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Elimere's Tortilla Soup

Soph

While texting with my streaming friend Elimere, she suggested I make Tortilla soup this week. I flipping love tortilla soup so it was easy to convince me to try. This would also be my first soup! This recipe is Elimere’s Tortilla Soup recipe. I enlisted my sous chef and friend Liz (from Lizwritesstuff.com) to assist as she has some soup experience and also would help me eat this when I inevitably made too much.

Ingredients:

  • 2 chicken breasts

  • 1 can of black beans

  • 1 can of corn (not sweet!)

  • 1 can Rotel (this is the company, it’s a tomato and chili mix)

  • 2 cups chicken stock (no broth!)

  • Chili powder to taste

  • Cumin to taste

  • Cayenne to taste (I added this, hers didn’t list it)

  • Salt to taste

  • Pepper to taste

  • Tortilla strips (or chips!)

  • Mexican thick cut cheese mix (I added this, hers doesn’t use it)

Prep

  1. Cook the chicken however you’d like as long as it’s soft enough to shred. You can bake it, grill it, or sear it. I added it to a skillet with water. Liz added salt, pepper and spices and we covered the pan and cooked, while flipping it periodically until it was no longer pink

  2. Shred the chicken. You can do this using two forks, a fork in Knife like Liz did, (mad woman) or your fingers like a caveman because it feels fun and more people should try this.

  3. In a (hopefully) big enough pot, add corn, beans, rotel, spices, chicken stock, and shredded chicken. Heat on medium heat for about 20-30 minutes and make sure you stir occasionally. If you’re like me, every time you stir, sneak some more spices in and hope it’ll be OK because Liz doesn’t know you’re doing it.

  4. Wish you had a ladle and pour some into a bowl. Add the cheese on top and the strips to plate it.

Afterthoughts

This was a delicious and amazing soup. We lucked out and the spice mix was not too strong but still gave us a burst of flavor. Adding spices and things to the chicken (which I wouldn’t have thought to do, three cheers for sous chefs) was a masterful touch that brought more flavor to those bites even outside the soup. This is a thinner version of the soup as it uses only the stock in the base and you can feel it as you eat. It still leaves you full but not heavy. This was a great fast treat to be able to feed a family and can keep easily for meal prep if you fancy.