Chicken Macaroni Cream Soup (Sopas). A filipino soup favorite made with elbow macaroni, milk and butter. This is perfect anytime you feel like having soup. Boil water in a pot, add chicken until cooked and set aside.
Milk makes this chicken sopas version rich and creamy. I am using evaporated milk for this recipe. Alternative ingredients for this type of milk includes Excellent recipe. You can have Chicken Macaroni Cream Soup (Sopas) using 14 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Chicken Macaroni Cream Soup (Sopas)
- You need 2 of chicken breasts, cubed or strips.
- You need 1 of medium onion, chopped.
- It's 1/4 of garlic head, chopped.
- It's 1 1/2 c of cooked macaroni or elbow pasta.
- You need 1 of small carrot, jullienned or diced (none in photo).
- You need 1/4 of cabbage, in strips.
- Prepare 1/4 box of (+/- 60ml) all purpose cream.
- You need 1/2 of of chicken bullion cube.
- You need 1/2-1 Tbsp of Butter.
- Prepare 1-2 Tbsp of Cooking oil.
- You need 1.5 L of Water.
- Prepare to taste of Salt.
- Prepare to taste of Pepper.
- It's of Green onions to garnish (optional).
I added cream cheese to make it thicker and cayenne pepper para may onting anghang. Next babawasan ko yung elbow macaroni. This is a creamy and flavorful Asian soup loaded with chicken, pasta and vegetables. I have so many sweet memories of this Creamy Chicken Sopas that my mom always made, perhaps at least once a week.
Chicken Macaroni Cream Soup (Sopas) step by step
- Prepare ahead: half cook elbow pasta according to package instructions. Set aside. Also half cook (seasoned with S&P) chicken in a separate pot in 1/2 cup water then cut into cubesor strips. Set aside..
- Saute onions then garlic in oil in a pot..
- Once fragrant, add in your chicken and 1/2 c water. Boil until cooked and remove then cut into cubes or strips. Meanwhile add 1L water into the same pot and drop in the chicken bullion or broth cube..
- Return the cut chicken into the pot and add your elbow pasta, carrots, cabbage and All Purpose Cream (Nestlé or other brand). Get a spoon and get a knob of butter, add into the pot (optional). Stir until simmmering..
- Taste and season with salt & pepper. Adjust if you need to add more both cube. When satisfied, taste elbow pasta if okay to your liking. I like mine al denté. Remember it will continue cooking when you turn off the heat. Serve and garnish with snipped green onions..
My siblings and I often requested for this and our mom always. Sopas is one of those Filipino dishes that can be a complete meal in itself. It has vegetables, meat, pasta Sopas is also excellent for those cold days when you want something warm for your tummy. One way of making it really creamy WITHOUT salt is using Campbells Cream of Chicken Soup. Creamy Macaroni Chicken Soup or popularly known as Sopas, came from the Hispanic word SOPA�S, meaning soup.
