Chicken Wild Rice Soup

Patty’s Chicken Wild Rice Soup

½ c. butter
¾ c. onion, chopped
¼ c. flour
4 c. chicken broth
1 c. carrots, grated
1 c. celery, diced
2 c. cooked wild rice
1 c. cooked chicken, chopped
1/2 c. cooked bacon, chopped
salt and pepper to taste
1 c. half & half
½ c. slivered almonds

Saute onion in butter. Add flour and broth; thicken. Add other ingredients except almonds. Simmer over low heat until all flavors blend. Add almonds. Serve hot.

If you want the tasteless version use olive oil instead of butter, skim milk instead of half & half, low sodium chicken broth, and don't put in the bacon.

And for all you poetry lovers, here is the month of May from Maurice Sendak's Chicken Soup With Rice book...

"In May
I truly think it best
to be a robin
lightly dressed
concocting soup
inside my next.
Mix it once
mix it twice
mix that chicken soup
with rice."

Who doesn't love that?