I’m sharing a very special recipe with you today. I told you about my mom’s recipe for Spaghetti and Meatballs a few weeks ago. Her homemade Chicken and Noodle recipe is the other meal that feels like home. It’s one of those that I don’t remember loving as much growing up, but when I’m having one of those days that I want my “mommy” it is the food that I want for comfort… You know, ladies, what kind of day I’m talking about? When you want to crawl in bed under your favorite blanket, give up your motherhood responsibilities for the day and have your mom take care of you? This meal is the be all and end all of comfort food.
This is not a soup recipe. It is a thick, hearty meal served best over homemade mashed potatoes. Budget friendly and incredibly easy, once you try this delicious meal, you’ll certainly have requests for it to be in your mealtime rotation time and time again.
My Mom's Homemade Chicken and Egg Noodles
Ingredients
- 1 Whole Chicken
- Dash of salt
- 2 Bay Leaves
- 1 48 oz box Swanson's Low Sodium Chicken Broth
- For the noodles
- Eggs
- 1 Tsp Salt
- Flour
Instructions
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Place the chicken in a large stock pot (I use my7 1/4 Le Creuset Dutch Oven). Add water until it is covering the entire chicken. Add a dash of salt, bay leaves and chicken broth. Boil over medium high heat until the chicken (when tested in the thigh) reaches a temperature of 180 degrees. Remove the bay leaves and the chicken from the broth. Allow the chicken to cool then debone adn remove the skin from the chicken and tear the meat into bite size pieces. (I used boneless, skinless chicken thighs when I made this recently, and they worked well. The broth wasn't as good as when I've used a whole chicken, but for those of you who don't like to deal with whole chickens (hand raised) chicken thighs were a fine substitute.
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For the noodle this is where you can customize the recipe for how large or small of a group you are serving. For every 1/2 cup of flour you will need 1 egg. So, to serve my family of 6, I use 4 eggs and 2 cups of flour.
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In a medium sized bowl, whisk your eggs. Add the salt and whisk again. Next, add the flour. Stir the mixture with a fork until flour is completely incorporated and the dough is stiff.
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Flour a large bread board / cutting board heavily. Dump your dough mixture out onto the floured board. Knead additional flour into the dough. Unlike pie crust (you don't want to work pie crust too much) you want to continue to add flour to the dough until it is thick and smooth in texture. Just work with it and use your instincts.
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Roll out the dough (again... make sure your board is well floured so your noodles won't stick) until very thin. Once your dough is rolled out, using a pizza cutter, slice your dough into thin vertical strips. Make a couple of slices horizontally until your noodles are a desired size (in the picture above, I had very long noodles... I probably should have cut them in thirds instead of just halved. I also could have rolled them out to be even thinner).
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Return your pot of broth and water to a boil. Once boiling, add your noodles to the pot, one at a time, stirring so they don't stick together. Once all of your noodles are in the pot, reduce the heat, add your chicken pieces back to the pot and simmer for 30 minutes. Serve over mashed potatoes with the noodles, chicken and broth. Enjoy!
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yum! Sounds so delicious. I like that the noodle recipe is a ratio (and easy!)
Thank you so much for sharing this family recipe. I’ve been making a lot of homemade pasta lately and have had trouble going back to the dried variety.
Lovely post!
Thank you. It is so nice to have a tried and true mom approved recipe. Maybe I will try it this weekend
My mom made chicken and noodles just like this, and we always called them “fat noodles.” It’s a huge favorite in our family too.
What an awesome recipe. I am having one of those days today! Thanks so much for sharing, I can’t wait to give it a try 🙂
Comfort food at it’s finest!
I am your “Mommy” and I learned this recipe from my Grandma. It has always been one of my favorites. We are planning to make this for about 200 people, and tonight had a test run, discovering you could feed ten people with four eggs and two cups of flour. Thanks for sharing the recipe and saying the nice things you said.
Oh yum. I was sold the minute I read the title. Nom, nom, nom.
I cant WAIT to try this recipe… I love the simplicity yet full flavor… YAY!!
Blessings-
Amanda
Kristen, this looks SO good! My mom used to make something similar, but she never went to the trouble of homemade noodles. Your mama is one special lady! I just love heritage recipes. And girl, that photo of the noodles is perfection.
There is nothing like a recipe your Mom made for you growing up to comfort you when you are older. It’s like a big ole hug.
We all need out “mommy” every once in a while don’t we? This yummy stick to your tummy dish looks like the *perfect* way to get a hug from the inside out!
this is actually just how my mom makes it too! so good and warm and comforting… 🙂
I know exactly what you mean! This is definitely comfort in a bowl.
Oh my goodness. Homemade noodles?! I used to LOVE Bob Evans restaurants because they had noodles like dumplings in their chicken noodle soup. Imagine my disappointment when I moved somewhere Bob Evans wasn’t. So now I have to resort to making my own – and I may just start here. These noodles look perfect – thick, and the star of the show!
Yum! Our family made Darren’s grandma’s version of this dinner earlier this week, complete with potatoes and all! Must be a Kansas thing.
I was just telling my hubs last night how much I used to LOVE making egg pasta when I was a kid. It is so thick, chewy, carby & fabulous. Thanks for sharing this recipe. My kids would love to make this with me 🙂 XO
Kristen!!
This sounds AHHHmazing!! And I get to have noodles on top of my mashed potatoes? HEAVEN.
Thanks so much for the recipe, I am definitely making this!! 🙂
Aren’t our moms’ recipes the best? I love this noodles and chicken dish!
Wow….Kristen! These look amazing….and so, so comforting.
Thank you for posting this….going straight to my “must make” list!
you’ve jogged another childhood memory lose Kristen – my mother made homemade noodles too; she cut hers a bit different but oh how my dad loved seeing the site of her making those – he knew it was chicken and noodles nite!!
I don’t need to eat today … I’m just going to print out this page and carry the picture of your mom’s noodles with me … all the sustenance I need!
My grandmother made homemade chx and noodles and I LOVED them. Now I’m going to have to dig through my recipe box to see if I have a recipe. 🙂
This screams comfort food! I love the thick chunky egg noodles. Great recipe.
Thank you for sharing this wonderful family recipe. Your mom’s chicken and egg noodle looks so comforting, so delicious. Perfect for the winter. It’s in my to-do-list now. Lovely.
I am going to give this a try. You have made this look incredibly easy as well as good to eat! YUM.
This looks amazing!
omg…homemade noodles in chicken soup! you are one terrific mom!!
Oh wow. Comfort food at it’s peek! I’m going to try this over the holidays!
Homemade noodles are the best. I will have to make these for Josh!
great recipe! my son and i made the noodles tonight and it was a hit. i think i need to invest in a pasta press however because my noodles turned into dumplings…i’m going to blame my 4 year old;-)
I cannot even tell you how good this looks.
Wonderful! Thanks for showing us your mother’s recipe….my grandmother used to make homemade noodles…we loved them! They aren’t as difficult as one would think, either!
Wow, that looks so tasty! It reminds me a little of some chicken and dumplings my mum makes but much less labour intensive. Even though it’s the middle of summer over here I’m dying to try this!
yummy! This is exactly my mother in law’s recipe and she serves hers with mashed potatoes too! I thought that it was so weird but strangely awesome! my hubby’s fave!!
I know what my family is having for supper tomorrow night! 🙂
I thought about this ALL day so I made it for dinner and it was SO GOOD! We didn’t have the potatoes but it was still amazing. Got the boyfriend seal of approval too!
Thanks for your homemade noodle recipe, my son love noodles.
I love egg noodles. Total comfort food.
I was just working on my own homemade noodle post when I saw yours so I jumped over here to check it out. Mine look quite a bit different from yours but what is the same is serving them with mashed potatoes. Oh YES!!! My mom used to make some that kinda look like yours but she called them chicken pot pies. Weird name, don’t you think? Yours look way better than hers. (Good thing she doesn’t read blogs.)
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That’s pretty much how we make it too! No store bought broth, and lots of carrots, celery and onions. We serve ours over mashed potatoes too, and when I talk about it, everyone always freaks at the horror of so many carbs.
I made this recipe and it was unbelievable. Couldn’t believe how good it was! Very easy to make and full of homemade chicken noodle goodness. I recommend skipping the mashed potatoes and serving with homemade dinner rolls. The noodles themselves are good enough for anyone..no need to water them down with potatoes.
Kristen,
So glad u posted this. I used to have it as a kid and loved it.
I was curious as to 1 Tsp per 1/2 cup of flour or 1 Tsp for 4 eggs and 2 cups flour?
Sean
Called my grandma to get her noodle recipe. Well my luck she’s not home. Sooooo happy to have found this. My grandmother of course does it by eye, which over the phone would be quite difficult for me. This is perfect, def a comfort food for me. Perfect weather too!
This is one of my all-time favorite dishes! My grandmother used to make this for me when I would visit, thanks for sharing it. Mallory, I had the same problem trying to get the recipe from her over the years. She had done it so often she could ‘see’ and ‘feel’ when the dough was good or not; getting a hard-fast recipe was always a challenge.
I remember my mom making these homemade noodles for chicken, beef, and just about any other meat! With gravy over mashed potatoes was the best!
This is a recipe our family makes. we call it potpie because when my great grandfather made it for his family they called it Pa’s pie. It is so good.
I don’t think I knew ou back in 2010, so I’m commenting now. 🙂 I want those noodles in my life. I need them! They’re so long and thick… ok, now this is getting naughty. I’ll go now.
My mom used to make this all the time. It was so simple she never wrote it down. She passed recently and while I knew it was simple, I couldn’t remember how to make it and was very sad.
What a n awesome surprise to find it here! Thank you so much for sharing it!
I am so sorry to read about your mom, Debra, but it makes me so happy to fill that gap for you. Thanks for letting me know! I hope you enjoy it for many more generations to come!