This Creamy Olive Soup is a delicious and elegant soup and with white wine, both black and pimento-stuffed olives, and cream, is a knockout anytime of year. This can be served as a first course, or add some chicken to make a heartier entrée.
Looking for more ways to use olives in your meal plans? Check out this recipe for Braised Chicken with Lemons, Potatoes and Olives.
Calling all olive aficionados. To me, this is classic country inn fare. Not hip or bizarre, not for the fat gram conscious, yet just delicious and interesting enough to be out of the ordinary.
The flavors of chicken breast and white wine welcome green and black olives to mix. Half and half makes it creamy and it just seems to say celebratory and special.
Inspiration for this Olive Soup Recipe
This recipe comes from my all time favorite soup cookbook, Dairy Hollow House. A cookbook born from a Country Bed and Breakfast in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.
And if a recipe comes from a Bed and Breakfast, it’s almost guaranteed to be delicious and comfort food forward. This recipe most certainly doesn’t disappoint.
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The argument for making Homemade Chicken Stock
The foundation of a good soup is always the stock. And more important than with anything else, homemade stock is always more flavorful and special than purchased.
Stock is a flavorful liquid in which meat, fowl, or vegetables have been cooked, and to which they have been given their essence. It’s a component that makes soup … soup.
Even though stocks can take some time to make, they are not, as a rule time consuming in active preparation. So, if you can take an afternoon and dedicate the time to make your own chicken stock, please do. You can store it away in containers in the freezer to keep you warm all Winter long with beautiful soups.
Enough for two meals, I changed it up a bit for leftovers and made it a triple olive soup with a sprinkle of sliced green olives stuffed with jalapenos.
With that said, let’s take a look at this incredible Olive Soup Recipe.
Recipe for Creamy Olive Soup with Chicken Breast and White Wine
I hope you give this olive soup recipe a try. It’s out of this world unique and delicious with flavor and lovely with texture.
More Creamy Soup Recipes
- Southwestern Cheesy Creamy Chicken Soup Ground Chicken Breast, Hatch Chile and Muenster Cheese come together for this hearty crowd pleasing soup.
- Creamy Crockpot Chicken Wild Rice Soup Healthy with wild rice, rich, creamy, and a cinch made in your slow cooker.
- Creamy Sauerkraut and Sausage Soup with Potatoes A jar of sauerkraut in the pantry, a few potatoes on the counter and some sour cream in the fridge turned into a creamy comforting soup for dinner.
And don’t miss my Soup Category, you’ll find a ton of slurp worthy recipes. Including the most popular soup recipe on my site for Old Fashioned Taco Soup With Ranch Dressing.
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Creamy Olive Soup Supreme
Ingredients
- 4 Tablespoons butter
- ¼ cup sweet onion diced
- ¼ cup carrot Diced
- ¼ cup celery Diced
- 5 Tablespoons flour
- 4 cups chicken stock
- 1 cup white wine
- 1 ½ cups half and half
- ½ cup cooked white rice
- ¼ cup each sliced large black and pimento-stuffed green olives
- ¼ cup frozen peas
- 2 cups cooked chicken breast cut in bite-sized pieces
- White pepper and salt if needed
Instructions
- In a saucepan melt 4 Tablespoons butter
- Saute ¼ cup each finely diced onion, carrot and celery
- When vegetables have softened sprinkle them with 5 T. unbleached white flour
- Gradually whisk in 4 C. chicken stock
- Stir vigorously with the whisk as you raise the heat to medium to prevent lumps. When stock is smooth and slightly thick, transfer from skillet to your soup pot. Add 1 C. white wine.
- Simmer for 20 minutes then stir in 1 ½ C. half and half.
- Lower heat, do not allow soup to boil.
- Add ½ C. cooked white rice
- ¼ C. each sliced large black and pimento-stuffed green olives.
- ¼ C. frozen peas
- 2 C. cooked chicken breast which has been cut into bite sized pieces.
- Heat through, taste and adjust seasonings. Sprinkle in some white pepper and salt if needed.
Nutrition
Creamy Olive Soup Supreme …It’s What’s For Dinner.
Why Trust These Recipes? Lea Ann Brown has lived, worked and played in Colorado for 45 years. She has immersed herself in the Colorado Culinary space, is a Culinary School Graduate and publishes her Colorado food Blog, Cooking On The Ranch.
Everything spinach catches my eye right now because I have quite a crop of little spinich leaves coming up in raised bed 1. Since husband won’t touch the stuff, it’s all mine. Now what shall I do with it all?
oh man, wish I had a crop of little spinach leaves. I’m wanting a raised garden in the back yard. Hopefully this year.
What a great looking soup! I’ve never heard of an olive soup, but your photos are making me drool!!
Thank you Barbara. It’s really a nice soup. Let me know if you give it a try and thanks for stopping by.
I adore salads anytime of year as well. Each season offers a new fruit or vegetable to vary your salads. That citrus dressing looks wonderful!
Thank you Christine, very well said. Thanks for stopping by and the comment.
With the coming of spring salads are a big part of our menu; often the only part and this salad look perfect.
A big thanks for the dressing too and I’m with you…why pay for inferior products at the grocery when a blend of ingredients on hand makes for such a superior, fresh result!
re: dressings
And so easy.
Thanks for stopping by Barb
This is a wonderful meal! I’ve never had olive soup and it’s time to try it. Looks so comforting.
I’m all about that soup.
I’m a soup freak-o Are you back in town already????
Looks like the perfect dinner to me! 😉 I am loving that olive soup–so different and looks so good. Let me know if you want to have them in the Souper Sunday round-up this week.
Thanks for the reminder Deb, it’s on it’s way to paradise.
I’ve never had olive soup… and this sounds really wonderful! This goes to the top of the ‘try now’ list!
I’m pretty sure you’ll like it. Let me know. Thanks for stopping by Liz
You know, I’ve never heard of olive soup before. But I adore olives. So basically. This may be what has been missing all my life.
I’m an olive fan myself. Always a jar in the fridge and a can in the pantry and a visit to Whole Foods is never complete without a trip to their olive bar.
I’m with you – soup and/or salad with bread = PERFECT! Girl, that salad dressing sounds delicious! I never think to use orange as my citrus, but I will do this soon. The olive soup sounds great, too – always love wine in a recipe! 😛
I really like wine in soups. As the saying goes, “I love cooking with wine and sometimes I even put it in the food”
That all looks great but the soup is the thing that is REALLY calling to me! 10 times yum! Alexis will love this one too.
Let me know if you give it a try and what you think. It’s really pretty easy to make. Thanks Chris
That is a delicious looking meal and I’m especially intrigued with the soup. To make it a perfect meal though, I think you need a little pork BBQ to go between those bread slices :-).
Ya know, I knew there was a reason that I hang out with you! You always know how to add that special touch to any meal! 🙂
That is an awfully good choice for a meal!
Thanks BD, as always thanks for stopping by and the comment.