Try this quick and Easy Slow Cooker Chicken Tortilla Soup for a fast, healthy dinner that’s packed with veggies and protein.
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You know those creepy little memes with the caption titled “my friends at the end of summer vs. me at the end of summer” and there’s like those grief-stricken faces shifting around and then it flashes to some ridiculous human jumping around a pumpkin? I’m the human jumping around the pumpkin. I cannot help myself and I won’t apologize for being so basic and being excited about fall aka SOUP SEASON.
I’ve been testing this Easy Slow Cooker Chicken Tortilla Soup since like…well, July and I am PUMPED that it’s going live. I think I missed the bus with tortilla soup – everyone has been crazy about it for years and I just started making it. I guess I just didn’t realize how easy it was? Oh well, making up for it now!
Speaking of easy, I actually ordered all of the pantry ingredients, aka the broth, tomatoes, corn, beans and most importantly the chips from Kroger.com! Yes…Kroger now ships right to your front door. Here’s why I’m so excited: I don’t have a Kroger around me. Kroger was my favorite grocery store when I lived in the South. They’re affordable but they have really great name brand products. When they emailed to see if I wanted to test out their new Kroger grocery shipping service I was all like “hooohumm, I don’t have a Kroger, womop womp womp”. BUT – it didn’t matter! They shipped right to me! And the best part – orders over $35 get free 2-day shipping. You have to try it!
So, check this out – right to my front doorstep! I basically always have peppers on hand and spare chicken in the freezer, so I didn’t even have to go to the store to make this one. You’re gonna love it!
To make it I just dump everything in the slow cooker:
Cook for 4 hours on high (you could do 8 on low, too) & shred the chicken. Then I add the tortillas to a bowl when I want to eat:
And serve with whatever I’m feeling!
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Easy Slow Cooker Chicken Tortilla Soup
Try this quick and Easy Slow Cooker Chicken Tortilla Soup for a fast, healthy dinner that’s packed with veggies and protein.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 4 hours
- Total Time: 4 hours 10 minutes
- Yield: 8 1x
Ingredients
- 1 lb. chicken thighs
- 2 tsp. chili powder
- 1+1/2 tsp. sea salt (more to taste, if desired)
- 1 tsp. cumin
- 1/2 tsp. black pepper
- 1 large red onion, diced
- 2 bell peppers, diced (I used green)
- 2 jalapenos, diced (seeds removed if you don’t love spice)
- 2 – 15 oz. cans diced, fire roasted tomatoes, drained
- 1 – 15 oz. can sweet corn, drained
- 1 – 15 oz. can black beans, drained
- 32 oz. unsalted chicken broth
- about 4 cups crushed tortilla chips, for serving
- optional toppings – Greek yogurt/sour cream, cilantro, cheese
Instructions
- Add the chicken thighs to the bottom of your slow cooker.
- Top with the chili powder, sea salt, cumin, and black pepper.
- Dice the onion and pepper and add to the slow cooker.
- Then, add the tomatoes, corn, black beans and broth.
- Cook for 4 hours on high (or 8 hours on low) and then remove the chicken and shred with two forks. This will be easy because the chicken gets so tender.
- Taste the broth to see if it needs more salt, stir in the chicken and remove from the heat.
- To serve, in each bowl put about 1/2 cup of crushed tortilla chips and spoon the soup over top. Finish with Greek yogurt or sour cream, cilantro, scallions, avocado – or whatever you want!
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cup - with chips
- Calories: 379
- Sugar: 14 g
- Sodium: 553 mg
- Fat: 12 g
- Saturated Fat: 2 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 2 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 56 g
- Fiber: 9 g
- Protein: 21 g
- Cholesterol: 53 mg
Do you have instant pot directions?
Hi Lauren! I don’t have an Instant pot but I’m working on getting one 🙂
Would I be able to do it in the slow cooker if the chicken is frozen??? I was going to make something else for dinner tonight until I got the email for this recipe this morning so my chicken is not thawed!
You should be able to! It will take a bit longer, but the chicken will cook. You may want to remove 1/4 cup of the chicken stock to account for a bit of water that will give off in the cooking process. Let me know how it goes, I can’t wait to hear!
What is the nutrition facts without the chips?
I have never made this recipe without the chips, so not sure of the exact nutrition information.