Condensed Cream Soup Recipe – No MSG
What is MSG?
Back to the recipe! It’s super easy to make and doesn’t alter the flavor of recipes at all that call for canned soup.
I am going to give you the cream of chicken, cream of mushroom, cream of celery, AND cream of tomato soup recipes.
I will list the ingredients for the cream soup base; which will be the same for all the recipes, then you can switch out the other ingredients for the different kinds of soups.
Cream soup base Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 1 cup milk or stock ( Chicken, veggie or even powdered milk can be used).
If making stock from bouillon or soup base, 1 tsp. per cup of liquid (McCormick Chicken and Beef Base from Costco doesn’t have MSG)
If you want to make a quadruple batch and freeze (which I like to do), here are the measurements:
- 1/2 cup flour
- 1/2 cup butter
- 4 cups liquid
- 1 tsp. garlic salt
Instructions:
- Melt butter in a saucepan over medium heat.
- Add flour, and stir with a wire whisk until well combined.
- Stir in salt and liquid and whisk until thickened and smooth. (If you need it thicker or thinner for your recipe, adjust the liquid amount)
- Add the remaining ingredients and mix well.
Cream of Chicken Soup Base
This makes a really good chicken gravy as well!!!
- 1/4 tsp. garlic powder instead regular salt
- 1/2 tsp. onion powder
- 1 tsp. instant chicken bouillon granules or chicken base
- 1 cup water
- 1/2 cup finely chopped cooked chicken (optional)
Cream of mushroom soup ingredients
- 1 cup beef beef bouillon or 1 tsp beef base and 1 cup water
- 1/2 cup finely chopped mushrooms
Cream of celery soup
- 1/2 cup chopped celery, saute with the butter
Tomato soup
- 1 cup tomato juice instead of water or milk (For cream of tomato soup, add 1/2 cup tomato juice and 1/2 cup milk).
This isn’t quite as fast as opening a can, but when you can avoid MSG, it’s worth it!
I hope you’ll give it a whirl in your favorite recipes.
Cream of Chicken Soup Base - No MSG
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Make all your recipes that call for canned cream soups without the MSG! A great tasting, easy to make alternative. Make a yummy gravy as well.
- Prep Time10 min
- Cook Time5 min
- Total Time15 min
- Yield1 cup
- Serving Size1/2 cup
Ingredients
Add these ingredients to the base soup ingredients
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 1 cup milk or stock ( Chicken, veggie or even powdered milk can be used)
- 1/4 tsp. garlic powder instead regular salt
- 1/2 tsp. onion powder
- 1 tsp. instant chicken bouillon granules or chicken base
- 1 cup water
- 1/2 cup finely chopped cooked chicken (optional)
Instructions
INSTRUCTIONS
Melt butter in saucepan over medium heat.
Add flour, stir with wire whisk until well combined.
Stir in salt and liquid and whisk until thickened and smooth. (If you need it thicker or thinner for your recipe, adjust liquid amount)
Stir in salt and liquid and whisk until thickened and smooth. (If you need it thicker or thinner for your recipe, adjust liquid amount)
Add the remaining ingredients and mix well.
Cream of Mushroom Soup
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Make all your recipes that call for canned cream soups without the MSG! A great tasting, easy to make alternative. Make a yummy gravy as well.
- Prep Time10 min
- Cook Time5 min
- Total Time15 min
- Yield1 cup
- Serving Size1/2 cup
Ingredients
Add these ingredients to the base soup ingredients
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 1 cup milk or stock ( Chicken, veggie or even powdered milk can be used).
- 1 cup beef bouillon or 1 tsp beef base and 1 cup water
- 1/2 cup finely chopped mushrooms
Instructions
INSTRUCTIONS
Melt butter in saucepan over medium heat.
Stir in salt and liquid and whisk until thickened and smooth. (If you need it thicker or thinner for your recipe, adjust liquid amount)
Stir in salt and liquid and whisk until thickened and smooth. (If you need it thicker or thinner for your recipe, adjust liquid amount)
Add the remaining ingredients and mix well.
Cream Of Celery Soup
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Make all your recipes that call for canned cream soups without the MSG! A great tasting, easy to make alternative. Make a yummy gravy as well.
- Prep Time10 min
- Cook Time5 min
- Total Time15 min
- Yield1 cup
- Serving Size1/2 cup
Ingredients
Add these ingredients to the base soup ingredients
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 1 cup milk or stock ( Chicken, veggie or even powdered milk can be used).
- 1/2 cup chopped celery, sauté with the butter
Instructions
INSTRUCTIONS
Melt butter in saucepan over medium heat.
Stir in salt and liquid and whisk until thickened and smooth. (If you need it thicker or thinner for your recipe, adjust liquid amount)
Stir in salt and liquid and whisk until thickened and smooth. (If you need it thicker or thinner for your recipe, adjust liquid amount)
Add the remaining ingredients and mix well.
Cream Of Tomato Soup
Share The Love:
Make all your recipes that call for canned cream soups without the MSG! A great tasting, easy to make alternative. Make a yummy gravy as well.
- Prep Time10 min
- Cook Time5 min
- Total Time15 min
- Yield1 cup
- Serving Size1/2 cup
Ingredients
Add these ingredients to the base soup ingredients
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 1 cup tomato juice instead of water or milk (For cream of tomato soup, add 1/2 cup tomato juice and 1/2 cup milk).
Instructions
INSTRUCTIONS
Melt butter in saucepan over medium heat.
Stir in salt and liquid and whisk until thickened and smooth. (If you need it thicker or thinner for your recipe, adjust liquid amount)
Stir in salt and liquid and whisk until thickened and smooth. (If you need it thicker or thinner for your recipe, adjust liquid amount)
Add the remaining ingredients and mix well.
5 Comments
Such a smart and helpful recipe, I love how you show people how to make a creamy soup base without any added MSG — it feels much healthier than store-bought canned soups. The use of simple, everyday ingredients like flour, butter, and milk or stock makes it easy for anyone to try. Plus, offering different variations is great for flexibility. Thanks for sharing this clean, homemade alternative — I’ll definitely be bookmarking it for casseroles and soups.
You are so welcome.
Thanks for this info. I’m allergic to MSG and I as I do the cooking, I skip what sound like very good recipes because they call for condensed soups. The store bought ones always seem to have MSG in them even by “other” (wink wink) names. As an example, before I found your recipe today, I had Googled no MSG condensed soups and one of the results good ‘ol AI came up with was a line of Campbells soups. So I go look at the ingredients and yes, no MSG but there is “yeast extract” which is just one of many names for MSG. Smh….
I appreciate your feedback! Good to know.
Just an FYI….your recommended McCormick Chicken and Beef Base is most likely FULL of MSG. The chicken part has ” natural flavorings” and the beef “autolyzed yeast extract”. Both also contain disodium inosinate and disodium guanylate. They are almost always mixed together with MSG because they make each other taste much stronger. So, if these 2 flavor enhancers are part of an ingredient list, chances are good that so is MSG even if disguised by using a different name(s) as mentioned in the first sentence here.