Cuban chicken soup, or sopa de pollo, is a traditional Cuban soup made with chicken, vegetables, and spices. Add some rustic bread to sop up the broth for an authentic, comforting meal.
Why You'll Love This Cuban Chicken Soup Recipe
Cuban style chicken noodle soup is a comforting, flavorful soup that is perfect for a chilly day. It's chock full of chicken, Fideo noodles, and chunks of corn on the cob, about as authentic as you can get.
If you're looking for a new favorite soup recipe, be sure to give this one a try.
It is easy to make and can be made with simple ingredients that you may already have on hand. This soup is sure to hit the spot and leave you feeling warm and satisfied.
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- Why You'll Love This Cuban Chicken Soup Recipe
- Ingredients For Our Chicken Noodle Cuban Soup
- How to Make Cuban Style Chicken Soup
- Kelly's Recipe Notes
- Serve This Cuban Chicken Noodle Soup With Other Cuban Food
- Related Recipes
- Substitutions and Variations
- Equipment
- Storage and Reheating
- Tips for Success
- Frequently Asked Questions
- More Delish Recipes
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Ingredients For Our Chicken Noodle Cuban Soup
Chop and measure all your ingredients for this Cuban soup before starting, as it helps to keep for leaving anything out. It also lets you dash to the store and grab anything you don't have on had.
- Chicken - Boneless chicken thighs, or chicken breasts.
- Tomato sauce
- Sazon Goya seasoning powder packet - The peach box.
- Salt
- Onion - Chopped.
- Carrots - Diced.
- Celery - Diced.
- Potatoes- Cubed.
- Broth - Chicken, fresh or store bought.
- Water
- Oregano - Fresh or dried.
- Garlic - Minced.
- Black pepper
- Olive oil
- Lemon or Lime
- Fresh Corn on the cob, cut in 1" rounds.
- Fideo noodles -You will find fideo noodles in the Hispanic food aisle, or the pasta aisle. If you can't find them, use Angel Hair pasta, and break it up in small pieces.
- Cilantro, chopped
Full ingredient amounts and preparation instructions to cook this Cuban recipe are in the printable recipe card at the bottom of this post.
How to Make Cuban Style Chicken Soup
- Chop and dice all the vegetables up. They all get chopped up pretty small except for the potatoes, which are left in 1" chunks, and the corn is sliced in 1" chunks, or rounds.
Start The Chicken Broth
- Add the chopped onion, diced celery, diced carrot, and minced garlic. Saute for 3 minutes in the soup pot.
- Add the salt, oregano, pepper, chicken broth, and water and bring to a boil, then reduce heat to medium.
Add The Sazon Seasoning
- Empty the contents of one packet of Sazon Goya seasoning powder into the soup pot and stir in the Sazon Goya seasoning. Cook for 5 minutes. Use the Sazon powder seasoning packet that comes in the peach colored box when making this Cuban soup recipe. This is the secret ingredient for Sopa de Pollo Cubano (chicken noodle soup).
Simmer With The Chicken
- After the chicken has cooked completely, stir the fideo noodles into the pot of chicken soup and cook for 4 minutes. Fideo noodles are thin vermicelli noodles in 1 to 1 ½" pieces. Broken angel hair pasta will work in this recipe for Cuban soup also.
Add The Corn Chunks To Cuban Chicken Stew
- After the noodles have cooked and are tender, add the 1" thick rounds of fresh corn and the potatoes to the pot of soup.
- Cover the pot of chicken soup and simmer for 20 minutes. Squeeze the lemon juice into the soup right before serving.
Kelly's Recipe Notes
I love this recipe for Cuban seasoned chicken soup chock full of thin, short fideo noodles. It's super easy to make and the entire family enjoys it. I cook it on the stove top in a Dutch oven usually, but occasionally in my slow cooker also. Always add the fideo noodles last, as they are so thin, that they don't need about 4 minutes to cook, other wise, they'll get mushy.
You'll find about four different Sazon flavoring varieties at the grocery store, in the Hispanic foods aisle. The peach box is annatto and cilantro flavored, which pairs beautifully in this Cuban recipe.
Serve This Cuban Chicken Noodle Soup With Other Cuban Food
Make this aromatic and flavor bursting recipe for Cuban Chicken soup and it will quickly become a family favorite. Serve with garnished with fresh chopped cilantro, crisp tortilla strips, and is typically served with crusty, rustic bread.
If you love Cuban food, see our recipes for Tostones, Cuban Fried Plantains. Cilantro Lime Rice (Rice Cooker), and Instant Pot Cilantro Lime Rice.
Full ingredient amounts and preparation instructions are in the printable recipe card at the bottom of this post.
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Substitutions and Variations
- You can substitute the fresh corn rounds with 2 cups of frozen corn or 1 can of canned corn.
- Fresh broth is even better than store bought!
Equipment
You will want a good soup pot when making this. I love how the enameled cast iron Dutch Oven cooks great on the stove, and yet still is something attractive on my dining table. Here are a few options much more economical than Le Crueset soup pots.
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- 4.5 quart Enameled Cast Iron Dutch Oven
- 6 quart Enameled Cast Iron Dutch Oven
Storage and Reheating
- This recipe makes a nice amount of chicken noodle soup, enough for a family meal and a bit of leftovers.
- Store soup in freezer safe storage tubs for up to 3 months.
- Reheat the soup in a sauce pan, or in the microwave. This Cuban chicken soup is comforting on cold days, you will be so glad you saved some!
Tips for Success
- Be sure to use boneless and skinless chicken thighs.
- You can use chicken meat from a rotisserie chicken (about half the chicken, cut into chunks), or 2 cans of Swanson canned chicken breast.
- If managing the pieces of cut fresh corn on the cob doesn't work well for your kids or family, use frozen corn instead. Add it to the pot toward the end and cook until done. Kids really do love the chunks of corn though!
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, I surprised my kids when little with Alphabet Pasta in their chicken noodle soup! They loved fishing for the letters to their names in their Cuban chicken soup!
Fideo noodles look just like vermicelli, but Fideo is a thin vermicelli type of noodle made from maida flour. Maida is corn based. Angel hair noodles are a thin vermicelli noodle made from semolina flour.
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Cuban Chicken Soup (Sopa de Pollo Cubano)
Ingredients
- 8 Chicken thighs boneless, skinless
- 4 oz Tomato sauce
- 1 envelope Sazon Goya Peach colored box preferred
- 1 tablespoon Salt
- ¼ teaspoon Pepper
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- 1 medium onion chopped
- 3 large carrots diced
- 2 stalks celery diced
- 2 medium potatoes chunked in 1" pieces
- 2 ears fresh corn cut in 1" rounds
- 5 cups chicken broth
- 5 cups water
- 1 teaspoon Oregano dried, or 1 sprig fresh
- 2 tablespoon Lemon juice or Lime
- 8 oz Fideo pasta or 8 oz Angel Hair pasta, broken
- Cilantro for garnish - optional
- 2 tablespoon olive oil
Instructions
- Cut up all the vegetables. Put the olive oil at the bottom of your soup pot. Add all the chopped vegetable, except for the potatoes and the slices of corn. Add the garlic. Cook for three minutes. Add the oregano, pepper, chicken broth, and water.¼ teaspoon Pepper, 2 cloves garlic, 1 medium onion, 3 large carrots, 2 stalks celery, 5 cups chicken broth, 5 cups water, 1 teaspoon Oregano, 2 tablespoon olive oil
- Empty the contents of one Sazon Goya seasoning packet into the soup pot. Add the tomato sauce, salt, and cubed chicken. Simmer for 20 to 30 minutes.4 oz Tomato sauce, 1 envelope Sazon Goya, 1 tablespoon Salt, 8 Chicken thighs
- After the chicken has cooked completely, add the Fideo noodles.8 oz Fideo pasta
- After the pasta has cooked and is tender, add the 1" thick rounds of fresh corn and potatoes. Put the top on the pot and simmer for 20 minutes or until the corn is tender.2 medium potatoes, 2 ears fresh corn
- Just before serving add the lemon or lime juice and stir. Serve with chopped fresh cilantro as garnish (optional).2 tablespoon Lemon juice, Cilantro
Notes
- You can use chicken meat from a rotisserie chicken (about half the chicken, cut into chunks), or 2 cans of Swanson canned chicken breast.
- You can substitute the fresh corn rounds with 2 cups of frozen corn or 1 can of canned corn.
Vee says
Great soup but I added thyme,, rosemary , tumeric, Chinese fivepice, jalapenos, diced zucchini , (needed more veggies) and subbed sofrita for the tomato paste. Was a hit with familia.
Kelly Bloom says
I'm glad to hear it!