It's a pretty easy, mess-free recipe which makes quite a lot - I had left overs for several days.
Chicken Enchilada Crock-pot Soup (Original recipe can be found here)
Olive Oil
1/2 C onion, chopped
3 TBLS garlic, minced
3 C chicken broth
8 oz can tomato sauce
2 chipotle peppers in adobo sauce, chopped
chopped cilantro
15 oz can black beans, drained
2 cans diced tomatoes
bag frozen corn
1 tsp cumin
dried oregano
3 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
Toppings:
sour cream
shredded cheddar cheese
chopped scallions
1. Heat oil in a saucepan, add onion and garlic and saute until soft. Add chicken broth, tomato sauce, and chipotle adobo sauce and bring to a boil. Add cilantro and remove from heat - pour into crock pot.
2. To the crockpot, add the drained beans, diced tomatoes, corn, cumin, oregano, and stir. Add the chicken breasts.
*3. Cover and cook on low 2hrs. Remove chicken breasts and shred them. Add back into the crock pot and continue cooking (on high heat) another 1 1/2hrs. Serve in bowls with sour cream, cheese, and scallions.
I didn't measure the cilantro - I bought a nice looking bunch of it at the market, and chopped what I felt was enough for the soup. It's one of those "feel it as you go" things. I do that a lot in my kitchen.
*The original recipe says to cover and cook on low heat 4-6hrs. Well, this is the only place I differed in my recipe from the original. I cooked it on low for about 2hrs, and then my friend was coming over, so I whipped that puppy up to high heat for another 1 1/2hrs, and it turned out just fine.
Also, originally I had put in three chipotle peppers from the adobo sauce, with two of them chopped up so the seeds were exposed. Well, when I went to check how it was cooking in the crockpot, I took a little taste and had a massive coughing fit because it was super hot. I'd heard the chipotle adobo sauce was pretty intense, but I scoffed because I enjoy my food hot and spicy. Haha. Oh, Julia. After coughing half a lung up, I was worried the soup was ruined. However, with fearless determination, I dove into the soup with a slotted spoon and fished out the 1 whole pepper I had left in there, and several bits of chopped up pepper, in a hope to lessen the hotness factor halfway through the game. Well, crisis averted, and the soup was wonderfully delicious!
And apologies for not getting a shot of shredding the chicken - I still forget I am supposed to photograph my steps :P
Happy Cooking, dear readers!