Chipotle Chicken Tortilla Soup Recipes

CHIPOTLE CHICKEN TORTILLA SOUP

Steps:

• Stack the tortillas about 4 tortillas per stack and slice them into strips of 1/4-inch wide.
• Heat the oil in a Dutch oven or large soup pot set over medium-high heat. Working in batches, fry the tortilla strips in the oil until lightly browned and crisp. Transfer each batch of the tortilla strips to a paper-towel lined plate to drain.
• Add the chopped onions to a large pot over medium heat, cook 2 minutes, stirring frequently. Add the garlic and cook for 30 seconds.
• Pour in the broth and add the tomatoes, salt and mashed chipotle peppers, stir to blend; then bring to a boil, reduce the heat and simmer for 5-minutes.
• Remove 2-cups of the mixture and place in a blender or food processor with 1/3 of the fried tortilla strips. Process until smooth, then stir back into the soup mixture.
• Add the corn, black beans and the seasonings. Stir in the shredded chicken and continue simmering on low for 15 minutes, stirring frequently until the chicken is heated through.
• Ladle the soup into bowls, garnish with tortilla strips, cilantro leaves, avocado chunks, Cotija cheese and lime wedges.

CHICKEN TORTILLA SOUP WITH CHIPOTLE AND FIRE ROASTED TOMATO

Steps:

• Bring broth to a simmer and add chicken tenders, poach 6 to 7 minutes with a bay leaf.
• While chicken poaches, heat extra-virgin olive oil in a medium soup pot or deep skillet over medium-high heat. Add bacon and cook until crisp then remove with slotted spoon. Drain off excess fat, leaving 2 to 3 tablespoons in the pan. Add onions and garlic to the skillet and cook 5 minutes then stir in chipotles and tomatoes.
• Remove chicken from stock, dice and then add to soup. Pass stock through a strainer then add to the soup.
• Place a pile of crushed tortilla chips in the bottom of each soup bowl. Cover liberally with smoked cheese then ladle the hot soup down over the top. Serve with lime, raw onions and cilantro at table to finish the soup.

CHICKEN TORTILLA SOUP WITH CHIPOTLE PEPPERS

Steps:

• Blend until smooth: Can tomatoes with juice, onion, garlic, cilantro, and sugar. Put into a pot along with broth, chicken, and chipotle peppers, and it's juice. Bring to a boil. Cover and simmer for 20 - 25 minutes. In a bowl, put tortilla chips, cheese, avocado, and some sour cream. Top with soup and serve.

TORTILLA-CHIPOTLE SOUP

Steps:

• Heat the vegetable oil in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Add the red onion and garlic and cook, stirring occasionally, until the onion is soft, about 4 minutes. Add the chipotles, tomatoes and chicken broth and bring to a simmer over medium-high heat. Add the crushed chips and tequila; reduce the heat and simmer 10 minutes.
• Transfer the soup to a blender and puree until smooth. Season with salt. Pour into small bowls (or shot glasses); top each with sour cream, cilantro and a whole chip.

CHIPOTLE CHICKEN SOUP

Steps:

• Heat the olive oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Stir in the chicken cubes, and cook until the chicken is no longer pink in the center, about 5 minutes. Stir in the onion and cook for 4 minutes. Add the garlic, and cook for 1 minute more. Stir in the chicken bouillon, adobo sauce, sugar, tomatoes, corn, black beans and water. Pour in additional water if desired to reach your desired consistency. Bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and simmer 15 minutes. Stir in the cilantro before serving.

CHIPOTLE CHICKEN TORTILLA SOUP

Steps:

• Make stock:
• Bring all stock ingredients to a boil with 2 teaspoons salt and 1/2 teaspoon pepper in an 8-to 10-quart heavy pot, then skim foam.
• Reduce heat and gently simmer, uncovered, skimming foam occasionally, 2 3/4 hours.
• Transfer chicken to a cutting board, then pour stock through a fine-mesh sieve into a large bowl and discard solids. Reserve
• 1 cup stock and return remainder to cleaned pot.
• Finish soup:
• Toast spices in a dry small skillet (not nonstick) over medium-low heat, shaking skillet occasionally, until fragrant and a shade darker, about 2 minutes.
• Transfer spices to a blender along with onion, garlic, chipotles with adobo sauce, 2 1/2 teaspoons salt, and reserved stock.
• Blend until mixture is smooth and spices are ground, about 2 minutes (use caution when blending hot liquids).
• Add purée to stock in pot along with rice and sweet potatoes and bring to a simmer over medium heat. Simmer, covered, until sweet potatoes and rice are tender, about 45 minutes.
• While soup simmers, discard skin and bones from chicken and cut or shred meat into bite-size pieces.
• Meanwhile, preheat oven to 375°F with racks in upper and lower thirds. Stack tortillas and cut into 1/4-inch-thick strips, then toss with oil. Spread strips in 1 layer on 2 large baking sheets and season with salt.
• Bake, stirring frequently and switching position of sheets halfway through baking, until deep golden and crisp, 20 to 25 minutes.
• When rice and sweet potatoes are tender, add chicken and beans to soup and simmer, uncovered, until just heated through, about 5 minutes.
• Meanwhile, quarter avocados lengthwise and cut into 1/2-inch cubes.
• Season soup with salt and pepper, then serve with lime wedges, chopped cilantro, avocados, and tortilla strips.

CHIPOTLE MEXICAN GRILL CHICKEN TORTILLA SOUP

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a large stockpot or saucepan over medium heat. Add corn and onion; cook until lightly caramelized. Add chicken broth and chipotle chile; let simmer 20 minutes over low heat. Add the tomatoes, avocado, lime juice, 1/4 cup cilantro. Season with salt and pepper. Remove and discard the chipotle chile.
• Place one-sixth of the tortilla strips in the center of six soup bowls; ladle soup around the crisps. Garnish with remaining cilantro and sour cream. Serve with a wedge of lime.
• This is the exact recipe -- I prefer to put avacado in just before serving -- so it is not warmed.

CHIPOTLE PEPPER AND CHICKEN SOUP

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Cook and stir onion and garlic in hot oil until softened, 5 to 7 minutes.
• Pour chicken broth into saucepan; add chicken. Place a lid on the saucepan and cook until the chicken pieces are no longer pink in the center, about 10 minutes.
• Put chopped chipotle peppers in a bowl with about half the reserved adobo sauce; stir. Mix tomatoes and cilantro together in a separate bowl.
• Stir chipotle mixture into the broth mixture a spoonful at a time, stirring and tasting between each addition, until the level of spiciness is to your liking. Remove saucepan from heat and stir tomatoes with cilantro into the soup.

HEARTY CHIPOTLE CHICKEN SOUP

Steps:

• In a Dutch oven, saute onion in oil until tender. Add garlic; cook 1 minute longer. Add the broth, beans, tomatoes, corn, chipotle peppers, adobo sauce, cumin and pepper. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 20 minutes., Stir in chicken; heat through. Garnish with sour cream; sprinkle with cilantro.