Chicken Tortilla Soup is a delicious and filling meal that your whole family with love! This tortilla soup with black beans is easy to make, using canned goods from your pantry you can create a wonderful meal.

Making this chicken tortilla soup crock pot is a great way to create a hearty meal with vegetables and protein too! This recipe for chicken tortilla soup has health benefits, like loads of fiber, and it is packed with delicious flavors too!

Butter With a Side of Bread: Chicken Tortilla Soup

Easy Chicken Tortilla Soup

What I love about this recipe is that you can make this soup dish with ingredients from your food storage area. We all have that overstock of canned goods in our pantry, it is a collection of “just in case” items and remnants of items that were on sale. So, when you find yourself struggling to come up with a dinner plan look no further than this simple tortilla soup recipe. It is as easy as draining a few cans of ingredients, combining and cooking it to create a satisfying meal. This soup is an inexpensive but delightful meal that warms you up on a cool fall or winter night. You can also switch up ingredients or leave some out to accommodate picky eaters or make it a vegetarian meal by leaving out the chicken. When topped with sliced avocado or shredded cheese, this soup is just so incredible!

Chicken Tortilla Soup Ingredients

Dried onion: For great flavor, add in 3-4 tablespoons of chopped dried onion. If you want to, you can use half of a medium onion instead.

Cream of chicken: You will need (3) 14.5-ounce cream of chicken soup for a great creamy texture for this soup.

Chicken broth: Adding (3) 14.5 ounce chicken broth gives this soup a great consistency.

Salsa: Use 1 cup of salsa for a tangy taste in this dish.

Chili powder: Using 1 teaspoons of chili powder will give this amazing soup a wonderful punch of flavor.

Chicken: Add in (2) cans of shredded chicken to make this a more robust and full meal. You can choose to leave this ingredient out if you would like to make this a meatless meal. You could also use 2-3 cooked shredded chicken breasts or a rotisserie chicken.

Black beans: For great protein in this soup, use (1) 14.5-ounce can of black beans, rinsed and drained.

Corn: You will need (1) 14.5-ounce can of sweet corn for a nice buttery addition to this soup.

How to make Chicken Tortilla Soup

Crockpot method

In a large saucepan, sauté the dried (or fresh) onion in a 1/4 cup of the chicken broth for about 3-4 minutes on medium heat.

Then, add in the rest of the chicken broth and all of the cream of chicken soup. Mix well and heat to the point of boiling.

At this point, transfer the mixture into a crockpot and add in the salsa, chili powder, shredded chicken, black beans and corn.

Proceed to cook on low heat for about 3-4 hours.

Stovetop method

If you would like to continue to cook the soup on the stove top, just add in the remaining ingredients, the salsa, chili powder, shredded chicken, black beans and corn.

Simmer on low heat for 20-30 minutes, make sure all the ingredients are well heated.

Serve

When you are ready to serve, top each bowl of soup with tasty additional toppings like, shredded cheese, sour cream, tortilla strips, avocado, tomatoes and/or anything else that sounds good!

Enjoy!

Chicken Tortilla Soup

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Course: dinner, lunch, Soup

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Chicken Tortilla Soup

Prep Time: 5

Cook Time: 20

crock pot method: 3

Total Time: 25

Servings:

Calories: 35kcal

Author: Jessica & Nellie

Ingredients

3-4 tbsp Dried onion If you want to, you can use half of a medium onion instead.
3 14.5-ounce cans cream of chicken soup
3 14.5 ounce cans chicken broth
1 cup Salsa
1 tsp Chili powder
2 2 cans of shredded chicken You could also use 2-3 cooked shredded chicken breasts or a rotisserie chicken.
1 14.5-ounce can of black beans rinsed and drained.
1 14.5-ounce can of sweet corn drained.