Creamy Chicken Enchilada Soup is a hearty soup filled with chunks of tender chicken, black beans, corn, peppers, and tomatoes.
Everything comes together in a creamy rich soup base that tastes like the red chile enchiladas at your favorite Mexican restaurant.
Enchilada Soup
This soup can be simmered through the day in a Crock-pot, allowing dinner to be ready whenever you’re hungry. Alternatively, it can be pulled together on the stovetop in less than 20 minutes.
However you make it, your family and friends are sure to love this Chicken Enchilada Soup.
Soups are a fall dinner favorite and I am making the most of the soup weather over here. It seems like half the pics on my camera these days are soups or stews. This is my oldest son’s favorite soup these days.
I make this soup on a fairly regular rotation and realized the other day it was way past time to update the photos and share it with you again!
Creamy Enchilada Soup
Chicken enchilada soup is an extremely versatile recipe. I constantly adapt it to what is on hand. Last year, I used some of the leftover turkey to make a batch of this soup. You can swap in whichever beans you like best as well.
Top your bowl of soup with whatever makes each person the happiest: shredded cheese, sour cream, extra cilantro and green onions, or tortilla strips.
You’ll need the following ingredients to make this recipe:
- yellow onion
- garlic
- cooked chicken
- chicken broth
- petite diced tomatoes
- red enchilada sauce
- chopped green chile (frozen, canned, or fresh is fine)
- black beans
- corn
- taco seasoning
- heavy cream
- salt and pepper
Tender bites of steak, spicy sausage, five different varieties of beans, tomatoes, and green chili add up to an irresistible steak chili that is a family favorite all winter long.
Start the chili in the morning and let it simmer though the day for a dinner that will have everyone smiling. Does anything smell better in the fall than a spicy pot of chili simmering on the stove?
Once upon a time, probably 15+ years ago now, my friend Shannon brought a huge pot of chili to a party – and that chili was absolutely perfect. I’d been making chili for years and mine was never bad, but it was also never amazing.
I ate two huge servings of her chili and then pestered her for the recipe. Lucky for all of us, she was sweet enough to send it to me. I could not believe that our chili recipes were virtually identical save for one ingredient.
Chili with Ranch Style Beans
That one ingredient though? It made the difference between an “okay” chili recipe and a chili that can knock your socks off. The ingredient is the Ranch Style Beans!
This chili makes me so happy. It makes me grin when I smell it throughout the house and I look forward to dinner all day long. Whether I make it on the stove or in the slow cooker, the smell of chili simmering brings so much joy and comfort to my day.
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