Mexican Chicken Tortilla Soup
A fiesta for your mouth!
Servings: 8 servings
Calories: 168kcal
Ingredients
Soup
- ½ onion diced
- 1 clove garlic minced
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 14 ounces canned tomato sauce
- 14 ounces canned diced tomatoes
- 10 ounces canned corn
- 1 jalapeno minced
- 1 zucchini cubed
- 1 carrot cubed
- 1 tablespoon cumin
- ¼ teaspoon crushed red pepper
- 1 LB cooked chicken or turkey shredded
- 4 cups chicken broth
- juice from 1 lime
- 1 bunch of cilantro chopped
Tortilla Strips
- 3 corn tortillas
- olive oil
- kosher salt
Instructions
Soup
- In an 8-quart Crock-Pot® Express Crisp Pressure Cooker, heat oil on saute mode and add onions and garlic.
- Cook until onions are translucent and soft.
- Add tomato sauce, diced tomatoes, corn, carrots, zucchini, jalapeno, cilantro, lime juice, cumin, crushed red pepper, broth and shredded chicken (or turkey).
- Cook on manual for 2 minutes. Use a quick release to release the pressure.
- Serve with tortilla strips, cheese, sour cream, and avocado.
Tortilla Strips
- Brush tortillas with olive oil using a pastry brush and cut into strips using a pizza cutter.
- Place In an 8-quart Crock-Pot® Express Crisp Pressure Cooker and cover with cripsing lid. Cook on air fry for 7-10 minutes until crisp.
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Notes
Stove/Oven Instructions
Soup- In a dutch oven, add olive oil. Heat over medium-high heat.
- Add onion and garlic, cook until onions are translucent.
- Add tomato sauce, diced tomatoes, corn, carrots, zucchini, jalapeno, cilantro, lime juice, cumin, crushed red pepper, broth and shredded chicken (or turkey). Bring to a boil.
- Boil until carrots are tender, then reduce heat to simmer.
- Serve with tortilla strips, cheese, sour cream, and avocado.
- Preheat over to 350 degrees.
- Brush tortillas with olive oil using a pastry brush and cut into strips.
- The easiest and fastest way is to cut them with a pizza cutter.
- Place on a baking sheet that has been sprayed with Pam and bake for about 10 minutes or until they are golden brown.
- Give them a toss halfway through.
Tortilla Soup Q&A
What kind of chicken should I use? There are a few options for choosing your cooked chicken. Let me go over a few:- Shred the breast meat from a rotisserie chicken. I love this little cooking tip. The chicken is so tender and delicious.
- Cook chicken breasts in the pressure cooker and shred. Just use the poultry setting and allow a natural release.
- Boil chicken breasts and shred.
- Use leftover Thanksgiving turkey, shredded.
- tortilla strips
- cheese
- sour cream
- avocado
- cilantro
Nutrition
Calories: 168kcal | Carbohydrates: 17g | Protein: 16g | Fat: 5g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 36mg | Sodium: 899mg | Potassium: 732mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 5g | Vitamin A: 1676IU | Vitamin C: 25mg | Calcium: 55mg | Iron: 2mg