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Easy Tortilla Soup is a simple and satisfying Mexican soup loaded with chicken and tortillas. Ready in 30 minutes Includes gluten free, corn free and vegetarian alternatives.
This Chicken and Tomato Tortilla Soup is an easy meal to warm you up on a cold day. Ready in 30 minutes and you probably have the ingredients in your kitchen already.
This Tortilla Soup recipe serves 4 as a side soup, but you can easily double it up to make it a complete meal for 4.
It is simple to adapt for special diets:
- vegetarian: vegetable broth and black beans for the chicken broth and chicken
- corn allergies or don’t have corn tortillas on hand: flour tortillas are just as good
- gluten free: just make sure your stock and tortillas are gluten free and the recipe should be good as is.
Tortilla Soup
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 tablespoon olive or vegetable oil
- 3/4 cups yellow onion (diced)
- 1-2 clove garlic (minced – about 1 tablespoon)
- 1/2 pound boneless skinless chicken breast (cut in 1/2 inch cubes)
- 1 can 14.5 ounce diced tomatoes
- 1 can 14 ounce chicken stock
- 1 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
- 4-6 Small corn tortillas (or 2 soft taco size flour tortillas)
- oil for frying
OPTIONAL
- fresh cilantro (for garnish)
- Monterey Jack cheese (shredded (for garnish))
Instructions
- Heat olive oil in large pot or cast iron skillet. Add onion and sauté until translucent. Add garlic and sauté slightly without browning.
- Add chicken, tomatoes, stock, cumin and oregano. Bring to a boil and then reduced to simmer. Continue cooking until chicken is done.
- While soup is cooking, cut tortillas into ½-inch strips. Heat ½ inch oil in a skillet until a test tortilla strip sizzles when dropped into oil. Fry tortilla strips one layer at a time. Watch carefully so not to burn. Remove with tongs and drain on paper towels. Repeat until all are fried.
- To serve: place fried tortillas in bottom of serving bowls. Pour in soup and garnish with grated cheese and a few sprigs of cilantro.
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Until next time, happy eating.
~Audrey
I’ve never made tortilla soup. I do like it and every time I had it..yummy
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G’day and thanks for sharing at our #SayGdayParty Looks like a warm and welcoming soup! Pinned!
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This sounds delicious! I will for sure try it. Stopping by from the Pinterest Party.
I’m like you, I love easy dishes. Your soup sounds perfectly simple and delish. Thanks for sharing at #theWeekendSocial. Hope to see you again Thursday 9:00 PM EST. Pinned as always!
This looks so yummy! I am going to have to give this a try.
My husband would love this! What a great recipe idea. Thanks for sharing
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oh sounds good, warm and delish! I will be very interested in trying this easy tortilla soup and making some tortilla strips!
Thanks for sharing your soup recipe on Merry Monday. The weather in So.Cali is finally starting to cool off and I can’t wait to start making soup again. Pinned.