Rooster tortilla soup pairs crispy home-cooked tortilla strips with a hearty, filling soup. It comes collectively in beneath 45 minutes and is completely loaded with taste! Recipe features a how-to video!
The Coziest Tortilla Soup
My hen tortilla soup deserves a spot in your dinner rotation this season. It’s hearty, tremendous filling, and has only a contact of cream cheese to make it barely creamy however not too wealthy. Crispy home made tortilla strips (they’re really easy to make, I promise!) add the proper crunch and make this an entire meal in a bowl!
This soup is loaded with protein from shredded hen and black beans. It’s a (principally) healthful, but nonetheless indulgent meal that’s comforting and excellent as a weeknight dinner or chilly climate consolation meals (like my creamy hen noodle soup).
What’s to Love About This Recipe
- Quick: simply 35 minutes to make. And that features making the home made tortilla strips!
- Unimaginable taste from a bacon base, fireplace roasted tomatoes, ancho chili powder, and some extra particular elements.
- Makes use of pre-cooked hen, so it’s nice for utilizing up leftover hen or a rotisserie hen from the shop.
- Straightforward: the ingredient checklist on this recipe is perhaps lengthy, however the precise course of is so easy. We’re actually simply tossing every thing into the pot!
- You possibly can customise your spice stage relying in your tastes. As is, this soup is delicate. Nevertheless it’s very straightforward to boost; scroll right down to the FAQ part for more information.
What You Want
Let’s go over just a few of the important thing elements that give this soup its taste. You’ll find the complete checklist of elements additional down into the publish within the recipe card.
- Bacon. Whereas it might be an unlikely suspect, this secret ingredient creates an amazingly flavorful base, similar to in my potato soup recipe. Should you don’t need to use bacon, that’s superb! I present directions on how one can make this soup with out bacon within the recipe notes under.
- Chili powder. Like in my award-winning chili recipe, we’re utilizing a mix of normal and ancho chili powder for essentially the most depth of taste. Should you don’t have ancho chili powder, you may simply use all common chili powder as an alternative. The ancho provides a pleasant smoky aspect although, which I really like!
- Fireplace roasted tomatoes. Should you can’t discover fireplace roasted, plain diced tomatoes work simply superb, however I choose the smoky depth of taste the hearth roasted model affords.
- Sugar. I do know, I do know–we usually save the sugar for the desserts, however only a teaspoon right here actually rounds out the flavors. I additionally use sugar in my sloppy joes recipe and tomato soup recipe, so this shouldn’t shock you an excessive amount of!
- Cream cheese. This thickens the soup and provides a number of taste. You possibly can all the time skip it for a thinner soup with a extra tomato-y base, however I really like the creaminess it provides.
SAM’S TIP: I choose to make use of rotisserie hen for this recipe; it’s straightforward and cheap to purchase one from the grocery retailer, shred it, and toss it into the soup. You possibly can additionally make my straightforward crockpot shredded hen and use that as an alternative.
Bear in mind, that is simply an outline of the elements I used and why. For the complete recipe please scroll right down to the underside of the publish!
Easy methods to Make Rooster Tortilla Soup
- Prepare dinner the bacon till crisp, then take away to a paper towel lined plate.
- Prepare dinner the onion, pepper, and jalapeno within the bacon grease and till translucent. Add garlic and cook dinner till aromatic.
- Stir within the inventory, diced tomatoes, beans, enchilada sauce, corn, chilis, spices, and hen.
- Let the soup simmer when you put together your tortilla strips (demonstrated under).
- Add cream cheese and lime juice and stir till the cream cheese is melted.
- Serve topped with tortilla strips and different toppings (ideas under!)
SAM’S TIP: Preheat your oven earlier than you begin the soup, that manner it has time to get good and scorching in your tortilla strips!
Easy methods to Make the Tortilla Strips
The crispy corn tortilla strips are probably my favourite a part of this soup. When you might simply purchase pre-made strips, it takes solely minutes to make them at residence utilizing corn tortillas.
- Lower 10 corn tortillas into ¼” strips (mine often find yourself thicker than this, however I all the time intention for ¼”) after which minimize strips to be about 2″ in size. Place on a baking sheet.
- Drizzle calmly with olive oil and sprinkle with salt. Toss till all strips are calmly coated and unfold evenly over the pan.
- Bake till crisp (about 10 minutes) and permit to chill earlier than serving with the soup.
Ceaselessly Requested Questions
This soup continues to be delicate sufficient for my youngsters to take pleasure in regardless of utilizing a jalapeno, chiles, and enchilada sauce, since we take away the jalapeno seeds and use delicate variations of the doubtless spicy gadgets.
If you wish to make it spicer, toss in just a few of the jalapeno seeds and use scorching inexperienced chiles and scorching enchilada sauce.
Toppings-wise, we love avocado, cotija cheese, bitter cream, cilantro, and lime juice. A splash of scorching sauce doesn’t damage both!
As for sides, we love serving with my well-known cornbread or jalapeno cornbread, although biscuits are all the time a superb possibility, too.
I haven’t tried freezing this soup, however I might be fearful that the cream cheese wouldn’t thaw correctly and will make the tip outcome appear “piecey” and separated (although I believe the style would nonetheless be superb). You possibly can attempt freezing the soup earlier than including the cream cheese and stir it in as soon as thawed.
Should you attempt freezing this recipe, I’d like to know the way it goes for you!
This soup makes the proper chilly climate meal. I hope you give it a do this season!
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Rooster Tortilla Soup Recipe
Servings: 6 servings
Energy: 428kcal
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Directions
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Preheat oven to 415F/215C (that is to cook dinner your tortillas, you need the oven preheating and it could take a while for it to achieve this temperature so preheat it now).
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Place bacon items in a big heavy bottomed pot (I like to make use of my Dutch Oven) and cook dinner over medium warmth till browned, crisp, and cooked by way of. Take away to a paper towel lined plate and put aside.
5 strips (raw) bacon
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Add onion, pepper, and jalapeno to pan and cook dinner till translucent (about 3-5 minutes).
1 cup (115 g) chopped onion, 1 cup (115 g) diced crimson pepper, 1 finely chopped jalapeno
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Add garlic and cook dinner till aromatic (about 30 seconds)
1 Tablespoon minced garlic
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Add hen inventory, tomatoes, beans, enchilada sauce, corn, chilis, chili powder, sugar, cumin, ½ teaspoon kosher salt, paprika, black pepper, and hen. Stir properly and produce to a simmer. Permit to simmer for 20 minutes, stirring sometimes. In the meantime put together your tortillas.
3 ½ cups (830 ml) low sodium hen inventory, 14 oz (396 g) can fireplace roasted diced tomatoes, 14 oz (396 g) can black beans, 10 oz (283 g) delicate enchilada sauce, 1 cup frozen candy corn, 7 oz (200 g) can diced inexperienced chilis, 1 Tablespoon chili powder, 1 teaspoon sugar, ¾ teaspoon cumin, ½ teaspoon kosher salt, ½ teaspoon paprika, ½ teaspoon floor black pepper, 3-4 cups (450 g) shredded or diced cooked hen
TORTILLA STRIPS
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Lower tortillas into strips which are ¼” thick by 2” lengthy. Scatter evenly over parchment paper lined baking sheet, drizzle calmly with olive oil (about 1 Tbsp), sprinkle with kosher salt and use a spatula to evenly coat with olive oil.
10 corn tortillas, Olive oil, Kosher salt
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Switch to 415F (215C) and cook dinner till crisp, about 10 minutes. Permit to chill on baking sheet.
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In the meantime, as soon as soup has completed simmering, add cream cheese and lime juice and stir properly till cream cheese is melted. Return bacon to the pot and stir properly.
4 oz (113 g) cream cheese², 1 Tablespoon recent lime juice
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Serve topped together with your crisp tortilla strips and different toppings, as desired.
Elective toppings: avocado, cotija cheese, cilantro, bitter cream, and many others.
Notes
¹Bacon
Should you don’t care to make use of bacon, you may substitute 2 Tablespoons of butter (and even olive oil, however every substitution will lead to much less taste) as an alternative. Soften over medium/excessive warmth then proceed with recipe as written.
²Cream cheese
Should you don’t like a creamier soup you may pass over the cream cheese.
Storing
Retailer in an hermetic container within the fridge for as much as 4 days.
Diet
Serving: 1serving | Energy: 428kcal | Carbohydrates: 51g | Protein: 22g | Fats: 17g | Saturated Fats: 5g | Polyunsaturated Fats: 2g | Monounsaturated Fats: 5g | Ldl cholesterol: 54mg | Sodium: 1476mg | Potassium: 561mg | Fiber: 12g | Sugar: 13g | Vitamin A: 2850IU | Vitamin C: 88.3mg | Calcium: 130mg | Iron: 4mg
Dietary info relies on third-party calculations and must be thought-about an estimate solely. Precise dietary content material will range primarily based upon manufacturers used, measuring strategies, cooking methodology, portion sizes, and extra.
I initially revealed this recipe in March of 2019. Submit has been up to date to be extra useful, however the recipe stays unchanged.
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