This Slow Cooker Sicilian Chicken Soup cooks all day; with a peppery broth, fresh vegetables, and tender chicken, this is comfort served in a bowl.
Ever since I originally posted the Sicilian Chicken Soup, I have had several requests for my slow cooker version. I am sorry that I am just now getting around to posting it.
This soup is inspired by the original Sicilian Chicken Soup from Carrabba’s and while this has all of the same ingredients, this is made with chicken breast instead of a whole chicken, making it a lot easier when it comes to the preparation.
But I will say, while this soup is amazing I love cooking the original recipe with a whole chicken just because the flavor is so much better. But it is more complicated. What we found is that we added a little more pepper and cheese to the top of the soup when serving, making it just perfect.
So, if you are short on time and still want a soup with a peppery broth, fresh vegetables, and tender chicken, then this is the one for you. Little prep time, easy to serve, and just delicious.
Enjoy! XOXO San
How do you make Slow Cooker Sicilian Chicken Soup?
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In slow cooker add chicken breasts, water, chicken base, onion, celery, carrots, potatoes, diced tomatoes with their juices, garlic, parsley, 2 teaspoons salt and pepper.
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Cook on high for 6 hours, remove chicken breasts and shred, place back in soup and bake another 2 hours.
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At the end of 8 hours, use a potato masher, mash the soup around a few times, letting some of the potatoes get a little smashed. I don’t try too hard on this, I just mash 2-3 times and call it good. Add noodles to the slow cooker and season with additional salt and pepper if needed.
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Serve with 1/4 cup of sharp cheese on top, we like Asiago and parmesan.
What can you make in a crockpot?
Virtually anything!
Soups, dinners, even desserts!
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If you like this soup, be sure to try this Sicilian Chicken Tortellini Soup.
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Slow Cooker Sicilian Chicken Soup
Ingredients
- 2 chicken breasts
- 8 cups water
- 4 heaping tablespoons chicken base
- 1 yellow onion finely chopped
- 4 celery ribs diced
- 3 carrots diced
- 1 red bell pepper diced
- 2 medium russet potatoes peeled and diced
- 14.5 ounces diced tomatoes
- 1/2 cup fresh flat-leaf Italian parsley
- 5 garlic cloves chopped, I use my garlic press
- Kosher salt and black pepper to taste
- 1/2 pound ditalini pasta cooked and set aside
- 2 cups shredded asiago or parmesan cheese
Instructions
- In slow cooker add chicken breasts, water, chicken base, onion, celery, carrots, potatoes, diced tomatoes with their juices, garlic, parsley, 2 teaspoons salt and pepper.
- Cook on high for 6 hours, remove chicken breasts and shred, place back in soup and bake another 2 hours.
- At the end of 8 hours, use a potato masher, mash the soup around a few times, letting some of the potatoes get a little smashed. I don’t try too hard on this, I just mash 2-3 times and call it good. Add noodles to the slow cooker and season with additional salt and pepper if needed.
- Serve with 1/4 cup of sharp cheese on top, we like Asiago and parmesan.
- **We actually like to serve the serve the soup with the noodles on the side, letting each person add the amount of noodles they want.*
Notes
Love this soup. Thank you.
Oh so happy you did!
Looks GREAT ! ….do you have an Instant Pot version of the recipe ???
Sorry but we do not use an Instant Pot so we haven’t tested any of the recipes in one. If you decide to give it a try, be sure to let us know how it turns out!
Thanks for sharing another wonderful chicken soup recipe with us. What sauce you used on it? The color of the soup is so live and fresh -that makes me more curious to have a try.
Hi! I am going to cook your soup tonight – cannot wait! Are you sure it is cooked for 8 hours on HIGH in the slow cooker? Or should it be 8 hours on low? Thanks! Also, it doesn’t say anything about adding the peppers – I am assuming those go in with all of the ingredients at the start of cooking?
Thank you for the recipe!
Heather, sorry I am just getting back to you. 8 hours on low, yes throw the peppers in with everything. Enjoy!
Hi, is 2 chicken breast enough? Theres a lot of liquid.
Made this soup last night sooooo delicious! Thank you
This looks so good. My family loves soups and I love my Crock Pot. This is perfect. Thanks for sharing your recipe!
I’m afraid I don’t understand how you can go from a whole chicken to 2 chicken breasts, keeping everything else the same, and expect the soup to turn out similarly. But it does look good and I’d like to give it a try.
i’m a newly wed and that I been wanting to bring some Sicilian food to our home, I forgot how to make this and I just wanted to say thank you, it reminds me of my Nona 🙂
Wow, I looks very delicious. Thanks for sharing such an wonderful recipe. I will cook this dishes for my family. I love your blog very much, you often have useful post. I will follow your site everyday to get good recipes
HI
is it 2 teaspoons of salt and pepper
or 2 teaspoons of each salt and pepper?
2 teaspoons of each.
This looks amazing (and fairly easy!). I just got a crockpot this past weekend so I’m super excited to put it to work!
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I am so happy to get this recipe. It looks delicious. Thank You!!!
Am cooking this tonight
No reason you couldn’t use low sodium chicken broth and boneless thighs is there?
That would be just fine. My husband prefers thighs over chicken breast. He would say good call. xo San
Just wondering how long the noodles have to cook for?
Morning can I make this in a dutch oven on top of the stove? Want to double the recipe. How long should it cook? Also 8 cups of water seems like alot especially if I am doubling. Making this tonight.
Could I use a dutch oven on top of the stove. Want to double the recipe. How long should it cook? And is 8 cups of water correct because if I double that would be 16. Seems like alot. Making tonight let me know. Thanks
I stumbled upon this recipe while looking on Pinterest for soup recipes. I made it today with a frozen whole chicken in the crock pot, 7 cups broth, 3//4 Pilot Grigio. 6 hours on low. Then finished it on the stove top in a big kettle. Delicious recipe!!!!! My husband could nitvstop raving about it. But curious the crock pot recipe calls for 1 red pepper the stove top recipe called for 2 red peppers, which one do you do 1 or 2?. Also on the crock pot recipe it says 2 cups of Asiago or Parmesan cheese. But then it says to add only 1//4 cup of cheese on top….. Is it 1//4 cup or 2 cups?
Hi – is there a reason that the stove top version calls for (2) red peppers and the crockpot version only calls for (1) red pepper?
This is my go to soup recipe. I freeze it to have all winter long. Love it!