house would always have that smell of home cooked food. I remember very clearly that we were only allowed fast food, once a week, that was a huge day for myself and my brother. Jumping up and down in the back car seat, laughing, just being kids. It is true that we all like to eat different foods, taste, smell, even try food that looks different than our regular meals at home and I think that is so natural. In my teens, I was not really into cooking, I enjoyed my magazines after school, listening to music, and just taking a breather. There were times that I would glance at some of my mom's recipes, more out of curiosity than to actually try to cook them. At that time I did not realise that cooking would become my passion one day. Slowly, I would start to look into my mom's recipes a bit more each day and I started to find it interesting as a hobby. Each month I would go into our neighborhood bookstore and pick up my monthly book, until one day I decided to stroll over into the cooking section. That summer was the first time I actually bought a cooking magazine....and I loved it. Cooking and baking started out as a hobby, but now after many years it is my passion. Exploring the cuisines, the spices, the oils, the scents, the variety of smells and tastes that exist. It was and still is an amazing journey without limits. So, come along with me on this adventure, and I hope you enjoy my recipes. Sophie

2 Comments

  1. Linda @thedutchbaker
    October 21, 2022 at 6:54 am  ·  Reply
    Oh this soup looks delicious! 😍

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