Chicken Sopas is a soup dish filled with diced or shredded boneless chicken meat and elbow macaroni noodles. This chicken soup is a common breakfast or snack food among Filipino families particularly during the rainy season. Since this is a family favorite, most Filipino families have their own treasured Chicken Sopas recipe. I’m guessing that some recipes might even be passed from generation to generation.
The difference of Chicken Sopas from other traditional chicken soups is the use of milk. Fresh or even evaporated milk is added to the soup along with the chicken and different vegetables for a richer flavor. The addition of other meats such as diced hotdogs or luncheon meat in some recipes can also be considered as one of the factors that make this soup dish different from the traditional ones. I, for one, have tried almost all the versions of this dish (I even tried one recipe that makes use of chicken liver) and they were all great.
This particular recipe is one of the simplest recipes that I tried. I shot the video during our 3 day camping adventure at Indiana Dunes. In order to save some time and avoid a lot of mess, I used diced boneless chicken meat and chicken broth rather than deriving stock by boiling bone-in chicken. The taste is pretty much the same but you can save more money if you do it the traditional way: boiling bone-in chicken to make chicken stock and manually removing the meat from the bones.
By the way, the noodles and vegetables may vary depending on the recipe. Feel free to use the appropriate vegetables that you desire.
Can I also request you to share your way of making Chicken Sopas for the benefit of everyone? I am excited to learn from you.
Chicken Sopas Recipe
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 1 medium sized onion diced
- 1 lb boneless skinless chicken breast diced
- 32 ounces chicken broth about 4 cups
- 2 cups elbow macaroni
- 3/4 cup celery stalk chopped
- 3/4 cup carrots diced
- 3/4 cup cabbage; shredded
- 3/4 cup fresh or evaporated milk
- 1 cup water
- Salt and ground black pepper to taste
Instructions
- Heat a cooking pot and put-in the butter. Allow the butter to melt.
- Add onions and cook until the texture becomes soft.
- Put-in the boneless chicken breasts and cook for 3 to 5 minutes.
- Sprinkle some salt and ground black pepper and stir.
- Add chicken broth and bring to a boil.
- Pour-in water and milk and wait to re-boil. Simmer for 15 to 20 minutes.
- Add the elbow macaroni and cook for 8 minutes while stirring once in awhile.
- Put-in the carrots and celery and simmer for 3 minutes.
- Add the cabbage and cook for 2 minutes more.
- Turn-off the heat and transfer to a serving plate.
- Serve hot. Share and enjoy!
Jebelle says
January 20, 2011 at 6:09 pmanother great video recipe from panlasang pinoy!:D I love this site!
Eatsopas says
January 24, 2011 at 2:52 amEATSOPAS!
Ceci says
February 11, 2011 at 9:06 pmAdd red bell peppers for a kick. You’ll like it.
boylampa says
April 21, 2011 at 3:18 amsir, ano ba local term ng celery? forgive my ignorance..lolz thanks
Carl says
November 7, 2011 at 11:05 amd ko lam u pre pero kinchay ka2mbas nun satin.. :)) mas mbango nga lng ung celery..
bam says
May 31, 2011 at 3:03 pmsince i don’t have any cabbage available at the moment i only used peas and carrots, the ones you can buy in grocery in packages and i didn’t use chicken cube. i’m just starting to learn how to cook since i don’t cook at home. your recipes are really helping me.
manuel says
August 27, 2011 at 12:02 pmI love so much this soup, always making me hungry!
Tnx.
Janis says
October 16, 2011 at 12:02 amOur all time favorite staple food! You may try adding red bell pepper. It infuses different taste anyone couldn’t resist 🙂
Mojovader says
January 19, 2012 at 12:42 pmI add the red bell pepper also, i usually add chicken liver and vienna sausage and to top it off boiled eggs
May says
January 19, 2012 at 1:09 pmI really enjoy visiting your site whenever I cook for the family or friends. Your recipes with the videos make it so easy to follow for novices like me. I used to be able to view the videos with my iPhone or iPad but recently it doesn’t play anymore from your site. The videos makes your recipe easy to follow and having it play on a mobile device makes it even more convenient and efficient. Hope you can look into this. Thanks and more power to Panlasang Pinoy.
Rica says
February 26, 2012 at 4:52 amAko rin i always have my iPad in the kitchen with me to watch the video while cooking. I check for the ingredients and do a quick scan of the steps on this site tas i have to go to youtube pa for the video.
jhoana says
February 1, 2012 at 12:46 pmcan i use margarine instead of butter?
aceteban says
March 20, 2012 at 9:08 amAwesome! Your site is providing us tremendous value, keep it up…
Paula says
April 21, 2012 at 1:31 amI never use salt for my sopas. I only salt it with patis. Also, I add 1-2 bay leaves.
mayann busaiya says
April 14, 2016 at 8:42 amThank you for sharing it with me, I will cook sopas for tomorow
Vanjo Merano says
April 14, 2016 at 1:50 pmyou are most welcome, Mayann.
Catherine Tito says
April 23, 2016 at 9:01 pmThanks for all your recipes Mr. Vanjo Merano it helps me a lot. Whenever I have something special or simple recipe to cook I always refer here at panlasang pinoy. I can say that this is the best site for filipino dishes and desert. More power and godbless.