Simple Way to Make Slow Cooker Southwestern Chicken Soup in 21 Minutes at Home

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Slow Cooker Southwestern Chicken Soup is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Slow Cooker Southwestern Chicken Soup is something which I have loved my whole life.

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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have slow cooker southwestern chicken soup using 18 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Slow Cooker Southwestern Chicken Soup:

1. Take bone-in chicken pieces (I like dark meat - more flavor. :) )
2. Prepare water
3. Make ready small onion, cut into 1-inch pieces
4. Get garlic, peeled and lightly crushed
5. Get medium carrots, cut into 1/2-inch thick pieces (I like to cut them big for slow cooking so they don't disintegrate and still retain some texture)
6. Get medium bell pepper, cut into 1-inch pieces (I happened to use the Hatch chilies I roasted the other day, but they're seasonal and sometimes hard to come by even when they're in season)
7. Get large stem celery, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
8. Make ready can black beans, rinsed and drained (optional - I don't always care for beans in this soup - but add a 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt to the recipe if you add the beans)
9. Make ready a 15 oz. can of corn (or 1 cup frozen or fresh corn kernels)
10. Get a 15 oz. can of tomatoes
11. Take cumin
12. Get dried oregano
13. Prepare bay leaves
14. Make ready kosher salt to start
15. Prepare fresh squeezed lime juice
16. Take chopped cilantro (optional for the cilantro haters, of course)
17. Make ready fish sauce (optional, but recommended)
18. Make ready optional garnish: fried tortilla chips or strips, chopped fresh chilies, onions, cilantro, avocado, and lime wedges

Slow Cooker Southwestern Chicken Soup With many pluses on the convenience side of slow cookers, one of their drawbacks is the relative lack of depth and concentration of flavor that you get from the heat level you can maintain on stovetop plus the reduction you can achieve with uncovered cooking. This Slow Cooker Southwestern Chicken Soup is packed with shredded chicken, diced vegetables, beans, corn, and fire roasted tomatoes. It's a great warming recipe to prep for the week. I have been dreaming about this type of soup for awhile - one that allows me to just dump all my favorite southwestern flavors into the slow cooker and walk away for a few hours, to come back to a bowl of.

Instructions to make Slow Cooker Southwestern Chicken Soup:

1. Dump all but garnish ingredients into your slow cooker and give it a few good stirs.
2. Cook on low for 7 to 9 hours, or high for 5 to 7, depending on how hot your slow cooker gets.
3. It's always nice if you can give the soup a few gentle stirs throughout the cooking process, but if you can't manage that because you're out of the house, then you can give it a stir and adjust the seasoning as necessary as soon as you get home. This will give the soup some time to more evenly and thoroughly absorb flavor before you sit down to enjoy it.
4. I like it with a little steamed rice, some chopped onions and cilantro on top, a good extra squeeze of lime, and a few lashings of Tapatío. :) - - Enjoy!

Slow cooking just got even more convenient. Slow Cooker Southwest Chicken Soup Recipe Variations vegetarian - substitute black or pinto beans for the chicken and vegetable broth (affiliate link) for the chicken broth veggie rich - add more veggies, carrots, celery, cauliflower, zucchini, yellow squash, lima beans, sweet potatoes, butternut squash, etc. In an electric pressure cooker combine diced chicken, enchilada sauce, diced tomatoes, black beans, corn, chilies, cumin, and chicken stock. Release pressure, season with salt to taste, and serve. Garnish with cilantro, shredded cheese, sour cream, avocado, and lime wedges.

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