Healthy Tortilla Soup

Healthy Tortilla Soup   

This recipe is really easy and taste even better the next day! It is loaded in flavor and is one of my favorite soups! 

Here are the things you will need to create this amazing soup!! 

Ingredients for soup:

• 3 large chicken breast 
• 1 1/2 onion 
• 2 stalks of celery 
• 2 carrots 
• 1 bunch of cilantro 
• 3 cloves of garlic 
• 4 small jalapenos 
• 1-2 pasilla chilies ( depending on how much heat you want, I used 2)
• 1-2 ancho chilies 
• 5 roma tomatoes 
• salt, pepper, garlic and onion powder ( to taste)  
• *optional- black beans

Toppings for soup:

• chopped cilantro 
• chopped red onion
• cabbage 
• avacado
• lemons 
• plain greek yogurt 
• 6 corn tortillas

-The first thing you want to do is preheat the oven to 350deg to bake the tortilla chips.

-The second thing you want to do is add chicken breast in a pot of water to make the stock along with 1/2 onion, celery, carrots and the stems of the cilantro ( leave them bundled up). let that boil for at least 30-45 min

-Once you have your stock cooking, get tortillas and cut them into strips and add them to a baking sheet and spray with cooking spray and season with salt, pepper and paprika. then bake for 8 min then check on them and move them around then bake for another 8-10 min and then let cool ( as they cool they will become crispier).

-Take chiles and boil until soft (takes around 10 min) 

-Now you want to cut up half the bunch of cilantro, 1 onion, Jalapenos (clean out seeds), and roma tomatoes and then add to blender with about a coup of the stock. also add the garlic and chile peppers (clean out seeds).

- Once the stock is done remove carrots, celery, and onion ( I left the cilantro bunch in there longer but you can take it out if you want) and shred the chicken and season with salt, pepper, garlic, and onion powder then return to stock. Then add the blended up mixture to the stock. Then season with salt, pepper, garlic, and onion powder to taste. And let that set for at least 30 min ( the longer the better). 

-Now that the soup is done and tortilla strips are cooling cut up toppings so they are ready to serve.

-That's it!!! serve and enjoy!!!! :)