Copycat Bob Evans Chicken & Noodles

Comforting Copycat Bob Evans Chicken & Noodles is one of our favorite slow cooker recipes. With thick, amish noodles, it’s pure comfort food!

We love eating out together as a family. To put away phones and simply sit around a table in a restaurant (and have someone else serve you!) creates in me a satisfying, peaceful sigh. It’s so good.

But when you have a family of 5, it can often get expensive to eat out often. And sometimes sickness keeps you home. It’s in those times when it can be fun to recreate a favorite restaurant recipe together as a family.

Bob Evans Chicken & Noodles is one of my favorite restaurant meals because it is so comforting. Thick Amish-style noodles, shredded chicken, rich buttery broth and just a few basic veggies. And better yet? It’s made in the slow cooker. Fix & forget. So there’s nothing at the end of a long day preventing you from relaxing with your family.

I’ll walk you through the easy steps to make this ultimate comfort food soup!

How to Make Chicken & Noodles

Plan for about 7 hours on low or 4 hours on high for cooking this soup. But please note….don’t add the noodles until there is about an hour left in cooking. Otherwise they will get too soft.

• Add the chicken, chicken broth, and butter to a slow cooker. Really? 1 stick of butter? Yes. Just do it. It makes the broth so rich and flavorful.
• Then cut up the celery, carrots, and onions. We use yellow or white onions. We’ve used red onions in a pinch, but they do have a much stronger flavor. Add them to the slow cooker.
• Add your pepper and salt. Now this can be to taste. The broth will have salt and if you use salted butter that will also add salt. You can wait to add salt to each bowl at the end if you are limiting salt intake.
• Let it simmer in the slow cooker for 4 hours if you put it on high, or 7 hours if you put it on low.

• With 1 hour remaining, remove the chicken and shred it with a fork. 

• Then put the chicken back in and add the noodles. We like to buy Amish noodles (we’ve done both wide and thin cut) or you can buy frozen Reames homestyle noodles. If you buy those, follow the instructions on the back of the package you buy for how long to cook them.

The noodles will be ready in about an hour.

**Scroll underneath the recipe for serving ideas and substitutions.**

Love this soup? Try it with potatoes in our Chicken Potato Soup recipe.

Bob Evans Chicken & Noodles {Copycat Recipe}

4.45 from 29 votes

Comforting Copycat Bob Evans Chicken & Noodles is one of our favorite slow cooker recipes. With thick, amish noodles, it’s pure comfort food!

Servings 10 servings

Prep Time 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time 7 hours hours

Total Time 7 hours hours 10 minutes minutes

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Ingredients

 

• 9 cups chicken stock
• 3/4 cup chopped carrots
• 3/4 cup chopped celery
• 1 cup chopped onion
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 pounds boneless skinless chicken breast
• 16 ounces homestyle noodles

Instructions

 

• Add the chicken broth, chicken, butter, carrots, celery, onion, pepper and salt to the slow cooker.
•  Cook this on low for 7 hours or on high for 3-4 hours. 
  
• Remove the chicken and shred it with a fork. 
  
• Return the chicken to the slow cooker and add the noodles to cook for another hour.
  
• Serve.

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Notes

The calories shown are based on the recipe serving 10, with 1 serving being just under 2 cups of soup. Since different brands of ingredients have different nutritional information, the calories shown are just an estimate. **We are not dietitians and recommend you seek a nutritionist for exact nutritional information.**

Nutrition

Serving: 432g | Calories: 449kcal | Carbohydrates: 43g | Protein: 32g | Fat: 16g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Cholesterol: 127mg | Sodium: 634mg | Potassium: 747mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 6g | Vitamin A: 1983IU | Vitamin C: 4mg | Calcium: 39mg | Iron: 2mg

Author Julie Clark

Course Main Dish

Cuisine American

Calories 449

Keyword comfort food, crockpot, slow cooker recipe

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Adapted from Food.com

Can you make chicken & noodles in the instant pot?

Yes! This recipe is much quicker in the Instant Pot. Here’s how to do it:

• Add the chicken stock, chicken, butter and veggies to the IP.
• Put the lid on your pot, set the steam release knob to the seal.
• Press the manual, or Pressure Cook button and then set to high pressure, 12 minutes.
• When the 12 minutes is done, allow the pot to naturally release for 10 minutes.
• Release remaining pressure, then remove chicken.
• Add the noodles into the IP with the cooked broth. Stir well. Set the IP to saute to keep the broth warm. The noodles will take about 10 minutes to soften. Stir several times during this 10 minutes.
• Shred the chicken with a fork and add it back in while the noodles are softening.

What to Serve with Chicken and Noodles

This recipe is perfect served with a side salad and fresh homemade bread. Here are a few favorites:

• Soft Dinner Rolls
• Everything Italian Bread
• Potato Bread

And try some homemade chocolate chip cookies for dessert!

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