How to Prepare Yummy Chicken Tortilla Soup

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Chicken Tortilla Soup. This soup is quick to make, flavorful, and filling! Serve with warm corn bread or tortillas. Garnish with chopped fresh avocado, Monterey Jack cheese, crushed tortilla chips, or green onion!

Chicken Tortilla Soup Ladle the soup into a bowl, then add avocado, red onion, sour cream, cilantro and extra tortilla strips to the top. The more toppings on tortilla soup, the merrier. Editor's Note Wear disposable gloves when cutting hot peppers; the oils can burn skin. You can have Chicken Tortilla Soup using 22 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Chicken Tortilla Soup

  1. You need 4 of Chicken Leg Quarters.
  2. You need 12 cup of Water (just to fill a medium-large pot).
  3. It's 1 of Large Onion.
  4. Prepare 10 of Garlic Cloves (ruffly choped).
  5. Prepare of Cabbage (cut into strips) for toping.
  6. It's 1 3/4 of Avocado (cut into half slices) for topping.
  7. You need 1 bunch of Green Onion (choped or topping).
  8. It's 1 of Shreded Monetary Jack Cheese.
  9. Prepare 12 of Tortillas cut into strips (fried or backed into chips) or store bought tortilla strips.
  10. It's 1 cup of Sour Cream (avocado sour cream sauce).
  11. Prepare 1 can of El Pato Enchilada Sauce.
  12. It's 1 can of El Pato Tomato Hot Sauce.
  13. It's 2 can of Diced Tomatoes With Green Chillies.
  14. Prepare 1 cup of Lemon Juice.
  15. It's 1 tbsp of Oregano Powder.
  16. You need 1 tbsp of Chili Powder.
  17. It's 1 1/2 tbsp of Garlic Powder.
  18. Prepare of Salt And Peper.
  19. It's 1/4 of Avocado mashed (avocado sour cream sauce).
  20. Prepare 1 tbsp of Lemon Juice (avocado sour cream sauce).
  21. Prepare 1/2 tsp of Garlic Powder (avocado sour cream sauce).
  22. It's 1/4 of Onion (finely choped).

Mix cumin, chili pepper, garlic powder, and salt. I never even thought to make it at home because, frankly, I thought it was fussy. The same is true of chicken tortilla soup. Travel up and down the west coast of North America, and you'll find hundreds of variations of chicken tortilla soup recipe.

Chicken Tortilla Soup step by step

  1. Fill large pot with water and boil leg quarters untill just cooked..
  2. Remove leg quarters but leave water and remove from heat. Let legs cool..
  3. While legs cool prep all ingredients that need cutting or mashing..
  4. Add garlic cloves, 3/4 of onion, oregano powder, chilli powder, garlic powder, lemon juice, all cans and salt and peper to water..
  5. Take all chicken off bones and dice.
  6. Add chicken back into soup. Let cook for about 20-30 minutes..
  7. Make sour avocado sour cream sauce. Mix all ingredients well..
  8. Put soup in bowl top with cheese, onions, cabbage, avocado sour cream sauce, sliced avocados,tortillas strips and green onion as garnish for color..
  9. Eat and ENJOY :).

Ladle the homemade chicken tortilla soup into bowls and top with homemade tortilla strips (I've given the recipe in the recipe card below), cubed avocado, shredded cheese, and/or sour cream. How to Store Chicken Tortilla Soup. Chicken Tortilla Soup is one of my favorite comfort foods! Chicken breasts, corn, beans, and other delicious ingredients are simmered in a tomato base. Top this delicious soup with crispy homemade tortilla strips, avocado, lime, and cilantro for the perfect Mexican-inspired soup!