This delicious POT PIE SOUP recipe is easy to make and picky eater approved. It’s flexible and can be made as a Chicken Pot Pie Soup, Vegetarian Pot Pie Soup, or it can be used as the filling for a Vegetarian Pot or Chicken Pot Pie, depending on your ingredients.
If you are looking for a quick comfort food dinner to gather you around the table, this Pot Pie Soup recipe is for you. As an added bonus, it’s a one pot meal!
Making Pot Pie Soup
My family absolutely loves chicken pot pie and it is a recipe they request often. I’ve been making different versions of this pot pie for years, often tweaking it to work with the ingredients I have on hand. Sometimes I make it as traditional chicken pot pie.
Other times I skip the chicken, add in potatoes, and we have a vegeterian pot pie. And there are times we skip the pie crust and eat it as a soup, instead of a pie. Today we are having pot pie, the soup edition!
What Ingredients Are In Pot Pie Soup?
One of the things that I love about this Pot Pie Soup recipe is how simple the ingredients are. This is one of those recipes where I usually have all the ingredients on hand. The ingredients you need to make this pot pie soup are as follows:
- Milk
- Chicken Broth
- Butter
- Flour
- Veggies Such As Peas, Carrots, Corn or Potatoes
- Seasonings
Optional Ingredients
Because this recipe is very forgiving, you can get pretty creative with your ingredients. While not absolutely required, I usually also include the following ingredients:
- Heavy Cream (amount in recipe can be replaced with additional milk)
- Diced or Shredded Chicken Breasts (can add more veggies in place of)
- Softened Cream Cheese (adds to the flavor, but not required)
- Pie Crust (if you want to go the pot pie route!)
- Minced Garlic
- Chopped Onion
As an optional garnish I like to use a cookie cutters to cut shapes out of ready made pie crust sheets. I give them a slight brushing with an eggwash (egg whites and water) and bake. Crackers or rolls are all great options as well. This biscuit recipe goes great with it, just leave out the ham and cheese.
To keep things easy, I typically use pre-cooked and leftover chicken breasts. It’s no secret that I love the ready-made pie dough, and I use that here. If I have leftover fresh veggies on hand, I’ll use those. Otherwise frozen veggies are my go-to for this recipe.
Making The Sauce For Pot Pie Soup
The sauce for this Pot Pie Soup starts with a simple butter and flour roux. After the roux is made, chicken stock, butter and heavy cream (optional) are added.
Because this recipe does not use many ingredients, it’s important to me to make sure that I am using the best quality ingredients possible, as they really impact the flavor. I always choose Shamrock Farms Milk and Heavy Cream for my recipes, and this one is no exception. Thank you to Shamrock Farms for sponsoring this post.
Milk
I love that Shamrock Farms milk has 8 grams of protein and 9 essential nutrients and in every 8oz serving, as well as being a fantastic source of calcium. With Shamrock Farms’ dairy here in the valley, it’s a great locally sourced product as well.
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How To Make Pot Pie Soup
Making Pot Pie Soup is very simple. If I’m using fresh garlic and onion, I will mince and dice those up, and cook them in my pain with a bit of olive oil. Once they are done, I’ll pull them out of the pan and set aside.
Next up is making a roux of butter and flour. After that’s come together, add your softened cream cheese. It’s very important to make sure your cream cheese is truly softened. If it’s not, you can end up with some cream cheese lumps in your soup (though they taste just fine!).
Following the cream cheese I add my onions and garlic back into the pan. After that chicken stock is added, then the milk and cream.
Cooking Pot Pie Soup
Once the sauce comes together I add my veggies and chicken if I’m using it. As I mentioned, I use frozen veggies most of the time when making this. Before I start my sauce I take my veggies out, place them in a strainer, and run them under some warm water. Basically I defrost the veggies, but do not cook them. Once defrosted they quickly cook when added to the sauce.
When I use potatoes, I prefer red potatoes. I peel and then cut them into fairly small pieces, usually smaller than 1/2″ in size. Since these don’t cook quite as quickly as the frozen veggies, I microwave them until they soften up. Depending on the size of the potato pieces, this usually takes me approximately four minutes. Once they have softened to being easily pierced with a fork, they are ready to add to my soup.
Once I get my veggies and potatoes added, if I’m using chicken, I’ll add it in next. I almost always use leftover or pre-cooked chicken for this, which is a great time saver.
Then it’s time to let it slowly simmer, while you keep giving it a stir bringing everything together. At that point you are ready to dish it up, or if you want to bake it into a pie crust, transfer it to your pie pan. We love it as traditional pot pie, but the soup route is a nice time saver.
Pot Pie Soup
Pot Pie Soup
Equipment
- Large Pot
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 2 tsp garlic minced
- 1/4 cup onion diced
- 4 tbsp butter
- 1/3 cup flour
- 2 oz cream cheese it must be softened to avoid lumps
- 2 tsp kosher salt adjust to taste
- 1 tsp black pepper adjust to taste
- 1/2 tsp dried thyme or seasoning of your choice
- 1 cup chicken broth
- 1 1/2 cups Shamrock Farms Whole Milk
- 1/2 cup Shamrock Farms Heavy Whipping Cream
- 3 cups mixed vegetables THAWED: small sized diced carrots, peas, corn and potatoes work well
- 1 cup diced, cooked chicken optional
Instructions
- In a large skillet, heat olive oil over medium heat. Add onion and garlic and cook until tender. Remove from skillet and set aside.
- Add butter to skillet and cook until melted. Add in flour and whisk until well combined. Add in softened cream cheese and spices and stir until combined.
- Pour chicken broth into skillet and whisk ingredients until are smooth. Add in milk and whisk again until smooth. Bring to a gentle simmer and continue whisking to avoid lumps. Add in heavy cream, and whisk until smooth.
- Add in veggies, potatoes, and/or chicken and stir to fully combine ingredients. Cook on a low simmer for approximately five minutes stirring regularly.
- Give the soup a taste to check and see if more seasoning is needed, and if so add salt, pepper and seasoning of choice accordingly.
- Serve immediately.
Notes
Nutrition
Other delicious soup recipes you might enjoy include:
- Sausage and Cheese Potato Soup
- Lasagna Soup
- Beef Stroganoff Soup
- Fresh Tomato Soup
- Hearty Italian Vegetable Beef Soup
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POT PIE SOUP RECIPE
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Susan Van Noy says
Looks delicious, going to try it this weekend..
Christi says
Susan, enjoy! This pot pie soup really is a family favorite for us!
RJ says
So yummy!
I made a bunch of extra hearts because CRUST!!!
Chhaperia pvt ltd says
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very nice… i really like your blog…
Brenda says
What a great soup, who doesn’t love pot pie?! Thank you so much for featuring my Lasagna Soup. 🙂