Slow Cooker Chicken Tortilla Soup
Apr 19, 2025 06:32 AM
Chicken tortilla soup is a Mexican tomato-based soup dish made with shredded chicken and various spices such as cumin, chili powder and oregano, topped with tortilla strips for an added crunch.
Restaurant-quality with so much flavor! No sautéing, no babysitting here with 5 min prep. Set and forget!
Reasons to make Slow Cooker Chicken Tortilla Soup
Dump-and-go slow cooker dinner. This is just one of those super easy slow cooker soup recipes that makes itself. With hands-free cooking, there is simply no sautéing, no nothing here. Throw everything into the crockpot to cook low and slow, letting all the flavors develop, meld and deepen to the most flavorful chicken tortilla soup.
Large batch cooking. With its large serving size, this is a great soup recipe for big family get togethers or for freezing leftovers for up to 2 months.
Versatile recipe. Chicken tortilla soup is such a wonderfully versatile recipe for the entire family to enjoy, adding in different toppings to taste, swapping out the chicken to make it vegetarian, or making it creamier and spicier.
Ingredients:
- 2 ½ pounds bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs
- ½ large sweet onion, diced
- 1 red bell pepper, diced
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 4 cups chicken stock
- 2 cups tomato puree
- 1 (15-ounce) can black beans, rinsed and drained
- 1 (10-ounce) can diced tomatoes and green chilies
- 1 cup frozen yellow corn
- 1 (4-ounce) can diced green chiles
- 1 chipotle pepper in adobo sauce, minced
- 2 teaspoons chili powder
- 2 teaspoons dried oregano
- 1 ½ teaspoons ground cumin
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lime juice
- ⅓ cup chopped fresh cilantro leaves
For Serving
- Tortilla strips
- Sliced avocado
- Sour cream
- Cilantro
Prep Time:
20 minutes
Cook Time:
480 minutes
Total Time:
500 minutes
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