Everyone loves a comforting bowl of chicken soup—especially hard-to-beat classics like chicken and dumplings or chicken noodle soup.
Whether you’re making a traditional chicken soup that starts with mirepoix, trying out a new medley of ingredients using rotisserie chicken
Or relying on store-bought broth, there is one simple ingredient that will enhance your dish: lemon. Juice, zest, or both! Your recipe might even already call for it.
Many recipes use lemon in the beginning of the recipe, but for soup, you’ll want to wait and add the lemon towards the end of the cooking process to retain its vibrancy
First off, lemon and chicken are a classic ingredient pairing. It’s like cornbread and collards, biscuits and jam, or Clairee and Ouiser. You get the point, the two just go perfectly together!
From crowd-favorites like chicken piccata and lemon pepper wings to the endless roasted and baked lemon chicken recipes, you can’t go wrong with this combination—especially in soup.