Homemade Cream of Chicken Soup is a wonderful, flavorful, healthy alternative to commercial canned cream soups. It's easy to make and freezes beautifully.
In a large saucepan, melt the butter. Whisk in the flour and cook, stirring until bubbly and fragrant. Whisk in the stock and milk slowly. Add the salt, garlic powder, onion powder, paprika, and black pepper. Simmer until thickened. Stir in the minced chicken.
Use in recipes calling for cream of chicken soup.
To freeze, chill the soup completely before storing in 2-cup portions in the freezer.Thaw and whisk to recombine before using.
Notes
Use a whole chicken! Cooking a whole chicken (or buying one that Costco roasted for you) can be more economical than buying chicken pieces. You can use the carcass to make homemade stock. You'll only need a small amount of chicken meat for the soup itself, meaning you can are basically using the leftovers to make this soup. You can easily make this homemade cream of chicken soup with turkey when the whole birds go on sale in the fall. Just call it cream of turkey. ;)