Monday, April 19, 2010

Slow Cooker Chicken Tortilla Soup

Ingredients
1 pound shredded, cooked chicken
1 (15 ounce) can whole peeled tomatoes, mashed
1 (10 ounce) can enchilada sauce
1 medium onion, chopped
1 (4 ounce) can chopped green chile peppers
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 cups water
1 (14.5 ounce) can chicken broth
1 teaspoon cumin
1 teaspoon chili powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1 bay leaf
1 (10 ounce) package frozen corn
1 tablespoon chopped cilantro
7 corn tortillas
vegetable oil

Directions
1.Place chicken, tomatoes, enchilada sauce, onion, green chiles, and garlic into a slow cooker. Pour in water and chicken broth, and season with cumin, chili powder, salt, pepper, and bay leaf. Stir in corn and cilantro. Cover, and cook on Low setting for 6 to 8 hours or on High setting for 3 to 4 hours.
2.Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
3.Lightly brush both sides of tortillas with oil. Cut tortillas into strips, then spread on a baking sheet.
4.Bake in preheated oven until crisp, about 10 to 15 minutes. To serve, sprinkle tortilla strips over soup.

A few notes:
-I used Costco rotissere chicken for most of the batches. For one of the batches I put in a whole piece of raw chicken and let it cook in the broth, then shredded it.
-I put in 2 corn tortillas and let it cook and dissolve in the broth hoping for a more tortilla-ish flavor. Next time I would add more tortillas.

I got this recipe from allrecipes.com

2 comments:

  1. We enjoyed this a couple days ago with the cold weather. Yummy soup!

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  2. So so good. We had it for dinner last week when it was cold too. I couldn't wait to have leftovers for lunch the next day!

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