Buffalo Chicken Soup

In recent months I have gained an obsession of buffalo cheese dip. I love. I dream about it. I make it (and eat it in large quanities). So when I came upon this recipe I was instantly intrigued. And it did not disappoint. I am a huge soup fan anyways, especially as fall and winter roll in. So last night was my official kick off to soup season...and it couldn't have started with a more delicious soup.

Ingredients:

2 1/4 to 2 1/2 pound of deli roasted chicken, skinned, boned, and shredded

(One of my favorite tricks my mom taught me was to put chicken breasts in the crock pot on low, along with some water, in the morning. When I came home from work then to make the the soup all I had to do was pull the chicken out of the crock pot and shred it - although it doesn't even really need shredded, because generally it falls apart on its own.)

2 TB butter

1/2 cup coarsely chopped celery

1/2 cup chopped onion

2 14 oz cans reduced sodium chicken broth

1 1/2 cups milk

1 tsp. bottled hot pepper sauce

1 1/2 cups mozzarella cheese

1 1/4 cup crumbled blue cheese

1/2 cup shredded parmesan cheese

1/3 cup flour

 

Directions:

- In large pot, melt butter and add celery and onion. Cook until the onion is tender. Stir in the broth (I also added in the broth left over from cooking my chicken in the crockpot), milk, and 1 tsp hot pepper sauce.

- In bowl, mix together mozzarella and parmesean cheese, 1 cup of the blue cheese, and flour. Add gradually to the soup, mixing in between until the cheese is melted. Stir in 3/4 of the chicken and heat through. Serve.

- Add the remaining chicken and blue cheese. (When I made this I actually added all of the chicken and blue cheese to the large soup pot. This works as well.)

- Top with hot sauce.

 

6 servings...490 calories per serving.

 

 Sorry for the poor lighting. Although it doesn't show it in this picture,

this is actually a fairly thick soup.

This is after I sprinkled on extra hot sauce before I ate.

 

Hopefully you enjoy this meal as much as hubs and I did!