Gluten Free Creamy Chicken Tortilla Soup

This recipe is super simple and you probably have all of the ingredients in your pantry and freezer. As you know, I have been working to be better about using our leftovers so for me this time around making this recipe I used almost all leftovers in place of the store bought ingredients.

I would encourage you to be flexible with cooking. I used to really stress out about making a recipe exactly as it was written. Now I look at recipes as guidelines and experiment more in the kitchen. Yes, sometimes that means dinner is a flop, but that is what frozen pizza is for! Am I right? I’m totally right.

This soup also comes together extremely fast since all of the ingredients are all already cooked and you are basically just heating them through. It also freezes pretty well.

Here are the last minute modifications I made as I was throwing this together one night last week.

• In place of the canned tomatoes and chili’s, I used 2 small cans of homemade canned hot salsa.
• In place of the canned refried beans, I used the ones I made from left over Crock Pot Brown Bean and Ham Soup. You can find the recipe here.
• In place of the frozen corn, I used some left over Cajun Corn Maque Choux (recipe coming soon).
• The cooked chicken was leftover from a Rotisserie chicken we had been eating on for a couple of days and needed finishing up.

Enjoy!

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Gluten Free Creamy Chicken Tortilla Soup

This Creamy soup is gluten and dairy free and comes together in under 10 minutes.

Course Main Course, Soup

Cuisine Mexican

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 10 minutes

Total Time 15 minutes

Servings 6

Author Amber Gaines

Ingredients

• 2 can tomatoes and chilis
• 2 cups chicken broth
• 2 cups refried beans (or 1-16oz can)
• 1/2 cup frozen corn
• 2 cups cooked chicken cubed
• Gluten Free tortilla chips (optional)

Instructions

1. Combine tomatoes and chili's, broth, beans and corn in a medium stock pot. Stir and bring to a boil. Cook on low for 5 mins.
   

2. Add the cubed chicken and cook until heated through.
   

3. Serve topped with Gluten Free tortilla chips, GF tortilla Strips. Other topping ideas: sour cream, sliced avocado, jalapenos, shredded cheese.
   

Recipe Notes

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