Hen Taco Soup Recipe • Kath Eats

This hen taco soup recipe is made straightforward with the assistance of a gradual cooker. With hearty beans, shredded hen, and Mexican spices, it’s loaded with taste and certain to be a household favourite.

Taco Soup Tuesday!

We love Taco Tuesday at our home, however we are inclined to eat extra tacos within the spring and summer season than we do within the coronary heart of winter.

When it’s chilly exterior, we maintain the taco theme alive with our household’s favourite hen taco soup recipe. It’s absolutely the best to throw collectively in a gradual cooker on a busy weeknight – everybody loves it and goes again for second helpings. It simmers all afternoon and is able to get pleasure from come dinnertime.

This hen taco soup marries all the scrumptious taco flavors collectively in a single bowl.

This protein-rich, gluten-free recipe might be prepped in underneath half-hour (a precedence for me!). It’s loaded with fiber from beans, has the most effective taste from candy corn and shredded hen, and has that spicy, taco taste that we crave.

This soup freezes nicely and the flavors solely get higher when reheated for lunches all through the week.

I hope you like this recipe as a lot as we do!

Hen Taco Soup Recipe

Components

• olive oil
• garlic
• jalapeno
• chili beans
• black beans
• entire kernel corn
• tomato sauce
• diced tomatoes with inexperienced chiles
• taco seasoning
• zucchini
• skinless, boneless, hen breasts
• cheddar cheese
• bitter cream
• tortilla chips

How To Make Hen Taco Soup

Step 1. Mix components – minus hen and zucchini – in your gradual cooker and stir collectively. 

Mix the minced garlic, chili beans, black beans, corn, olive oil, jalapeño, tomato sauce, diced tomatoes and taco seasoning into the gradual cooker and stir.

Step 2. Add hen

As soon as stirred, add the hen breast immediately on prime, and press it down flippantly in order that the opposite components cowl it.

Step 3. Prepare dinner for 3-4 hours on low

Put the gradual cooker on low, add the lid, and let all the pieces prepare dinner for 3-4 hours.

Step 4. Shred the hen

After the cooking time has handed, take away the hen breasts and shred them. Then, add the shredded hen again into the remainder of the soup components. 

Step 5. Add the zucchini.

Cube your zucchini into small items earlier than including to the soup (you may go away the pores and skin on!). In the event you like your soup to be thinner, you may add a bit of little bit of water at this level. 

Step 5. Prepare dinner quarter-hour extra

Prepare dinner the combination for quarter-hour on excessive warmth. 

Step 6. Serve with toppings

Serve with a dollop of bitter cream, crunchy tortilla chips, and shredded cheddar cheese.

Suggestions For Making The Greatest Hen Taco Soup

• You should use pre-cooked rotisserie hen and add in on the finish (as an alternative of creating your personal shredded hen) 
• Soup too thick? Add some hen broth to get the consistency of your liking 
• We like utilizing shredded white cheddar on prime, however you should utilize pre-shredded cheese or no matter you favor (can at all times omit if dairy-free)
• You probably have ripe avocado and contemporary cilantro and limes available, add them to your choice of toppings

What To Serve with Hen Taco Soup

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