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Chicken Tortilla Soup
Our thick and creamy Chicken Tortilla Soup is loaded with zesty flavor!
Ingredients
2 quarts chicken stock (see recipe here) or canned chicken stock
Meat from one chicken (see recipe here) or (here) or use a rotisserie chicken from the supermarket
16 white or yellow corn tortillas (4 will be cooked and used as a topping and 12 will be cooked and used to thicken the soup)
1 tablespoon olive oil
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
2 cups onion, diced
2-3 tablespoons jalapeno, diced (depending on how hot you like it)
2 tablespoons fresh garlic, chopped
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cumin
1 teaspoon ground coriander
1/2 teaspoon white pepper
2 teaspoons gumbo filé powder (optional but recommended)
1 14.75-ounce can creamed corn
1 7-ounce can diced mild green chilies
2-4 tablespoons yellow corn meal (depending on how thick you like it) *see note
2 14.5-ounce cans fire-roasted diced tomatoes (drained)
Few shakes Worcestershire sauce
Kosher salt, as needed to taste
Topping options
Lime wedges
Jack cheese
Cilantro
Tortilla strips, reserved from earlier step
Taco sauce (see our recipe here)
Slices of fresh avocado
Sliced scallions
Sour cream
Instructions
- Prepare a homemade chicken stock (see recipe here) or used canned or carton. Set stock aside.
- Use shredded chicken from your homemade chicken stock, or roast your own chicken, or buy a large rotisserie chicken and remove meat from the bones and shred. Set aside.
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees F and line a sheet tray with parchment paper.
- Lay out 16 corn tortillas on your cutting board and slice into thin strips. Spread out on the sheet pan and coat with a drizzle of olive oil just too moisten.
- Bake for 20 minutes, tossing every five minutes. If getting too brown, remove before the 20 minutes is up. Separate one quarter of the cooked tortillas as a garnish for serving. Set the remainder aside for later in this recipe.
- In a 5-6 quart heavy bottomed soup pot or Dutch oven, heat the vegetable oil over medium heat. Once hot, add the onions, jalapeno, garlic, cumin, coriander, white pepper and gumbo filé powder if using.
- Stir and saute for five minutes.
- Add the stock, creamed corn, diced green chilies, the cooked tortilla strips from earlier and the corn meal (see note below on corn meal) and bring to a boil, then lower to a simmer and cook five minutes.
- While soup is simmering, drain the canned tomatoes and discard the liquid.
- After five minutes, use an immersion blender or table top blender and puree the soup until smooth. Check for thickness. If you want it thicker, add more cornmeal. If too thick, dilute with more stock or water. When adding corn meal, it needs five minutes of cooking to bloom and thicken the soup so don’t add too much at once.
- Add the drained tomatoes and Worcestershire sauce then taste. Only add salt now if you think it needs it. It may or may not depending on how salty your chicken stock was.
- Shred the chicken and add to the soup.
- Serve immediately with any or all of the listed toppings including the cooked tortilla strips reserved from earlier.
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Notes
If you use two tablespoons of corn meal, the finished soup will be creamy in consistency and will easily drip from a spoon. Four tablespoons will make the finished soup thick, almost porridge like. You could start with two and if it seems too thin, gradually add more. Corn meal needs about 5 minutes to dissolve, bloom and thicken as the soup cooks so wait a bit before adding more.
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