Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, chicken tortilla soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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Chicken tortilla soup is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Chicken tortilla soup is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have chicken tortilla soup using 14 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken tortilla soup:

1. Take 1 small package of chicken thighs
2. Take Half package of 16 oz rice (long grain) or rice of choice
3. Make ready 1 can original rotel
4. Prepare 1 package corn tortillas (cut into strips)
5. Prepare 1 small white onion (dice)
6. Get oil
7. Get Lawrys seasoning salt (for tortilla strips)
8. Prepare lemon juice (for tortilla strips)
9. Get 2 Tbsps cumin
10. Get 1 tbsps garlic powder
11. Get salt and pepper to your liking
12. Make ready 2 Tbsps butter
13. Make ready toppings optional: avocado slices and/or shredded cheese
14. Make ready 2 cans small tomato sauce

Chicken tortilla soup, with its spicy tomato broth, crunchy tortilla chips, and gooey cheese, has long been one of my favorite dishes to order at Mexican restaurants. I never even thought to make it at. Here is a delicious way to make chicken tortilla soup. You can garnish with many ingredients to suit your needs and make this a meal.

Steps to make Chicken tortilla soup:

1. In a big pot add butter and diced onion letting them turn translucent. Add rice and let it brow. Once you see the rice turn light brown add 3 quarts of water, cumin, garlic, rotel, tomato sauce, salt and pepper (always taste and add more seasoning as needed)
2. While the rice is cooking. In another pot add chicken thighs salt and pepper. Do not throw chicken broth away. Once chicken is cooked cut into small pieces and add both chicken and its broth into big pot. Cooking for another 10 min
3. Cut tortillas into strips then fry in a medium size pan. Once fried put in a bowel with a paper towel. Sprinkle lawrys seasoning and lemon juice on the strips.
4. It's all done. Serve in bowels and top with tortilla strips. You can also top soup with shredded cheese or avocados.
5. Remember you can always use brown rice and chicken breast. I just like chicken thighs better. I have also added black beans before.

We load ours up with more protein by adding black beans Nope—rotisserie chicken also works, and will cut down on the amount of time the soup needs to. This tortilla soup recipe is filled with chicken, corn, beans, spices and salsa. It's really easy to make when you're looking for something quick. I tend to always have the ingredients on hand in my pantry. It's made with crispy fried strips of corn tortillas in a tomato-based Mexican soup with chicken stock, chiles, avocado, Jack cheese, cilantro and lime.

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