Woo Hoo, I did it! Revamped my delicious chicken tortilla
soup and transformed it into a wonderful Rotisserie Chicken Queen soup. From
start to finish, it took me 25 minutes!
My old version took about an hour and a half and this new
version is spectacular! It has more ingredients than most of my recipes but it’s still easy.
If you enjoy the flavors or cumin, cilantro and corn, you
should love this.
And it freezes beautifully, so if you are single or travel a
lot, you can easily freeze it. There’s
about six servings in a pot and I ran the ingredients through one of those
calorie calculations, and it has 311 calories a bowl. It was rated B+, which is
awesome, so it’s nutritious as well as delicious.
It has 12 percent of your daily recommended intake of iron,
48 percent vitamin C, and 20 percent vitamin A.
If you made my Mexican Lasagna, you probably have left over
corn tortillas, so you can use them in this. For future reference, corn
tortillas freeze well, too.
You’ll notice, I give directions as if I am there with you
in the kitchen because I know where the pauses are in my recipe and it helps
you move faster. You don’t have to de-bone the chicken before you start the
soup. If you do, you will add a little extra time to the 25 minutes I said it
takes. I try to be as efficient as possible with whatever I make. “Efficient” is a commonly used word in my home and is
usually greeted with a mental eye-roll from my husband. I don’t blame him. I
strive to be more efficient with everything I do.
This is one efficient, yummy venture. I hope you enjoy it.
Chicken Tortilla Soup
1 teaspoon canola oil
1 large yellow onion
1 ½ teaspoons ground cumin
1 teaspoon chili powder
½ teaspoon cumin seed
1 large red bell pepper
*1 garlic clove or dash of dehydrated garlic (see my note)
32-ounces reduced sodium chicken broth (one of those boxes
of broth)
1 can of corn, drained
½ a bunch of cilantro
4 corn tortillas
1 tablespoon cornmeal (if you don’t have any, just add 2
more tortillas)
1 ½ cups chunky salsa (your favorite brand)
Meat from 1 rotisserie chicken
Avocado to garnish (optional)
*If you want to save time and you’re not cooking with
dehydrated garlic, you need to buy some. It’s awesome! I tried it when I
visited the New Orleans School of Cooking and I was skeptical, but instantly
won over. Now I only use fresh garlic if I am making a dressing or something
that must have it. Dehydrated garlic saves me time, effort and I don’t have
stinky hands. You can order it online, but I recently bought some from Big
Lots, of all places. It was the Big Lots in Rolla, but you call your local
store. It was inexpensive, too.
Directions:
First, chop onion and red bell pepper and set aside (use a
food processor, if you have it).
Split a head of cilantro in half and cut the stems off one
half. Then bunch up the leaves and slice those and set aside.
In a large pot, heat the oil over medium heat. When hot, add
onion, cumin, chili powder and cumin seed. Stir occasionally while it cooks for
about 7 minutes. While that cooks, do the next steps but be sure to stir the
onion so it doesn’t burn.
Pile tortillas on top of each other, slice them and then cut
into small squares and set aside.
Tear the meat off your chicken. Discard the skin or save it
for another use. Coarsely chop the chicken and set aside (if you have time; if
not, you will get to that in a second).
When onion is tender, add all the ingredients from the bell pepper
through the salsa. You do not want to add the chicken yet because it’s already
cooked. Bring soup to a soft boil and cook 10 minutes.
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| This is what it looks like before it boils |
Finish chopping your chicken, if you haven’t already.
When
soup has cooked 10 minutes, drop chicken in and turn off the heat. The soup is
piping hot and will quickly heat the meat. See how creamy the soup looks now? Transformed in 10 minutes.
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Stir the soup and serve.
Optional: Serve with a slice of avocado, crumbled up tortilla chips, cheese or plain. The calories calculated were plain.
Nutritional Analysis
Good points
High in niacin
High in selenium
High in vitamin B6
High in vitamin C
Bad points
High in sodium
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| ENJOY! |
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