Wild Rice Autumn Soup

Serves: 8
Total Cook Time: 120
Prep Time: 60
Cook Time: 60

Ingredients

  • 2 lbs chicken
  • 6 cups vegetable broth
  • 2 cups uncooked wild rice
  • 8 oz baby bella mushrooms, sliced
  • 4 cloves garlic, minced
  • 3-4 medium carrots, diced
  • 4 ribs of celery, diced
  • 1 large (1 lbs) sweet potato, peeled/diced
  • 1 yellow onion, diced
  • 3 bay leaves
  • 2 cups lactose free vitamin D milk
  • 2 large handfuls of kale, roughly chopped with stems removed
  • Salt/Pepper to taste
  • 4 TBSP old bay seasoning

Instructions

  • Instant pot chicken via poultry setting for 10-12 minutes.
  • While chicken is cooking wash/prep veggies above kale. Place in large bowl.
  • Remove chicken from instant pot and set aside to shred later. Rinse instant pot.
  • Combine veg stock, wild rice, mushrooms, garlic, carrots, celery, sweet potato, onion, and old bay seasoning in instant pot. Add bay leaves.
  • Pressure-cook: high pressure 25 minutes. Naturally release 10 minutes then vent.
  • While cooking, shred chicken and roughly chop kale and place in large bowl.
  • Warm up milk in sauce pan, add cornstarch slurry if desired for thicker milk if not using coconut milk.
  • Once instant pot is completed cooking/venting, remove bay leaves.
  • Add milk and kale to soup, gently stir until combined. Add salt, pepper and bay seasoning to taste. Serve.