Tortilla Soup
This crock meal comes together quick and easy and is full of good stuff, like chicken, beans, tomatoes, peppers, and onions. Tortilla Soup is comforting and satisfies on cold fall days!
I hesitated to share this recipe, because I think there are like 3.8568 bazillion recipes on the world wide web for tortilla soup, but then I thought I bet they’re not as easy and yummy as this one. This soup can be made and eaten right away, or sometimes I make it and throw it all together in the slow cooker turn it on low and let it go for a couple of hours, depends on schedules.
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How to make Tortilla Soup
- In a large soup pot, or dutch oven heat oil add onion, celery, and peppers saute until soft about 5 minutes.
- Add chicken, chicken stock, beans, Rotel tomatoes, and spices. The chicken can be from a rotisserie chicken, or you can cook 1.5 pounds of chicken breast and shred it. I like to cook several pounds of chicken meat in my crock pot or instant pot and shred it, then measure out 3 cups and put them in a zip-loc freezer bag. Label and date, then freeze for quick, easy dinner assembly.
- Bring soup to a low boil, turn stove tempurature and allow to simmer for 15 minutes.
- Serve: Crush tortilla chips or Doritos in the bottom of a bowl. Ladle soup over the chips, topping with toppings of your choice. Enjoy!
Crockpot method
- Place 1.5 pounds of uncooked chicken breasts in a crock pot, add 1 cup of broth, and cook on high for 2 hours. Remove the lid and shred the chicken with forks. Turn the heat to low, add the remaining ingredients, and allow to cook for an additional hour.
- Serve: Crush tortilla chips or Doritos in the bottom of a bowl. Ladle soup over the chips, topping with toppings of your choice. Enjoy!
HOW TO SERVE TORTILLA SOUP:
Slow cooker works great for those nights when everyone is coming and going and needs to eat at different times. I don’t know about you but I’m waving the white flag of surrender to family meal time. I just cannot get my family together. There aint no gathering in our eating. Shazbot! Here’s hoping this tortilla soup will gather your people together.
Most of the time I just whip this up last-minute, but like I said you can prepare in your crockpot and let simmer all day. It’s that easy! Make it and then bang a couple of pots and pans together and yell COME AND GET IT!!
Hope you enjoy! XO Sheila
Tortilla Soup
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil or olive oil
- 1 cup chopped onion
- 1 whole red bell pepper cored, seeded and diced
- 1 whole green pepper cored, seeded, and diced
- 1 cup diced celery
- 3 cups shredded cooked chicken
- 4 cups chicken stock
- 48 ounces great norther beans
- 10 ounce can rotel original diced tomatoes
- 1 tbsp chili powder
- 1 tsp cumin
- 1/2 tsp salt more to your taste
- 1/2 tsp ground oregano
- 1/4 tsp garlic powder
- Garnish: tortilla chips, grated cheese, sour cream, diced avocado, cilantro
Instructions
- In a large soup pot or Dutch oven, heat oil. Add onion, celery, and peppers, saute until soft, about 5 minutes.ft about 5 minutes.
- Add chicken, chicken stock, beans, Rotel tomatoes, and spices. The chicken can be from a rotisserie chicken, or you can cook 1.5 pounds of chicken breast and shred it. I like to cook several pounds of chicken meat in my crock pot or instant pot and shred it, then measure out 3 cups and put them in a zip-loc freezer bag. Label and date, then freeze for quick, easy dinner assembly.
- Bring soup to a low boil, turn stove tempurature and allow to simmer for 15 minutes.
- Serve: Crush tortilla chips or Doritos in the bottom of a bowl. Ladle soup over the chips, topping with toppings of your choice. Enjoy!
Crock pot:
- Place 1.5 pounds of uncooked chicken breasts in a crock pot, add 1 cup of broth, and cook on high for 2 hours. Remove the lid and shred the chicken with forks. Turn the heat to low, add the remaining ingredients, and allow to cook for an additional hour.
- Serve: Crush tortilla chips or Doritos in the bottom of a bowl. Ladle soup over the chips, topping with toppings of your choice. Enjoy!
Notes
Nutrition
Sounds delicious! Making this for my family today!
I thought I was the only mother who called for teenagers to come to dinner (and didn’t) so I banged pots one day. I was very loud but they came. They would have come faster if this soup had been on the table. We all loved tortilla soup.
OH my one of my biggest pet peeves is getting dinner all on the table and waiting as the team slowly rolls in. I can remember sitting at the table waiting for my mom to put dinner on. Seriously. Kids these days!! LOL