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Chicken Tortilla Soup
Chicken Tortilla Soup with tender chicken and homemade crispy tortilla strips is the perfect, cold-weather weeknight dinner. What’s even better? It comes together in one pot.
👥 6 Servings⏱️ Prep & Cook: 45 min⏳ Prep: 15 min🔥 Cook: 30 min👤 Natalya Drozhzhin📖 natashaskitchen
🥘 Ingredients
Check off ingredients as you prepare them:
🍳 Cookware
- ●pan
- ●pot
- ●dutch oven
- ●oven
📝 Preparation Steps
1
Tortilla Strips:
2
Prepare Chips
3
Preheat a pan with 1/4 cup oil over medium-high heat. Cut tortillas into thin strips and fry them in batches in the hot oil until crisp. Remove from the pan and allow them to drain on a paper towel. Repeat with remaining tortilla strips, adding more oil as needed then set aside.
4
Chicken Tortilla Soup:
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Cook Veggies
6
Preheat a pot or dutch oven with olive oil over medium-high heat. Add chopped onion, garlic, and chopped jalapeño and sauté until veggies soften.
7
Cook Soup
8
Add chicken broth, crushed tomatoes, chicken breasts, corn, beans, chili powder, cumin, salt. Bring to a boil and let simmer for about ⏱️ 20 minutes or until chicken is just cooked through and easy to shred.
chicken broth32 ozchicken breasts ((2 medium), or leftover rotisserie chicken*)1 lbsalt (or to taste)1 tsp
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Shred Chicken
10
Remove chicken from the pot and shred it using 2 forks. Add shredded chicken back to the soup and simmer another ⏱️ 5 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in cilantro and lime juice.
Tbsp lime juice (from 1 lime, or to taste)1 1/2lime (cut into wedges, to serve)1
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Serve the soup garnished with some tortilla strips, diced avocado, fresh cilantro and lime wedges, or use your favorite toppings.
large avocado (diced)1Tbsp lime juice (from 1 lime, or to taste)1 1/2lime (cut into wedges, to serve)1
Nutrition Facts
calories
539 kcal
fat Content
24 g
serving Size
1 serving
fiber Content
13 g
sugar Content
8 g
sodium Content
1112 mg
protein Content
30 g
trans Fat Content
0.01 g
cholesterol Content
48 mg
carbohydrate Content
55 g
saturated Fat Content
4 g
unsaturated Fat Content
19 g
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