Chicken soup with alphabet noodles

Ingredients for 4 servings:

• 200 g chicken breast
• 2 bunch soup vegetables (carrot, celery, leek, parsley), cleaned
• 200 g cauliflower
• 1 onion(s), red
• some sage, dried
• some thyme, dried
• 2 bay leaves
• a few stalks of chives
• 150 g soup noodles (alphabet noodles)
• salt and pepper

Instructions

Working time approx. 20 minutes; Cooking/baking time approx. 40 minutes; Total time approx. 1 hour

Low-fat

Fill a pot with about 1 liter of water. Add the chicken breast, onion, 1 carrot, 1 piece of celery, and the two bay leaves to the pot. Salt the water well and taste for saltiness. Boil for 20 minutes. Then remove everything and discard the onion and bay leaves. Chop the remaining raw carrots and celery, as well as the cauliflower, into bite-sized pieces, add to the boiling broth, and cook for 10 minutes. Finely chop the leek, add it, and cook for 1 minute. Meanwhile, in a second pot of fresh, salted water, cook the alphabet pasta according to the package instructions. Cut the initially cooked vegetables and meat into bite-sized pieces and add to the soup. Chop the parsley and chives and add them to the pasta. Season to taste with sage, thyme, salt, and pepper. Enjoy!