I’ve  been craving chicken soup all week. As much as I love a classic creamy chicken recipe, I fancied something a little extra. Whilst checking out the fresh herbs in the supermarket this morning the tarragon caught my eye.

It’s typical to pair tarragon with chicken, as well as fish dishes. It works perfectly well with soups, both in the recipe and as a garnish on top.

I made this in my soup maker (you can check out my review here), but it is just as easy to make in a saucepan on the stove.

I usually make chicken soup with leftover meat from another meal. As we haven’t yet had chicken this week I ended up buying some chicken breast to cook and use in the soup maker. I told you I was craving it!

This is a really simple to make recipe with the addition of double cream at the end. If you want to make it even creamier you can add in some potato, but I like a thinner consistency, so the double cream was enough for me.

I also wanted to add some fresh lemon juice but I forgot to buy any – but I made it anyway! Feel free to add some in to add to the flavour a little more.

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Chicken and Tarragon Soup Maker Recipe

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Ingredients

• 150 g cooked chicken, shredded/chopped
• 1 vegetable stock cube
• 2 tbsp fresh tarragon, finely chopped
• 150 ml double cream
• 1 onion, peeled and chopped
• 2 cloves garlic, crushed
• 1 tbsp olive oil

Instructions

1. If the cooked chicken isn't already sliced up chop it up into smaller pieces.
2. Gently heat the oil and sauté your chopped onions. This can be done in your soup maker if you have one with this function. If not you can do this in a separate saucepan. (Sautéeing is optional - you can just throw the onions in as they are if you prefer).
3. Switch the sauté function off/transfer onions to saucepan.
4. Add chicken, chopped tarragon, crushed garlic and vegetable stock cube.
5. Fill the soup maker up to at least the minimum line with hot water (depending on how thin/thick you want it).
6. Stir to mix all ingredients.
7. Set soup maker off to smooth.
8. Once the soup maker is finished stir in the double cream.
9. Serve with some sprinkled tarragon (optional).