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Chicken Tortilla Soup

Homemade Chicken Tortilla Soup made from scratch

One of the nice things about writing this blog is that it makes it easy for me to find my go-to recipes without having to sift through piles of recipe cards or magazine pages. A lot of times, after writing a post, I’ll throw away my hard copy of the recipe, especially if it was hastily scratched out on a scrap of paper, most likely the back of a piece of junk mail or an old receipt. But there are a few recipes that, no matter how many times I’ve made it or how easy it is to look up on this blog, I will always make the extra effort to find in print. This recipe is a perfect example. My copy of it is written out on an old piece of plain paper, not one that came out of a cheap ream of white printer paper, but out of a small box of nice paper for writing letters. It is written very carefully in my mom’s beautiful cursive with a felt-tip pen (with a tiny correction in Nana’s distinct handwriting in black ball-point). It is a recipe that I treasure, not because it is so delicious (it is!), but because it was written with love and care many decades ago. And I assure you that after I publish this post, I will still make the effort to find it every time I make Tortilla Soup.

Homemade Chicken Tortilla Soup made from scratch

Tortilla Soup
 
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Serves: 4-6
Ingredients
  • ½ cup chopped onion
  • 1 4-oz can green chilies
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • 3¾ cups water
  • 1½ cups tomato juice
  • 1 8-oz can tomato sauce
  • 1 medium tomato, chopped
  • 1 teaspoon beef bullion granules
  • 1 teaspoon cumin
  • 1 teaspoon chili powder
  • 1 teaspoon worcestershire sauce
  • ¼ teaspoon pepper
  • 2-4 drops tobasco
  • 2-3 cups cooked and shredded chicken
  • 1 cup shredded monterey jack
  • peeled and sliced avocado
  • sour cream
  • 10-12 corn tortillas, fried and cut into strips (I just use the little tortilla strips that you garnish salads with)
Instructions
  1. In a little oil in a dutch oven, saute onion, chiles, garlic. Add water, tomato juice, tomato sauce, tomato, bullion, cumin, chili powder, worcestershire sauce, pepper, and tobasco. Stir and cover. Reduce heat and simmer 1 hour. Add chicken. Serve in bowls, topped with cheese, avocado, sour cream, and tortilla strips.
Notes
In my mom's original recipe, she writes that you may need to add up to 2 extra cups of water if the soup is too thick, but I've never added any extra water. You may, however, if you feel you need to.

 

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3 thoughts on “Chicken Tortilla Soup

  1. I wonder… could this recipe be made vegetarian by replacing the chicken with some kind of vegetable (maybe cabbage?) or beans? Hmmm… thanks for the recipe! I might have to play around with it a bit, it looks good!

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