Santa Fe Tastic Tortilla Soup Recipes

Steps:

• Heat a grill pan to high and a soup pot to medium high.
• Drizzle oil on corn and place on grill. Add red pepper to grill with corn. Char vegetables 10 minutes, total, turning occasionally. Remove to cool, 5 minutes.
• Remove charred skin from the pepper.
• While vegetables cook, dice chicken. Add 2 tablespoons oil to hot soup pot. Add chicken to pot. Season with poultry seasoning, cumin, salt and pepper. Lightly brown chicken on each side. Add zucchini, onions and garlic and chipotle peppers. Cook vegetables with chicken 5 to 7 minutes to soften. Add tomatoes, tomato sauce and stock.
• Bring soup to a bubble, reduce heat to medium low.
• Scrape corn off cob and add to soup.
• Chop grilled red pepper and stir into soup.
• Can simmer for about an hour or serve right away. This just gets better with time.
• Add chips to soup in handfuls and stir.
• Serve soup immediately with scatter of shredded cheese and a dollop of sour cream.
• Top with any or all of the suggested garnishes. Best with big chunks of avacado.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Slice 6 of the tortillas into 1-inch strips, and then arrange them on a baking sheet in a single layer and spray with cooking spray. Bake until deeply golden, season with salt and reserve.
• Heat the corn oil in a soup pot or large Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Chop the remaining 6 tortillas into 1 to 1 1/2-inch squares, and then stir into the pot 1 minute. Add the chili powder, cumin, garlic, bay leaves, onions and cilantro, sprinkle with some salt and pepper and stir to toast the spices. Cook until the onions are translucent, 12 to 15 minutes.
• Pour in the stock with the tomatoes and chiles and bring to a boil. Add the chicken, reduce the heat a bit and simmer to cook through, 15 minutes. Remove the chicken, slice or chop the breasts, and then return to the soup. Remove the bay leaves before serving.
• To serve, dice the avocados and cut the limes into wedges. Place some avocado at the bottom of each soup bowl and douse with a healthy squeeze of lime juice before filling the bowls with soup. At the table, top the soup with the baked tortilla strips, jalapenos, red onions, queso fresco and sour cream.

Steps:

• Vegetable or corn oil, for drizzling, plus 2 tablespoons (2 turns of the pot in a slow stream).
• Heat a grill pan to high and a soup pot to medium high. Drizzle oil on corn and place on grill. Add red pepper to grill with corn. Char vegetables 10 minutes, total, turning occasionally. Remove to cool, 5 minutes. Remove charred skin from the pepper.
• While vegetables cook, dice chicken. Add 2 tablespoons oil to hot soup pot. Add chicken to pot. Season with poultry seasoning, cumin, salt and pepper. Lightly brown chicken on each side. Add onions and garlic and chipotle peppers. Cook vegetables with chicken 5 to 7 minutes to soften. Add tomatoes, tomato sauce and stock. Bring soup to a bubble, reduce heat to medium low.
• Scrape corn off cob and add to soup. Chop grilled red pepper and stir into soup. Add chips to soup in handfuls and fold together.
• Serve soup immediately with scatter of shredded cheese and a dollop of sour cream. Top with any or all of the suggested garnishes.

Steps:

• In a large pot, saute meat and onion together until meat it cooked through.
• Stir in seasonings.
• Add remaining ingredients (and juice from all cans) and simmer for 2 hours.
• Garnish with sour cream, sliced green onion, chopped pickled jalapeno, shredded cheddar cheese, and either tortilla chips or Fritos.

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a Dutch oven and add the chicken.
• Season with the poultry seasoning, cumin, salt and pepper.
• Lightly brown the chicken.
• Add the zucchini, onion, garlic and chipotle pepper.
• Cook the vegetables with the chicken 5 to 7 minutes to soften.
• Add the tomatoes, tomato sauce and stock.
• Bring to a boil and then reduce the heat to medium-low.
• Simmer for 20 minutes.
• Add the corn and roasted red pepper to the soup and heat through.
• At this point, you can stir the crushed tortilla chips into the soup but I prefer to divide them between the soup dishes and ladle the hot soup over them.
• Garnish each serving with a dollop of sour cream and a generous sprinkle of cheese.

Steps:

• Brown ground beef with onion; drain fat well.
• In a large pot combine ground beef, corn, beans and stewed tomatoes and Ro-tel tomatoes.
• Cube cheese and add to soup pot; stir over low flame until melted and blended.