Mushroom Chicken Thigh Soup
This is my recipe and is a variant from the Baked Mushroom Thighs recipe. I like Cream of Mushroom soup, I make it here at the house, it is so easy, takes about 5 minutes and the main ingredient is evaporated milk. Mushrooms go well with chicken. When I was making Baked Mushroom Thighs, I had one thigh left over that could not fit into the baking dish, so I added it to the soup mixture, good move. Link to the shortcut is listed in the Recipe Notes section.
Ingredients
- 4-6 chicken thighs, bone in, skin on
- 1 can condensed cream of mushroom soup, OR make from a shortcut
- 1 soup can milk
- 1 teaspoon dried parsley
- 1/2 teaspoon onion powder
- 1 teaspoon corn starch, optional, depends if you want a thicker soup
- salt and pepper, to taste
- 1-2 handfuls fresh mushrooms, Tesco variety pack is good a good choice
Instructions
- Boil the chicken thighs until cooked through, drain and remove the meat from the bone. Keep the bone and skin for your dog, cube the meat, reserve the water, you just made chicken stock (refrigerate and use in recipes that call for stock or chicken recipes that call for water).
- Pour the soup into a pot. Fill the empty can with milk, and add to the pot along with the parsley and onion powder. Mix well, season with salt and pepper if desired. Add chicken meat and mushrooms. If you want a thicker soup, add the cornstarch before adding the chicken and mushrooms.
- Heat to a boil then reduce heat to a simmer (the soup will thicken if you used cornstarch) and simmer until chicken is heated through and mushrooms are cooked through.
- Serve in a bowl over rice or pasta.
Notes
Chicken is the most expensive part here, chicken thighs run on average, 59 Baht/kilo but are smaller due to being trimmed. Chicken quarters average about 56 Baht/kilo, you would have to buy 8 quarters, probably a kilo and half or so, then cut yourself (very easy), you get larger thighs and you get 8 drumsticks that you can freeze for use in another recipe. I'll say the chicken costs you 150 Baht, half of that is 75 Baht since you have 8 legs to use later. The soup would cost on average 54 Baht for a can, about 18 Baht if you make it yourself. About 129 Baht if using store bought soup, for 4 meals this would be just under $1 per meal, when stretched to 8 meals (easily done with the larger thighs) this comes out to about 50 cents per meal. All other ingredients are minimal cost or already on hand.
Shortcut: Condensed Cream of Mushroom Soup.
My own recipe.
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