This creamy chicken wild rice soup is a delicious bowl of comfort. The recipe originated in the early ‘80s in the Byerly’s St. Paul, MN grocery store deli. It was produced in small batches and packaged in mason jars. Lunds (another Minnesota grocery store) also made a wild rice soup, albeit a slightly different recipe with both white and wild rice and chicken. A few years after Lunds and Byerly’s merged, they consolidated the wild rice soups and the Byerly’s version became the standard. This recipe has chicken in it instead of the ham so it is basically the recipe from Lunds (you can easily swap out the chicken for…