Chicken Tortilla Soup in Just 15 Minutes

I am obsessed with chicken tortilla soup. I love that warm and savory broth-y soup topped off with crunchy bits of deep-fried tortilla strips, cheese, sour cream, and avocado. Tortilla soup is serious comfort food.

Tortilla soup or sopa de tortilla is a Mexican soup made from tomatoes, garlic, onions, and chiles. It’s topped off with fried corn tortilla strips. It’s broth-y, warming, and delicious. It can be made with beef or pork but the best and most traditional version is chicken tortilla soup.

You can easily find all the ingredients for this chicken tortilla soup at the grocery store. Heck, it’s almost a pantry soup, if you have some staples on had. You’ll need: onion, garlic, chicken broth, fire roasted tomatoes, chicken, tortillas strips (or chips), and some toppings.

I love tortilla soup as a meal, but if you want to round it out a bit, maybe add some: mexican rice, chicken tinga tacos, birria tacos or even barbacoa tacos, and of course homemade tortilla chips and guacamole, too.

Ingredients:

• 1 medium onion diced
• 3 cloves garlic minced
• 1 dried ancho chile
• 1 jalapeño chopped
• 4 cups chicken stock no sodium preferred
• 14.5 oz fire roasted tomatoes 1 can
• 1 chicken breast or 4 boneless skinless chicken thighs
• salt and freshly ground pepper

Toppings

• 1 jalapeño sliced
• 1/2 cup fresh cilantro roughly chopped
• 1 avocado cubed
• 1/2 cup cheddar shredded
• 1/2 cup sour cream
• 1 cup tortilla chips crushed
• 2 lime wedges