My Go-to Chicken Enchilada Soup

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a bowl of chicken enchilada soup topped with slices of lime, cilantro leaves, jalapeno slices, etc

My go-to recipe for Chicken Enchilada Soup is everything I want in a weeknight dinner—easy, hearty, and packed with flavor. Made with shredded chicken, black beans, corn, enchilada sauce, and warm Mexican spices, it has all the delicious flavors of chicken enchiladas in a comforting bowl of soup.

I love using rotisserie chicken to make this recipe even faster. With simple pantry ingredients and just 30 minutes from start to finish, it’s the kind of comforting meal the whole family gets excited about.

My picky 10-year-old is about ready to do me in with the whining and complaining every time he asks, “What’s for dinner?” Thankfully, this Chicken Enchilada Soup is on his very short list of dinners he can eat without complaining, so we make it often. Not only for our sanity, but because it’s so dang delicious!

Why You’ll Love This Chicken Enchilada Soup

  • All the enchilada flavor, none of the rolling: You get that bold red enchilada flavor in an easy, hearty bowl of soup.
  • Ready in 30 minutes: Rotisserie chicken and pantry staples make this a seriously fast dinner.
  • A broth with BIG flavor: Sautéing and blending the vegetables with enchilada sauce creates a smooth, rich soup base that tastes like it simmered much longer.
  • Picky-eater approved: This is one of the few dinners my pickiest kid happily eats without complaining!
  • One pot, easy cleanup: Everything comes together right on the stovetop for a low-fuss weeknight meal.
  • Made for toppings: Load each bowl with cheese, avocado, sour cream, tortilla strips, cilantro, jalapeños, or a squeeze of fresh lime.
  • Great for leftovers: The flavors get even better as the soup sits, and leftovers freeze beautifully for another easy dinner.

Ingredients You’ll Need

One of the best things about this chicken enchilada soup recipe is that it’s made with simple pantry staples and easy-to-find ingredients. Together they create a hearty soup loaded with bold enchilada flavor.

  • Olive Oil: Used to sauté the vegetables and build flavor at the start of the soup.
  • Onion: Adds savory depth and creates the flavor foundation for the broth.
  • Celery Stalks: Provides subtle flavor and extra texture.
  • Carrot: Adds natural sweetness and balances the spices.
  • Red Bell Pepper: Adds color, sweetness, and a mild pepper flavor.
  • Garlic: Brings bold, savory flavor to every spoonful.
  • Red Enchilada Sauce: The star ingredient that gives the soup its classic enchilada flavor.
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Honey Curry Chicken

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A metal, vintage bowl filled with white long grain rice and shredded chicken with a simple honey curry sauce made in an instant pot with cilantro on top. easy instant pot honey chicken

Our honey curry chicken is a tender chicken recipe smothered in a sweet, savory curry sauce that’s so good you’ll want extra rice just to soak it up.

This Honey Curry Baked Chicken recipe is everything you want in an easy dinner recipe. It comes together with a few minutes prep and it all bakes in one pan! It’s packed with delicious flavors and it’s the perfect weeknight dinner. 

Anyone else tired of the same boring dinner recipes? I need an easy chicken dinner but I’m tired of the same boring chicken. 

I’m so tired of making the same chicken dinner! So I set out to create something new for anyone else that’s trying to make a quick and easy dinner with boneless, skinless chicken.

My qualifications were it had to be:

  • quick
  • family-friendly
  • pantry-friendly
  • inexpensive
  • different enough to feel exciting

I tried a few different chicken recipes from the top bloggers but they ended up laborious, flavorless or kind of dry. I hate dry chicken. Which meant, I had added a new category to my checklist, cannot be dry! And my friends, after months of testing I ended up back at an old, lost recipe from our newlywed years. You are going to be OBSESSED!

Why You’ll Love This Honey Curry Chicken

  • One-pan dinner
  • Just minutes of prep
  • Sweet and savory flavor
  • Juicy baked chicken
  • Family-friendly
  • Great over rice
  • Perfect weeknight meal
  • Pantry staple ingredients
  • Delicious leftovers

Ingredients You’ll Need

Craving Something Different? This Easy Honey Curry Chicken Uses Simple Ingredients:

  • Chicken Breasts: Boneless, skinless chicken breasts bake up tender and juicy. Chicken thighs also work well.
  • Butter: Creates a rich, silky sauce and helps keep the chicken moist.
  • Honey: Adds sweetness and helps the sauce caramelize beautifully.
  • Dijon Mustard: Balances the sweetness with a little tang and depth.
  • Curry Powder: Adds warm, earthy flavor without overwhelming heat.
  • Chicken Seasoning: Gives the chicken an extra boost of savory flavor.
  • Lemon Pepper: Brightens the rich sauce.
  • Salt: Brings all the flavors together.

Easy Teriyaki Chicken Rice Bowl

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a bowl of rice topped with strips of teriyaki chicken and sauteed vegetables

Forget takeout! These teriyaki chicken rice bowls have juicy grilled chicken, fresh sautéed veggies and the stickiest homemade teriyaki sauce, all ready in about 30 minutes.

It’s faster than takeout, uses simple ingredients, and makes an easy weeknight dinner everyone can customize.

Yesterday I said to my husband, I want takeout-style teriyaki chicken, but I need an easy dinner I can make at home. And voila, we made these awesome teriyaki rice bowls!

The reality is, you want takeout but don’t have the time to pick up, budget to eat out or desire to eat fast food. So what do you do when you’re craving takeout?  Skip the Takeout: This Easy Teriyaki Chicken Bowl Is Ready in 30 Minutes and makes a great freezer meal!

The first time I made teriyaki chicken at home I was so disappointed by the dry chicken with a watery sauce that was overly sweet and nothing like my favorite takeout. We had to test a lot of different recipes and styles (ditch the slow cooker this time) to come up with a 20-30 minute dinner idea that’s a cheap recipe on a busy weeknight. Buying a low sodium sauce helps it not be too salty that you need to load it with brown sugar and still maintains the flavor. 

But there was still one problem: thin and watery sauce was not what I remembered from our local restaurant. I need a thick, glossy and sticky sauce. The perfect amount of cornstarch or ez gel solved that problem with just a few turns of the whisk and heat set to simmer! 

QUICK LOOK

  • Time: 30 minutes
  • Protein: Chicken thighs
  • Sauce: Homemade teriyaki
  • Veggies: Carrots, zucchini, squash + onion
  • Best for: Quick dinners and meal prep

Why You’ll Love This Teriyaki Chicken Rice Bowl

  • Ready in 30 minutes: Chicken, veggies, rice and homemade sauce without spending all night in the kitchen.
  • Better than takeout: That sticky homemade teriyaki sauce makes the whole bowl.
  • Kid-approved: This is one of the few dinners every single one of my kids devours.
  • Easy to customize: Swap the vegetables, protein or rice and make it your own.

Ingredients You Will Need

Teriyaki Chicken

  • Soy Sauce: The salty, savory base of our homemade teriyaki sauce.
  • Brown Sugar + Honey: Add sweetness and help create that

Balsamic Chicken Marinade

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Balsamic Chicken Marinade

When it comes to summer grilling, this balsamic chicken marinade is the one I come back to every single time. Made with just a handful of pantry staples, it delivers bold, tangy, savory flavor that works on any cut of chicken and comes together in about two minutes flat.

This balsamic marinade has been years in the making, tweaked and tested until it hit exactly the right balance. Balsamic vinegar brings the tang, olive oil adds richness, garlic gives it depth, and a pinch of sugar ties it all together. That is truly it.

No complicated ingredients, no special equipment, just a ziplock bag and a little time in the fridge. It works beautifully on chicken breasts, thighs, drumsticks, and kabobs, making it the most versatile marinade in my rotation. This is one of my favorite chicken recipes!

Balsamic Chicken Marinade Ingredients

Seven simple ingredients that you almost certainly already have on hand. Here is what each one brings to the marinade:

  • Olive Oil: The fat base of the marinade that helps it cling to the chicken and keeps everything juicy and tender on the grill.
  • Balsamic Vinegar: The acid component that tenderizes the chicken while adding that rich, tangy, slightly sweet depth of flavor the whole marinade is built around.
  • Dijon Mustard: Acts as an emulsifier that helps bind the oil and vinegar together while adding a subtle tangy depth to the overall flavor.
  • Honey: Balances the acidity of the vinegar and mustard with natural sweetness and helps create a beautiful caramelized finish when grilled.
  • Garlic: Freshly minced garlic adds a bold, savory punch that infuses into the chicken as it marinates.
  • Dried Basil: Brings a subtle, herby, Italian-inspired flavor that complements the balsamic beautifully.
  • Salt: Seasons the chicken all the way through and enhances every other ingredient in the marinade.
  • Black Pepper: Adds a gentle heat and a little bite that keeps the marinade from being one-note.

This recipe uses pantry staples, making it perfect for meal prep or feeding a group. Measurements can be found in the recipe card below. 

How to Make Balsamic Chicken Marinade

This could not be simpler. Here is all it takes:

  1. Combine: Add all the ingredients to a ziplock bag or airtight container and mix well.
  2. Add: Place the chicken into the bag with the marinade and seal tightly, pressing out as much air as possible.
  3. Marinate: Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes, or up to 24 hours for the deepest flavor.
  4. Cook: Grill, bake, or pan sear the chicken using your preferred method until cooked through. Using a meat thermometer ensure the chicken reaches an Internal Temperature of 165 F 

The longer the chicken marinates, the d

Creamy Peach Chicken

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a photo of a baked chicken breast topped with sliced fresh peaches and a creamy sauce

This quick and simple recipe for creamy baked peach chicken is perfect for a busy weeknight. With the sweet and tangy flavors of fresh peaches and tender chicken, it’s sure to become a family favorite. 

While I was working on our roasted peach chicken recipe, I kept thinking that a creamy baked version would be so good! So I set to work on testing a creamy peach chicken recipe and this is it! It is so delicious and a perfect way to use those juicy summer peaches! We pan sear the chicken first and then let it finish cooking in the oven. It’s so easy!

Last year we ordered our first box of peaches from Pearson Farm, and we will be doing that from now on! Peach season is so short here in Utah and those sweet Georgia peaches are so dang good!

Now don’t get me wrong, I am allllllll about using peaches in sweet dessert recipes! Those are some of absolute faves! Our peach crisp is phenomenal! Then there are the peach cobbler and peach dumplings. I could go on and on, but there is something so unexpectedly delightful about peaches in a savory dish. The peaches really shine in this creamy peach chicken recipe!

Ingredients for Creamy Peach Chicken

This recipe requires ingredients for a chicken marinade, a roasting sauce and a dry chicken rub. There is nothing too fancy or complicated, but everything combined is so tasty. Here is everything you will need:

  • Chicken Breasts: We prefer to use bone-in and skin-on chicken breasts for maximum flavor, but often end up using boneless skinless chicken breasts for ease.
  • Marinade: Peach Preserves and Heavy Cream
  • Roasting Sauce: White Wine Vinegar, Thyme (fresh or dried), Dijon Mustard, Olive Oil, Shallots, Garlic, Sea Salt, Black Pepper and Peaches
  • Dry Rub: Chili Powder, Smoked Paprika, Cinnamon, Salt and Pepper

The measurements needed for each ingredient can be found in the recipe card at the end of the post.

How to Make Creamy Peach Chicken

If you’re looking for a quick and easy weeknight dinner, then add this chicken recipe to your menu this week! It is full of flavor and simple to make. Here is your step by step guide for making the recipe:

  1. Marinate: Add the peach preserves, cream and chicken to a ziploc bag and squish to combine. Let the chicken marinate in the fridge for at least an hour, up to overnight.
  2. Prep: When you’re ready to cook it, pull the chicken out of the marinade and save the marinade. Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F and pat the chicken breasts dry.
  3. Rub: Combine all the ingredients for the rub in a small bowl and stir to combine. Rub the chicken all over with the rub mixture.
  4. Make the Sauce: Whisk all the ingredients for the sauce together in a separate bowl and set aside.
  5. Sear: Heat a large cast
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