Shamrocks and Shenanigans: Chipotle Chicken Tortilla Soup

Chicken Tortilla Soup is a family favorite that everyone in the house will eat. I don't have one member that wont eat it which is amazing considering how picky some of my members are. And really it is amazing that my picky kids love this so much considering how packed with vegetables it is, but they love it. My kids love spicy foods. They will pack tabasco sauce on just about everything so I have make sure that this soup have the right amount of spice and flavor. I found that Chipotle peppers give a spicy heat and a smoky flavor. We have been hooked for the last couple years. This soup comes together pretty fast, maybe 45 minutes but you could put it in a crock pot and let it simmer for a couple of hours. I find it is best the next day.

Chipotle Chicken Tortilla Soup

2 chicken breast
2 TB oil
1/2 cup oil
4 tortillas
salt and pepper
2 carrots
1 cup frozen corn
1-2 cloves garlic
1-4 TB chipotle adobo sauce
1 TB cumin
1 can black beans or pinto beans
1 cube frozen cilantro or 2 Tb fresh cilantro
1 box chicken stock
4 cups water

I found this in Trader Joes, It is great for when I don't have any cilantro

isn't this amazing

salt and pepper

once cooked cut up and and add to the soup

Add one Tb oil to your stock pot

chop up your vegetables

Brown the carrots over medium high heat with the garlic. I love the flavor the browned vegetables add to the soup

Add your chicken broth. When available go for a lower sodium broth so you can control the salt

I can not say this enough....always rinse your beans. They are canned in this slimy liquid that is full of sodium

Add four cups of water. I like the way it tastes when you water down the broth, letting the vegetables and the other flavors come through in the broth

Usually I buy the chipotle peppers in adobo sauce but I accidentally grabbed the can of just sauce. This will work just as good

Just spoon it out

Add in a TB of the chipotle sauce at a time, stiring and tasting as you go, my family likes the heat so we can really take the heat and will add a couple of these babies. I recommend you taste as you go

Add the cumin, um somebody forgot to put this on the grocery list. We are dangerously low on cumin!!!

Add the cilantro and chicken

Add the whole can of green chilis with the juice

Add the corn in the last ten minutes. I scored some roasted corn from Trader Joes, it is frozen but will taste so good with tonight's flavors

soup is read, the corn has warmed up, the veggies are tender. It has simmered about 45 minutes on low. The meat is still tender and now tough

Take about four tortillas, today it is flour but corn would be great and cut into strips

Take about a 1/2 cup oil and heat on medium high heat until it is good and hot. I always seem to use this old pan. I have newer pans but this one seems to be my tortilla pan. I need to break that habit.