I love soup. Soups have always been, hands down, my favorite thing to cook. When I owned my cafe, my favorite thing each day was coming up with new soup recipes. With a winter that won’t stop, I thought I’d share my newest recipe. I’m sure someone can think of a better name, but I’ll just call it chicken tortilla and rice soup. It’s full of vegetables, fiber and protein, with no oil, added fat, wheat or dairy. Just the kind of thing to help the Spring Break shorts fit well! Enjoy!

Chicken Tortilla & Rice Soup

Chicken Tortilla and Rice Soup

Liza Graves

This chicken tortilla and rice soup is full of vegetables, fiber and protein, with no oil, added fat, wheat or dairy

5 from 1 vote

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Ingredients

8 cups chicken stock
1 yellow onion diced
2 small zucchini- diced
A handful of shredded carrots- dice them up
2/3 cup corn- frozen or fresh
1 16 oz. container of Jack's garden fresh gourmet salsa
1/2 cup- 2/3 cup dried short grain brown rice
Chipotle peppers in adobe sauce
1 4 oz. can diced green chiles
1 15 oz can black beans or white kidney beans
2 tablespoons Ancho chili powder
2 tablespoons crushed garlic
1 tsp onion powder
1.5 tsp cumin
30 soft corn tortillas fold groups of ten in half and then slice thinly into strips
Meat from one rotisserie chicken or cook a 3-3.5 pound chicken

Instructions

Place rice, diced vegetables, salsa, corn and stock all in a large stock pot and set to boil. Upon boiling, reduce heat to a low boil.
Cook for about 40 minutes.
Add spices, green chiles and 3 whole chipotle peppers in adobe sauce. Cook for 5 more minutes, remove peppers from soup (if you love spicy- chop them up and throw one, two or all back in!)
Add the beans and chicken.
Add corn tortillas, cut into strips
Cook 5-10 more minutes.
Flavor with your favorite salt seasoning.
Garnish how you like. We use avocado and cilantro. Cheese and sour cream would be good.