Cheesy Chicken Tortilla Soup

Another fine bowl to rid the mutual frigidity humdrum.

This recipe is i I made before this calendar week when Mobile nigh downwards from the H2O ice tempest which by through. Oh yeah, I know many of you lot bargain amongst it everyday, for months on end. We create not. We alive inward a sub-tropical area. Or that is what is was prior to our arctic blast. Many counties nigh the roads downwards to all non-emergency traffic, an unheard of thing. It crippled our surface area because nosotros accept no experience inward dealing amongst ice. I mean, nosotros bargain amongst hurricanes all the fourth dimension as well as before as well as afterward i hits, nosotros are able to bargain amongst it, at to the lowest degree maneuver around our city. But non when the streets are covered inward a thick layer of ice. This is to a greater extent than crippling that a hurricane. We are non equipped to receive got ice.

So hither is something I whipped upward to warm our senses as well as brand us experience a petty better. This is i of those 'feel improve foods' that everyone enjoys when we're, inward our case, literally nether the weather. This recipe is altogether dissimilar as well as faster to brand than some other recipe I posted dorsum inward 2011. Enjoy!

Easy Chicken Tortilla Soup amongst Cheese
about iv servings

1 tablespoon olive oil
iv boneless chicken thighs
1/4 loving cup diced bell pepper
1/2 loving cup diced onion
1 -1 oz packet No Salt Taco seasoning (Mrs. Dash)
1/4 loving cup mild salsa
three cups beef broth
1/2 loving cup corn kernels
1 -14.5 oz die tomatoes, amongst liquid
1 -15 oz reddish or pinto beans, rinsed as well as drained
salt
iv -8 inch flour tortillas
1 1/3 cups shredded Mexican melting cheese blend

Remove whatsoever visible fatty from chicken as well as cutting into smaller-than-bite size pieces. Sprinkle amongst a petty salt.

Heat petroleum inward a large saucepan over medium high heat. When hot, add together chicken. Allow to lightly brownish before stirring. Add bell pepper as well as onion, cooking until both are tender. Stir inward Taco seasoning. Add salsa, broth, tomatoes amongst juice as well as beans. Stir as well as add together tabular array salt to desired taste. (I added virtually 1/2 teaspoon) Allow soup to come upward to a simmer as well as cut oestrus to low. Cook for 10 minutes.

Meanwhile, cutting tortillas into thin, strips as well as toast inward a 325 score F. oven for virtually five minutes or until lite brown. Remove as well as when cool, interruption into 1 to 2-inch lenghts.

When laid upward to serve, ladle soup into bowls as well as function yesteryear each amongst 1/3 loving cup of the melting cheese. I similar to serve the tortilla strips on the side as well as add together a few at a time.

Note: Use practiced character bouillon cubes or granules to brand an easy, instant base.