You know the tune!
Raindrops on windows…
and bright Christmas lii-ights.
Prizes from contests…
and soup in a cro-ock…pot. 
Yes my friends, nothing quite tops the list of my favorite things like a big, warm bowl of Chicken Tortilla Crock Pot Soup!
Chicken Tortilla Crock Pot Soup
Adapted from Allrecipes.com
Serves 6
Ingredients:
1 14.5oz can petite diced tomatoes
1-14.5oz chicken broth
1-10oz can red enchilada sauce
2 cups water
1 can black beans, drained and rinsed
1-4oz can diced green chilies
1/2 medium onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 teaspoon cumin
1 teaspoon chili powder
1/2 teaspoon dried cilantro
1/4 teaspoon hot pepper flakes
1 bay leaf
Salt & pepper
1-10oz package frozen corn
2 small chicken breasts, cooked & shredded
Tortilla chips & shredded cheese
Directions:
1. Place ingredients from tomatoes through frozen corn in a large crock pot and cook on low for 6-8 hours. Add shredded chicken for last 30 minutes of cooking.
2. Crumble several tortilla chips in the bottom of a bowl. Top with soup, more crumbled tortilla chips and cheese. Enjoy!
It doesn’t get much easier, tastier and soul warming than this! You literally drop everything into the crock pot, come back 7.5 hours later and are completely ready to eat!
The ingredient list for this soup may look long, but take a closer look. I bet you have most – if not ALL – of these ingredients in your kitchen at this very moment.
Ben recommended that we get these Santitas Tortilla Chips for thickening up and topping the soup. They are very “authentic” tasting, have minimal ingredients, no preservatives and are trans fat free – wheee!
Like the chips, this soup is very “authentic” tasting. You can taste the fact that it’s been simmering away all day and is perfectly smokey, savory and satisfying. It even got a “best chicken tortilla soup you’ve ever made” award from Ben!
Another one of my favorite things…Chips & Salsa. Oh yes…
It has to be locally made, Graddy’s All-Natural Salsa, though. It’s the only store-bought salsa that is allowed to enter my mouth via chip. Everything else is not worthy I’m telling you!
Ben and his family introduced me to this salsa and I just love how fresh and chunky it is. Not the bottled, commercial-salsa chunky though. These are big, recognizable chunks of fresh tomato, cilantro and jalapeno!
In the spirit of “back on track week, ” I portioned out a few tortilla chips and had them for “dessert.” 
The rest of my night, unfortunately, will involve a few of my non-favorite things such as…
Shooing away the nirds that are trying to make a nest on my front porch. Can you spot them? There’s two!!
Paying some bills.
And laundry!
You know…stuff that makes the world go ’round.
The night is not a complete wash though. Gossip Girl is on! The Parents Television Council had good reason to be in a tizzy last week – it was scandalacious!
Good night!
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What’s one of your favorite things?
OMG. That soup will be what I cook this weekend for a cache of weekday meals. Yay! I might forgo the corn though. Not a big fan.
One of the things I miss MOST about living in the midwest is local Mexican food available in the supermarket. Those chips ARE the best! We used to eat them all the time with Margarita brand salsa in Kansas City.
One of my favorite things = little Chooey
I love falling asleep to thunderstorms, finding new food products, and folding laundry!
Santitas chips are THE best store bought chips!! And I’m a tortilla chip connoisseur
that soup looks amazing, as soon as I get a new crock pot I’m trying it!
That soup looks so warm and comforting! Christmas lights are high on my list of favorite things.
I love my crockpot! I had chili today and it was nice and warm
One of my random favorite things is watching snow out the window. I don’t like shoveling but I like watching it fall.
Girl, this crock pot of yours is getting more use than mine ever has! Good for you on utilizing such a fabulous appliance.
OMG, what happened on Gossip Girl? I love a good scandle!!!
I love tortilla soup! I’ve never seen it in a crockpot before!
Yours looks delicious!
Yayyy!!! You got your prize pack
Aren’t the utensils great?
One of my favorite things is my puppy and her puppy paws. They are so soft and so small!
Cute! I really want a crock-pot. One of my favorite things is going outside during a new snowfall
You make the most delicious-looking soups!
One of my favorite things: kisses and “I love you”‘s from my children.
One of my favorite things – diet cherry coke with ice and a straw!
YUM! I made tortilla soup tonight too.
that soup looks out of this world! How you portioned out those chips is beyond me, cause i know once i start i can’t stop!
That bowl of tortilla soup looks amazing. I am always looking for a good bowl of soup to cook up for the winter. Living in Colorado, it is freezing
-Courtney
Some of my Favorite things: Candy Cane Lane tea by Celestial Seasonings! Mmmmm. And hot yoga on a cold day!
Thank for the soup recipe!
I am making it for sure this weekend or at least the weekend after Thanksgiving.
I LOVE “Chicken Tortilla Soup” but the current recipe I have is just too time consuming, yours is perfect…….thank you! =)
My favorite tortilla chips are the multigrain ones from Tostitos – have you tried? Great texture and flavor!
Your crockpot recipes always look so good…..if only I owned a crockpot!:)
Just made this soup. It is AMAZING! Thank you for sharing!!!
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I made this last night and it was delicious! I didn’t plan ahead enough to do it in the crockpot, so I just made it stove top. Thanks for the inspiration!
I know this is late, but I added a few (5) diced-up corn tortillas to this soup along with the other ingredients at the beginning and it had that “enchilada” aroma and taste as they cooked down. Thanks for the recipe!
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Hey Kristin, thanks for giving me the link to your tortilla soup recipe! I’ll definitely try it. Yummy! And a few of my favorite things are music, my kitty cat, my blog, and trying new recipes!
Thanks again
Em