Chicken Tortilla Soup Recipe | Self Proclaimed Foodie (2024)

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Chicken Tortilla Soup is one of most delicious one pot meals you’ll serve for family dinner and tastes even better with homemade broth.

This healthy and easy recipe is the best authentic tortilla soup recipe you’ll find!

Chicken Tortilla Soup is so freakin’ good. In fact, I was extra proud of this recipe because it was one of those flavorful and hearty meals I created on the fly with the ingredients I had to use up before they spoiled in my refrigerator.

How to make this Chicken Tortilla Soup:

1. First step is to sauté onions and garlic in a pot on the stove. Chicken broth, tomatoes, corn and black beans are added to this mixture and heated through.
2. Using a blender, process about half of the soup. Alternatively, you can use an immersion blender and partially blend the soup right in the pot.
3. Add the shredded cooked chicken, cumin, salt and cilantro. Stir well and heat through.
4. Serve with all the toppings! I love grated cheese, jalapeno, sour cream, and crushed tortilla strips.

Cooking tips for success:

• The secret to the most delicious soup, in my opinion, is to blend up half of the chunky ingredients. This is how you make it creamy. Once blended, you add them back into your soup. This method will make it so that you don’t just have a thin broth with lots of chunks. Instead, you will have a cohesive and flavorful chicken soup with the right amount of chunks.
• Another recommendation is to use really good meat as well as really good broth. You can definitely make this tortilla soup with pre-cooked chicken that you bought along with boxed broth. But, why not make your own and get a few extra meals out of the process while saving some money while you’re at it? I made a whole chicken in my crockpot. Then, I shredded all of the chicken. Some of the meat was used for this soup. The rest of the meat was used forchipotle chicken quesadillas, as well as for salads, and then I through the bones and skins right back in the crockpot along with all the flavors of the one spoon dry rub that I used, some water, carrots, celery and a bay leaf to make my own overnight crockpot chicken broth.
• You can definitely substitute in canned tomatoes or other sized fresh ones. I just happened to have a lot of cherry tomatoes so I dumped them in the soup. Once you blend them up, their skins and their juicy insides just add to the richness of the broth. Perfection.

If you love this soup, you should definitely try my taco soup. It is very similar in flavor, but is made with ground beef instead of chicken.