Chicken Tortilla Soup
Chicken tortilla soup is a hearty, flavorful broth with tender rotisserie chicken, corn, bell peppers, and crispy tortilla strips, finished with fresh toppings like avocado, cheese, and lime.
Ingredients
- 3 Mexican dried chilis, boil in 1 cup water for 5 minutes, then rough chop and set aside, keep the water
- 5 Roma tomatoes, harbroiled, gently remove as much black skin as possible, rough chop 4 of the tomatoes and put the 5th tomato aside, chopped, to add to broth
- 1 red bell pepper, charbroiled, then gently remove as much black skin as possible, remove seeds then rough chop
- 1 yellow or orange bell pepper, charbroiled, then gently remove as much black skin as possible, remove seeds then rough chop
- ½ onion, charbroiled, rough chopped
- 4 garlic cloves
- 32 oz + 2 cups low sodium chicken broth
- 3 thyme sprigs
- 2 bay leaves
- 2 ears of corn, cut and remove kernels
- 1½ Tbsp kosher salt
- ½ tsp black pepper
- ½ tsp sugar
- 2 tsp ground cumin
- 2 chicken breasts, roasted, shredded
Optional garnish:
- corn tortillas, cut into strips and deep fry for a couple of minutes
- squeeze of lime
- cilantro
- Mexican crema
- guacamole or sliced avocado
- shredded Mexican cheese, or shredded panela queso or shredded mozzarella cheese
Instructions
- In a small saucepan, add 3 Mexican dried chilis to a cup of water and boil for 5 minutes. Set aside and keep the water. Remove stems and do a rough chop of the Mexican chilis.
- Charbroil tomatoes, bell peppers and onion.
- In an electric mixer or blender, add the boiled Mexican dried chilis, water that it was boiled in, the charbroiled tomatoes, bell peppers and onion, plus the garlic cloves and puree for a minute until everything is blended.
- In a pot, on medium high heat, add cooking oil and fry the pureed mix for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Add the rest of the ingredients, including chopped 4th tomato. Bring it to a boil then reduce heat to medium then cook it for 30 minutes to reduce the soup, stirring occasionally.
- When done, ladle soup into a soup bowl and serve with preferred garnish!
Nutrition
Serving: 1portion | Calories: 201kcal | Carbohydrates: 17g | Protein: 26g | Fat: 4g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Trans Fat: 0.01g | Cholesterol: 58mg | Sodium: 2265mg | Potassium: 888mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 7g | Vitamin A: 2223IU | Vitamin C: 76mg | Calcium: 41mg | Iron: 2mg