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Mexican Style Chicken-Lime Soup

For non low carbers, soup can be topped with tortilla chips or tortilla strips.

Courses: Soup
Serves: 4 people

Recipe Ingredients

6 cups 1422mlChicken stock
2   Boneless skinless chicken breasts - cut thin slices
1 tablespoon 15mlOlive oil
8   Garlic cloves - (to 10) - minced
1   Onion - thinly sliced (small)
2   Roma tomatoes - peeled, seeded, (medium)
  And diced
1/3 cup 5.3g / 0.2ozChopped cilantro
1   Serrano or jalapeño pepper - (to 4) - seeded, sliced thin
  = (depending on how hot you like it)
1/3 cup 78mlFresh lime juice
  Salt - to taste
  Freshly-ground black pepper - to taste

Recipe Instructions

Heat oil in a large saucepan. Add onion, garlic and hot peppers and cook for about 5 minutes or until lightly browned. Stir in stock and remaining ingredients, except cilantro. Simmer soup until chicken is cooked, about 5 to 7 minutes. Stir in cilantro and adjust seasonings. Ladle soup into bowls.

This recipe yields 4 to 6 servings; n/a carb grams per serving.

Source:
Low Carb Diet Recipes at http://www.dietlowcarb.com

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