Chicken noodle soup.

>>8166211
fuck noodles, use dumplings instead. Recipe is literally eggs, flour, and a little salt until it's gummy, then fork it into the boiling water.

Other than that, home made chicken stock, chicken, carrot, celery, onion, and seasonings.

>>8166216
I really like dumplings, but I'm cooking for family and my sister eats like a toddler, even though she's 22. Dumplings taste better, but she refuses to eat them because of the texture. She doesn't even eat spaghetti. What seasonings would you suggest? I usually keep it light because my sister is picky as hell and if I change anything, even for the better, she'll throw a fit.

>>8166211
I brown my chicken on the bone in oil, remove it, saute the vegetables, add the stock and chicken, simmer for 45 minutes, remove chicken, and take meat off bone. Cook vegetables and stock 30 more minutes, add chicken and noodles and cook until noodles done.

I've never noticed the chicken being dry.

>>8166235
thyme and black pepper, mainly. I think most of the flavor should be from a good home-made chicken stock (so I guess that would also include a bay leaf) and the onion.

>>8166211
Meat protein can get overcooked when you boil it to death
I'm going to guess you are making stock from the meat you are serving in the soup. You can't. You use premade stock, or you make stock separately. And the meat goes in only long enough to be done. Or, you decide you don't mind overcooked meat if you are going to do it all at once. Simmering at lower heat helps though.