Tortilla Soup Recipe 
Quick, easy and delicious Mexican-inspired soup
Do you have a favourite soup? Mexican chicken tortilla soup is one of mine. I love that it has a variety of fresh ingredients and that it comes together quickly on a weeknight – especially if you already have leftover chicken! Or, you can omit the chicken and use vegetable broth and beans to adapt this for a vegetarian soup.
What You Need:
- Onion, thinly sliced
- 2 Garlic cloves, minced
- 2 Chicken breasts, diced
- 1 can chopped stewed tomatoes
- 1 tsp cumin
- 1/2 Lime, juiced
- 4 cups chicken or vegetable broth.
- 2 tbsp masa (corn flour) or finely crushed tortilla chips mixed with 1/4 cup water to form a paste (optional)
- Fresh Cilantro, Avocado & Tortilla Chips for garnish (optional)
How To Make Chicken Tortilla Soup
- In a pot, saute the onion until translucent, then add the garlic for about 30 seconds.
- Add the cumin and chicken breasts and saute until browned, but not cooked through.
- Add the canned tomatoes, vegetable broth and masa. Bring to a simmer for 20 minutes.
- Add lime juice at the end.
- Serve topped with avocado, sour cream, cilantro, tortilla chips and a squeeze of lime.
Nutrients per serving:
Per serving of tortilla soup based on 4 servings with 1/4 avocado, 1 tbsp sour cream and 100 grams tortilla chips
- 329 Calories
- 32 g Carbohydrates
- 23 g Protein
- 11.6 g Fat
- 4.5 g Fibre
We hope you enjoy this recipe for Tortilla Soup!
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I can’t find corn flour. Can I grind cornmeal to make corn flour? I want to try the tortilla soup. Thanks!
Hello Carol – great question! If you can’t find masa harina in the international/Mexican foods section of your grocery store you can substitute for some ground up corn tortilla chips or hard taco shells (grind in a food processor or crush finely with a mortar and pestle. You could use corn meal but it isn’t as fine so ideally if you crush the cornmeal in a food processor or with a mortar and pestle it will be better. Hope this helps!