Halloween soup is a great way to fill your kiddos bellies with wholesome food before heading out to collect candy for Halloween. Bring the fun with this Chicken Boo-dle soup!
It’s Halloween night and your kids are begging to go trick or treating. But they have to eat dinner before they are allowed to go out.
You know that if you don’t get a good meal in their bellies now, there is no chance you’ll be able to convince them to eat something healthy later. SO what’s a mom to do?
Enter: Chicken Boo-dle Halloween Soup.
The fun, festive dinner is sure to win over your guys and ghouls while giving them a dose of ‘real’ food before the sugar hits.
Follow my recipe for foolproof chicken noodle soup or use a short-cut by grabbing a rotisserie chicken, shredding it, and adding it to some chicken stock. Then add some carrots, celery and cook it all together until the carrots and celery are soft.
Enjoy while listening to our favorite Halloween songs for kids!
Watch how to make Halloween Soup here:
Chicken Boo-dle Soup has 2 spooky components that make it perfect for Halloween – bats and pumpkins.
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How to dye pasta black for Halloween soup:
To make your bats, grab some black food dye and some bowtie pasta.
- Cook your pasta until just under al dente. Between soaking up dye and later going into hot soup, cooking your pasta any more than that will result in way over cooked pasta.
- Once cooked, drain, rinse in cold water, and drain as well as you can.
- Place into a gallon zip top bag, and add black food dye. I used about 15-20 drops for a pound of pasta. If you do some shaking and think that you need more, feel free to up it.
- Zip the bag up and shake it like crazy. This is a fun time to get the kids involved.
- Let it sit for at least an hour – overnight is better. They might look like you need more, add some but note: the dye will seep a bit more as it sits. Also, due to the type of pasta, you won’t get every single noodle totally black – at least, not without tons of dye.
- When you’re just about ready to serve, rinse your noodles very well, until the water is mostly clear. This will prevent tons of seeping into your soup.
Tips for making Halloween soup:
- Make the components ahead – make the sou ahead of time! Leave the pasta out and assemble before eating.
- I like to heat the soup really hot, then place the cold noodles in individual bowls. Top with hot soup and it will quickly cool to a kid safe temp.
- Kids don’t like soup? Strain out and serve like pasta! Top with grated Parmesan.
How to make Pumpkin Carrots
The pumpkin shaped carrots totally make this soup so much more fun. And it’s easier to make than you might think!
To make carrot pumpkins, I followed the tutorial from Little Dairy on the Prairie.
Peel your carrot and cut 2 shallow lines about 1/4 inch apart from each other. I found that it works best if you use chunks in about 3-4 inch length and make sure it’s a thicker chunk.
Cut in from each side and then using a vegetable peeler or a paring knife, round out the angle to create the top of a pumpkin.
Slice into little pumpkin coins and add to your soup as you would normal carrots.
Enjoy all October long, especially on Halloween as a fun and easy dinner before going truck or treating!
More Fun Halloween Food ideas to enjoy…
You May Need..
This recipe is super simple, but a few things might make it easier!
Black food dye
Zip top Bags
Peeler
If you want to skip the noodles, here are some fun Halloween pastas!
- Spider and Ghost Halloween shaped pasta
- Black and Orange Farfalle
- Bat, Pumpkin and Witch Pasta
- Black Bean Pasta
- Witch, Bat, Spider & Pumpkin Pasta
Chicken Boodle Halloween Soup Recipe
This Halloween soup recipe is perfect for an easy dinner. Your little ghouls and goblins will love it before going out for a night of fun!
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Chicken Boodle Halloween Soup
Ingredients
- Foolproof Chicken Soup
- Bowtie Pasta
- Black food dye
- Carrots
Instructions
How to make bat noodles
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Cook your pasta until just under al dente. Between soaking up dye and later going into hot soup, cooking your pasta any more than that will result in way over cooked pasta.
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Once cooked, drain, rinse in cold water, and drain as well as you can.
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Place into a gallon zip top bag, and add black food dye. I used about 15-20 drops for a pound of pasta. If you do some shaking and think that you need more, feel free to up it.
-
Zip the bag up and shake it like crazy. This is a fun time to get the kids involved.
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Let it sit for at least an hour – overnight is better. They might look like you need more, add some but note: the dye will seep a bit more as it sits. Also, due to the type of pasta, you won’t get every single noodle totally black – at least, not without tons of dye.
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When you’re just about ready to serve, rinse your noodles very well, until the water is mostly clear. This will prevent tons of seeping into your soup.
How to make Pumpkin Carrots
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Peel your carrot and cut 2 shallow lines about 1/4 inch apart from each other. I found that it works best if you use chunks in about 3-4 inch length and make sure it’s a thicker chunk.
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Cut in from each side,
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Using a vegetable peeler or a paring knife, round out the angle to create the top of a pumpkin.
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Cook the carrots in the soup.
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Serve pouring soup over cold noodles
Okay, so tell me – what did you eat before heading out to trick or treat as a kid? Festive food: yay or nay? Let me know in the comments!
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Amethyst says
This is so brilliant! I love this and I’m pinning it for later. Thanks so much!
Michele Morin says
What fun!
Sam says
Oh my gosh! This adorable! How fun!
Roseann Hampton says
What a cute idea! Pinning!
heather says
so fun! love it
marie says
Wish I had seen this before I made that big ol’ pot of chicken and dumplins last night! Fun and festive!
kristin mccarthy says
Whoa- this is some real parental over-achieving. I am VERY impressed!
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Brea says
Very cute! I have dyed pasta for crafts but never for a meal. My kids are too old to appreciate this, but it’s an adorable idea to keep in my arsenal.
I always tried to have a good meal for our kids before trick or treats, but I don’t ever recall my mom making a nutritious meal on Halloween. It could be that she thought the day was a bust (nutritionally, anyway) after a day of sugary cookies and candy at school, and trick-or-treating at night.
Sandra Garth says
This is so creative, alright Morgan!
Sammi Ricke says
This is the cutest Halloween recipe EVER! I already pinned it and can’t wait to share it with my followers 🙂 Your recipe totally needs to be on our table this Halloween!
Emily says
I love your Halloween twist on this classic! So cute! Thanks for linking up with Merry Monday.
Leslie says
What a fun idea! If only I could convince my kids to eat soup. ? I suppose I could just toss everything in a butter sauce and call it ‘pasta’ instead of soup. Thanks so much for sharing at the #happynowlinkup!
angie says
I love how fun you made that soup by dressing it up. I have always struggled to get kids to eat before trick or treating. This may just do the treat
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April J Harris says
Love how you dyed the pasta, Morgan. I did not know you could do that! This is such a fun, wholesome soup – what a great idea for Halloween. Pinned. Thank you for sharing with us at Hearth and Soul.
Miz Helen says
Congratulations!
Your recipe is featured on Full Plate Thursday this week and is pinned to our Full Plate Thursday Features Board! Enjoy your new Red Plate and have a great weekend!
Miz Helen
Chas says
Such a cute idea! My son would love this!