The Best And Easy Healthy Chili Soup Chicken Enchilada Home Made Recipe

Chili’s Chicken Enchilada Soup is Creamy, Rich, Slightly Spicy And Thick Blended Together And Topped With Chunks Of Chicken Breast Meat.

Chicken Enchilada Soup is a delicious, easy soup make with some fun and unique ingredients you’ll love! Unlike most Mexican soups this one doesn’t have a whole bunch of vegetables inside.

In fact the only one in there, onions, sort of disappear into the soup as it cooks. It also has a deliciously thick texture that is from something called masa harina.

I have a bag of masa harina I love using for a bunch of different recipes, but the use of it in this recipe to thicken the soup is a less expensive and easier way compared to the boiling of ground corn tortillas that more authentic enchilada soups use.

If you can’d find the masa harina or if you have corn tortillas and want to use them up, add them to your food processor and process them as finely as you can. They will break down fully in the soup.

What is masa harina? Masa harina is made from dried corn which is soaked in lime and water before being ground into flour. It’s commonly used in the making of tortillas.

First things first, the original version of the recipe calls for masa harina, which can be difficult to find if you don’t have any ethnic grocers nearby. I buy this one at my local store but a good online version is this one although admittedly more expensive.

Ingredients:

CHICKEN ENCHILADA SOUP

1 pound chicken breasts boneless skinless and cut into 1? chunks

1 teaspoon Kosher salt divided

2 tablespoons canola oil

3/4 yellow onion diced (the rest of the onion goes to the topping)

1 teaspoon chili powder

1 teaspoon cumin

1 garlic clove minced

4 cups chicken broth

1 cup masa harina

4 cups water

1 1/2 cups enchilada sauce or one 12 ounce can

8 ounces cream cheese cheese cut into small cubes

8 ounces sharp cheddar cheese

TOPPINGS:

2 roma tomatoes diced

1/4 yellow onion diced

1/2 jalapeno deseeded, deveined and minced

1/4 cup chopped cilantro

1/8 teaspoon kosher salt

1 pinch coarse ground black pepper

1/4 cup cotija cheese crumbles

 

 

Instructions:

Note: click on times in the instructions to start a kitchen timer while cooking.

In a large dutch oven add the canola oil over medium high heat.

Add half the kosher salt to the chicken pieces and add them to the dutch oven.

Cook the chicken 3-4 minutes on each side, until just cooked through.

Remove the chicken and add in the onions and garlic and lower the heat to medium.

Add in the spices and cook for 3-4 minutes until translucent.

Add in the chicken broth and whisk.

In a large bowl add the masa harina to the water and whisk it together well.

Add it into the dutch oven along with the enchilada sauce.

Add the chicken back in. Stir well and let simmer for 30-40 minutes on low heat.

Add in the cream cheese and cheddar cheese and stir well until melted.

Add the topping ingredients, except for the cotija cheese into a bowl together and stir.

Top the soup with some of the tomato mixture and some crumbled cheese.

Source:https://dinnerthendessert.com/chilis-chicken-enchilada-soup/