Healthy Chicken Soup with Kale
If there’s any kale recipe that deserves being paired with chicken, it’s this one. The flavor of healthy kale combined with homemade chicken stock and chicken breast makes a soup that’s hard to resist. We’re huge fans of eating kale in almost any form and when there’s left over kale, carrots and chicken, we’ll simmer up a big batch to savor during the week.
Healthy Chicken Soup with Kale
This chicken soup recipe doesn’t get any easier than this. The ground cumin and bit of soy sauce really add a wonderful depth of flavor to this soup. Bland chicken soup sucks that’s why when developing this recipe we decided that the touch of soy sauce and spice of ground cumin would elevate this recipe to big flavor. Readers love this recipe and so do their kids. It’s great to have soup that pleases everyone in the family. This chicken soup with kale recipe uses boneless skinless chicken breast and this makes the soup healthy, with very little fat. But if you’re a fan of chicken thigh meat, then you can certainly use that as well.
What you’ll get is a more flavorful chicken kale soup because brown meat has so much more flavor. To make it a more substantial meal, add come cooked egg noodles or pasta for a chicken noodle kale soup. The possibilities are endless!
{Video} Watch the video for making the Healthy Chicken and Kale Soup
This recipe was originally published in 2013 and re-published in 2020 with updated video.
{Extra Video} How to make Chicken Stock from Left Over Chicken
Chicken Kale Soup
Ingredients
- 2 Tablespoons (30ml) olive oil
- 1/2 onion , diced
- 1 pound (455g) boneless skinless chicken breast (or boneless thigh meat) , cut into small bite sized pieces
- 1 large carrot , chopped
- 1- inch (2.5cm) knob ginger, peeled & smashed
- 1/4 teaspoon (1ml) ground cumin
- 1/4 teaspoon (1ml) chili powder
- 1 teaspoon (5ml) soy sauce (Use Tamari for gluten free)
- 4 cups (2.84l) chicken stock
- 1 bunch of kale , ribs removed and leaves chopped
- salt to taste , depending on how salty your stock is
Instructions
- In medium stock pot, heat the pan on medium heat, then add olive oil. Add onion and cook until translucent.
- Add chicken and cook for about 3 minutes or until brown on the outside. Add carrots, ginger, ground cumin, chili powder and soy sauce. Stir and cook for about 2 more minutes.
- Add chicken stock. Turn heat to high and bring soup to a boil. Once it begins to boil, reduce heat to low.Simmer soup on low for about 15 minutes. Skim fat from top of soup occasionally, if needed.
- Add chopped kale and cook for 2-3 minutes or until kale becomes tender. Serve hot.
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Nutrition Information per Serving
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44 Comments on “Healthy Chicken Soup with Kale”
Delicious! A little too salty for us, so we ate it with rice to balance it out. Will make it again for sure.
One the best soup recipe; simple, healthy and full of flavor!
So glad you enjoyed it Kris!
Is it 299 calories per serving or for the whole pot?
Hi Brandi,
It is per serving. Thanks for asking & happy cooking!
This was super delicious and filling!
My kids love eating this whenever they’re feeling sick and when most solids make them feel nauseous. They even request me to make this soup for them when the weather is cooler. Glad they’re able to try kale because of your recipe.
I’m a huge fan of kale and I give this recipe a huge thumbs up! It’s a light soup that’s very tasty!
I use to make this a lot but haven’t for a year . Making it now and I love it. The amount of salt sorta freaks me out so tonight I’m using more water and low sodium broth.
This was a wonderful way to use our kale that we’re growing in our garden! I had a bunch of frozen chicken wings that I threw in the crockpot, and poured water (maybe 2 cups) over top of that and let it cook all day on high until the everything fell off the bone. Once I pulled all the inedible parts of the chicken out, I added everything else in (with extra water to make 4 cups of stock and put frozen mixed veggies in since I have no other vegetables in my house!) and heated it through. I even got my kids to eat it! Just goes to show what a wonderful recipe this is and how it can be improvised upon when you’re in a bind! Will definitely be making this again! Thank you for a wonderful recipe!
so glad you enjoyed the recipe! thanks for sharing and making it.
Could you tel me how much kale is required in grams please? (In UK supermarkets kale tends to come preshredded by the bag). Looking forward to trying this out it sounds great!
Hi Miriam,
For pre-shredded kale, it would probably be around 225g or 1/2 pound, as a best guess. But you can always add more or less to your preference. Enjoy!
Wow, this soup looks delicious! Would it be possible to make it in the crock pot?
Yes, it would probably work in a crock pot. But maybe add the kale later so it doesn’t overcook. Let us know how it turns out!
This soup has become my husband and I’s go to recipe. We seriously make it once a week. So amazing!
I am having dental surgery soon and I was looking for recipes using some of my favorite ingredients with the intentions of freezing it for ease of cooking later. I came across your recipe and even though it is 90 degrees here (Arizona), I made it today. Sadly, the soup never made it to the freezer. One test taste and oh my gosh. My husband, who is not a big fan of Kale, loved it – we ate it all! The only changes were, instead of using chili powder, I used fresh cilantro. I also used a mixture of kale, spinach, and chard and sprinkled some fresh parmesan cheese on top. Delicious!
Thank you for sharing this wonderful recipe.
This soup is incredible! Totally blew my mind! Easy to make, so much flavor, especially from the ginger! Great alternative to regular chicken noodle soup. Thank you!
This was amazing the flavors really came together…… (will try again and again) Thanks 🙂
We love this recipe! I’ve made it twice and it’s just yummy. I know it’s moving out of soup season, but the temps… http://t.co/YbScYEee8B
Just made this soup and everybody raved about it. Healthy and delicious. Thanks for submitting