Chicken Tortilla Soup

Dec 16, 2022

Chicken Tortilla Soup for Crock Pot – This homemade recipe for chicken tortilla soup is made in the crock pot. Or, in our case, we use the VitaClay Organic Multi-Cooker with clay insert (more on this in a minute) to cut our “slow cooker” cooking time down to 3 hours. But, the best part about this recipe is that you can toss everything into the clay insert and have dinner ready without much effort. Oh, it’s also healthy! Let’s get started.

Reduce Crock Pot Cooking Time to 3 Hours

Using the VitaClay Organic Multi-cooker not only is a healthier option with the clay insert, but reduces the crock pot slow cooker time from 8 hours to 3 hours. This is a great solution for me because I often forget to start my crock pot in the morning and 3 hours to throw this chicken tortilla soup recipe together is easy. It’s also great for weekends and getting together a slow cooked meal in 3 hours!

A few more things we love about the VitaClay Organic Multi-Cooker:

Natural, unglazed and organic Zisha clay enhances flavors and preserves important nutrients, enzymes, and vitamins in all of the dishes you make this in the cooker. Plus, the all-natural clay insert promotes even cooking.
In a VitaClay pot, your food is always free from added non-stick chemical glazes, lead and aluminum contacting your foods. Healthy cookware is imperative to having a healthy diet.
The VitaClay Smart Organic Multicooker is simple to use and fully programmable. Double lid design creates micro-pressure to maximize steaming quality for tender and flavorful food and cuts slow cooking time and energy usage in half.

How to Make Chicken Tortilla Soup for Crock Pot

It’s almost too easy to make this chicken tortilla soup for crock pot slow cooking between 3-8 hours depending on what type of crock pot you have. In general, you’re going to open a bunch of bpa-free, organic cans and dump them together. Add some chicken and chicken or bone broth and done.

Here’s the ingredient list for my homemade chicken tortilla soup:

3 cans of Rotel tomatoes and green chilies
1 can organic black beans, drained
1 organic pinto beans, drained
frozen organic corn
organic red enchilada sauce
organic chicken broth or homemade bone broth
4 boneless, skinless chicken thighs

Then, gather your toppings — this is what we use:

homemade lime crema
homemade tortilla chips
fresh avocado with sea salt and lime juice
fresh cilantro chopped into small pieces

4 Easy Steps to Making Homemade Chicken Tortilla Soup for Crock Pot

You can make this in a crock pot/slowcooker or try our VitaClay pot shared about. The benefit to the VitaClay pot is the clay insert and dramatically reduced cooking time. See below for the 4 simple steps to making homemade chicken tortilla coup for crock pot or VitaClay.

To a slow cooker or the VitaClay clay pot, add the rotel, drained blacks beans, drained pinto beans, corn, enchilada sauce and chicken broth. Stir to combine.
Place the chicken on top of the mixture and gently push until fully submerged.
Cover and set your crock pot on low for 8 hours or high for 4 hours. For the VitaClay, set the cooker to “slow cooker/stew” and set for 3 hours.
Once done, use a fork to remove the chicken from slow cooker and shred in a bowl. Return to the slow cooker and combine. Serve warm.

Toppings for this Chicken Tortilla Soup

Around here we look at toppings as “the more the merrier”. So, you’ll always see me dressing up my dishes with fresh herbs, fresh veggies and dairy free additions.

For this chicken tortilla soup for crock pot, I have lovingly added the following as toppings:

Homemade recipe for Lime Crema – The perfect creamy and zesty addition to any Mexican recipe is this fresh Cilantro Lime Crema. Made with cashews, this recipe is dairy free and naturally gluten free. Loaded with nutrients, you’ll never feel guilty piling it on top of your dish.

Delicious and salty Tortilla Chips – Baked corn tortilla chips homemade style taste so much better than anything you can buy. Just 3 simple ingredients and the crunch and sea salt factor is out of this world.

Fresh diced avocado with sea salt and lime juice – As soon as I pop the core out, I sliced it into a cross-hatch, add fresh lime juice and some pink sea salt. Makes such a creamy addition to this soup.

Fresh cilantro – Just grab a bunch of cilantro and start chopping away. We LOVE to sprinkle fresh cilantro whenever possible. It’s a very strong flavored herb, but perfect for all of our Mexican-inspired dishes.

What to Pair with Chicken Tortilla Soup

Naturally, these homemade salty Tortilla Chips are the perfect addition, but you can also make a side salad with our homemade ranch (that is to die for!), or either our grain free biscuits or gluten free biscuits.

This soup has such tremendous flavor — and perfect for warming up the next day too.