Summer Chicken Soup with Chive Dumplings
This Summer Chicken Soup with Chive Dumplings is everything you love about classic chicken soup with a fresh seasonal twist. Tender chicken, asparagus, sweet peas, and fluffy Hungarian-inspired chive dumplings simmer together in a light, lemony broth for a comforting meal that's perfect any time of year.
Servings: 4 servings
Calories: 543kcal
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 cup chopped onion about 1 medium onion
- 1 cup chopped carrots about 3 carrots
- ½ cup chopped celery about 2 stalks
- 1 lb chicken breast 2 boneless skinless
- 1 bunch asparagus trimmed and cut into 1" pieces
- 1 cup frozen peas
- 6 cups chicken stock
Chive Dumplings
- 1½ cups flour
- 3 large eggs
- ½ cup milk
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ¼ tsp salt
- 2 tbsp chopped chives and chive blossoms if you have them
Instructions
- In a large soup pot, heat olive oil over medium heat. Add onion and carrot sauté until softened and golden, about 4 minutes. Add a generous pinch of salt and pepper (about 1/4 tsp each) stir well.
- Season chicken with salt and pepper. Push onions and carrots to the sides of the pot, add chicken breasts. Brown chicken and about 3 minutes per side until browned.
- Pour in 6 cups of chicken stock, and bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover, and simmer for 12 minutes. Remove chicken and set aside to rest.
- Add asparagus and peas.
- Dice or shred the chicken and return it to the soup.
- Make the soup dumplings. In a small bowl whisk together eggs and milk, in a larger bowl whisk together flour, salt, and baking powder. Add eggs/milk to flour mixture and stir well with a wooden spoon, add fresh chopped chives and chive blossoms and stir. Mixture will be quite thick and sticky.
- Increase temperature of soup and bring to a boil. Dip two teaspoons into oil and form a small (1/2 the size of a golfball) ball of dough, drop directly into the soup. Repeat with the remaining dough. The dumplings are done when they have floated to the top and cooked for 3-5 minutes.
- Finish the soup with a squeeze of lemon juice, serve immediately.
Nutrition
Serving: 1 serving | Calories: 543kcal | Carbohydrates: 59g | Protein: 47g | Fat: 14g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 6g | Trans Fat: 0.03g | Cholesterol: 216mg | Sodium: 624mg | Potassium: 1386mg | Fiber: 8g | Sugar: 10g | Vitamin A: 6882IU | Vitamin C: 28mg | Calcium: 148mg | Iron: 7mg
