Chicken Tortilla Soup Recipe

Ingredients

Instructions

1. 1Tortilla Strips:
2. 2Prepare Chips
3. 3Preheat a pan with 1/4 cup oil over medium-high heat. Cut tortillas into thin strips and fry them in batches in the hot oil until crisp. Remove from the pan and allow them to drain on a paper towel. Repeat with remaining tortilla strips, adding more oil as needed then set aside.
4. 4Chicken Tortilla Soup:
5. 5Cook Veggies
6. 6Preheat a pot with oil over medium-high heat. Add chopped onion, garlic and chopped jalapeño and sauté until veggies soften.
7. 7Cook Soup
8. 8Add whole chicken breasts, corn, beans, chilli powder, cumin, crushed tomatoes, salt, ¼ cup of cilantro and chicken broth. Bring to a boil and let simmer for at least 25 minutes.
9. 9Shred Chicken
10. 10Remove chicken from the pot and shred it using 2 forks. Add shredded chicken back to the soup and simmer another 5 minutes then add lime juice.
11. 11Serve the soup with some tortilla strips, pieces of avocado, fresh cilantro and lime wedges.