Mexican
Chicken Tortilla Soup
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Chicken Tortilla Soup is Mexican home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the soup and the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Heat the olive oil in a pot and soften the onion, garlic, and jalapeno, about 5 minutes.
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Stir in the cumin and chili powder, then add the tomatoes, broth, and chicken breasts.
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Simmer until the chicken is cooked, about 15 minutes, then remove it, shred it, and return it to the pot.
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Add the black beans and corn and simmer 5 minutes more, seasoning with salt.
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Slice the tortillas into thin strips and crisp them in a dry skillet or bake until golden.
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Ladle the soup into bowls and top with tortilla strips, avocado, cilantro, and a squeeze of lime.
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Serve it with
A Mexican dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Chicken Tortilla Soup, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The protein alongside
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Chicken Tortilla Soup carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish |
|---|---|
| Peanuts | No |
| Tree nuts | No |
| Dairy | No |
| Gluten | No |
| Shellfish | No |
| Eggs | No |
| Soy | No |
| Fish | No |
| Sesame | No |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 360 kcal
- Protein
- 27 g
- Carbs
- 37 g
- Fat
- 11 g
- Fiber
- 10 g
- Sugar
- 7 g
- Sodium
- 920 mg
- Saturated fat
- 2 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Chicken Tortilla Soup takes about 45 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. It is at its best in the fall and winter, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.
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