Recipe: Appetizing Chicken Tortilla Soup

Chicken Tortilla Soup.

You can have Chicken Tortilla Soup using 16 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Chicken Tortilla Soup

1. Prepare 4 of boneless skinless chicken thighs.
2. It's 4 of plum tomatoes.
3. Prepare 4 cloves of garlic.
4. It's 1 of chile (your choice, anaheim, jalapeño, etc.).
5. Prepare 1 of red bell pepper.
6. It's 2 of tortillas.
7. You need 1 can of black beans.
8. It's 1 carton of chicken stock.
9. You need 2 teaspoons of tomato paste.
10. Prepare of salt.
11. You need of pepper.
12. Prepare of avocado.
13. It's of cilantro.
14. You need 2 of limes.
15. It's 1/2 can of corn (optional).
16. It's of sour cream (optional).

Chicken Tortilla Soup step by step

1. Blacken tomatoes, onion, chile, pepper, and garlic (with peel on) in a cast iron pot.
2. Take blackened veggies out, peel garlic, and put them in a blender with 2 tortillas and 2 cups of chicken broth. Blend until smooth.
3. Season chicken with salt and pepper and cook in the same cast iron pot.
4. Once chicken has cooked until yellow, take it out to cool.
5. Add oil to pot and scrape off bits of chicken that have stuck to the bottom..
6. Add blended tomato mixture along with another 4 cups of chicken stock and tomato paste, and bring to a slow simmer with the chicken, black beans, and corn (if you're using it).
7. Cook for 30 mins.
8. Take chicken out and onto a board, and slice it into bite-sized pieces.
9. Put chicken pieces back into the pot, turn off heat, and squeeze lime juice into the pot..
10. Serve garnished with avocado slices, chopped cilantro, sour cream and crunchy tortilla strips..