Chicken Bacon Ranch Stew Slowcooker Recipe

Chicken Bacon Ranch Stew Slowcooker Recipe - the perfect 'stoup' to elevate the simple chicken noodle soup! And it can all be made from your food storage!

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Sometimes, you want a simple chicken noodle soup. It's fresh. It's classic. It's comforting.

But sometimes, you really want something a little heartier. Especially in the winter when you want a little more!

This simple, easy, and inexpensive recipe is perfect for winter nights when you want to curl up with a book, or binge some Netflix, and have a comforting meal in a cup.

It's also great to have ready for when you get home from a night of school activities and need something that is ready with no fuss!

This recipe can use all fresh foods as in this inspirational recipe from Simple Joy. But I wanted to show how you can take a recipe and convert it to food storage foods, particularly dehydrated foods.

Chicken Bacon Ranch Stew Recipe

Equipment:

• Measuring cups and spoons
• Slow Cooker or Multi-cooker
• Sense of Adventure

Ingredients:

This recipe is extremely versatile. Use whatever you'd like, however you have it stored or what you have fresh.

• Pasta - use any hearty pasta. This isn't the place for angel hair or zoodles.
• Chicken - use your home canned chicken (1 pint), dehydrated chicken or freeze dried chicken for shelf-stable use, but you can use fresh chicken if you prefer.
• Dehydrated Vegetables - this is a choose-your-own-adventure type of recipe. Use whatever your favorite dehydrated vegetables are to make this soup. Remember to monitor for liquid levels and add more if needed while cooking.
• Cream of Chicken soup - you can use a pantry item like this or a cream of anything soup (scroll down the page a little) with a little extra shot of chicken bullion.
• Ranch Dressing Powder: Of course, you can use commercial, or you can make your own from this recipe.
• Bacon - Use shelf-stable pre-cooked bacon or bacon bits. Yes, you can always use the leftovers from breakfast or what you've precooked in the freezer.

Directions:

1. Mix all ingredients into a slow cooker like this one. This will also work in your multi-cooker on the slow cooker setting.
2. Cook for 4 hours on high, 6 hours on low.
3. Remove chicken to shred, return to slow cooker.
4. Add noodles and allow to cook for 20-30 minutes, until done to your desired texture. Hearty noodles work better than thin noodles.
5. Make bacon, crumble, then add as garnish when serving.

Serves 8

Darcy's Tips:

• You can make this completely shelf-stable by using freeze-dried chicken , like this from Augason Farms, instead of fresh, and have it cooked in as much time as the noodles cook and the chicken rehydrates. No need for a slow cooker at that point.
• Want to take this up a notch with a spicy twist? Use Fiesta Ranch Seasoning Mix -- or make your own in bulk from my friend Leisa Sutton's recipe!
• Instead of using Cream of Chicken soup, you can make your own "Cream of Something" soup by using this recipe.
• DIY Bacon Bits: You can make your own bacon bits ahead of time by cooking them in the oven until crisp, dabbing as much fat off as possible, crumbling, flash freezing, and storing in the freezer.

Learn to dehydrate the vegetables in this recipe:

• Celery
• Bell Pepper
• Carrots

A conversion chart to help with fresh to dehydrated.

Watch the Youtube Video for Chicken Bacon Ranch Stoup here.

More Meal Ideas with Dehydrated Foods

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