Chicken Egg Drop Soup
Instant soup with chicken and freeze-dried eggs. Hot and ready in ten minutes.
- calories
- 270
- weight
- 3.7 oz
- cal / oz
- 73
- protein
- 28 g
- serves
- 1, scales
- prep
- 2 min
- cook
- 8 min
- total time
- 10 min
- water
- 240 ml boiled
- cost
- $
Calorie and protein figures are my own estimates, good enough for planning a food bag and not meant as precise nutrition data.
- Dinner
- Canister stove
- Alcohol / Esbit
- Backpacking
- Winter / snow
- Dairy free
- Nut free
- One pot
- Grab and go
- Shelf stable
- Dump and stir
Ingredients
| Dried onion | 1 tbsp | |
|---|---|---|
| Dried diced carrots | 1 tbsp | |
| Freeze-dried egg powder | 2 tbsp | |
| Lipton Cup of Soup | 1 packet | Chicken Noodle or your preferred flavor |
| Pouched chicken breast | 1 packet (2.6 oz) | single-serving ready-to-eat pouch |
Method
- Bring 1 cup of water to a boil in your pot.
- Add the dried onion and carrots. Let them soften for about a minute.
- Add the chicken pouch, breaking it into chunks as you stir. Add the soup packet and stir until combined.
- In a cup or bag, mix the egg powder with 3 tablespoons of cold water until smooth.
- Reduce heat to low. Slowly pour the egg mixture into the soup while stirring constantly.
- Remove from heat and let sit until cool enough to eat.
The freeze-dried eggs do the real work here. They don’t just add protein—when you stir them in off-heat, they scramble into soft curds and thicken the broth instead of leaving you with weak soup floating in water. The instant soup handles the salt and flavor; the chicken pouch handles the weight that makes this feel like dinner instead of a cup of broth.
This is ten minutes from start to eating on a winter night. Everything is shelf-stable and light. No fresh ingredients, no guessing on rehydration, and only one pot to wipe clean. That is why you carry it.
Packing
Dried onion and carrots go together in one snack-size bag. Egg powder in another. Keep the soup packet and chicken pouch separate. At camp you are mixing one cold thing with one hot thing.
Variations
- Different Lipton soup flavors work—tomato, vegetable, or beef. The method doesn't change.
- Pouched chicken comes in multiple flavors; lemon pepper gives more depth than plain.
- Add soy sauce or hot sauce at the end if you're carrying a bottle.
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