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Why-Chicken-Crossed-The-Road Santa Fe-Tastic Tortilla Soup

Type: Chicken, Poultry
Courses: Soup
Serves: 4 people

Recipe Ingredients

  Vegetable or corn oil - for drizzling, plus
2 tablespoons 30mlVegetable or corn oil
3   Corn on the cob
  = (or 2 ears fresh-frozen cobs, defrosted)
1   Red bell pepper - split, seeded
1 lb 454g / 16ozChicken breast tenders
1 teaspoon 5mlPoultry seasoning
1 teaspoon 5mlCumin
  Salt - to taste
  Freshly-ground black pepper - to taste
1   To medium zucchini - small diced (small)
1   Yellow-skinned onion - chopped (medium)
3   Garlic cloves - chopped
1   Chipotle in adobo pepper - (to 2) - chopped
  = (medium to hot heat level, available in
  Small cans in Mexican and Spanish food
  Section of market)
1   Stewed tomatoes - (28 oz)
1   Tomato sauce - (8 oz)
3 cups 711mlChicken stock
  = (available in re-sealable paper
  Containers on soup aisle)
4 cups 250g / 8.8ozBlue corn tortilla chips - broken large pieces
1 cup 146g / 5.1ozShredded cheddar or pepper Jack cheese
1/2 cup 118mlSour cream
  Optional Garnishes
1/4   Red raw onion - chopped
2 tablespoons 30mlChopped cilantro or parsley leaves - - (to 3)
1   Ripe avocado - diced, dressed with
  Juice of 1/2 lemon

Recipe Instructions

Heat a grill pan to high and a soup pot to medium-high. Drizzle oil on corn and place on grill. Add red pepper to grill with corn. Char vegetables 10 minutes, total, turning occasionally. Remove to cool, 5 minutes. Remove charred skin from the pepper.

While vegetables cook, dice chicken. Add 2 tablespoons oil to hot soup pot. Add chicken to pot. Season with poultry seasoning, cumin, salt and pepper. Lightly brown chicken on each side. Add zucchini, onions and garlic and chipotle peppers. Cook vegetables with chicken 5 to 7 minutes to soften. Add tomatoes, tomato sauce and stock. Bring soup to a bubble, reduce heat to medium-low.

Scrape corn off cob and add to soup. Chop grilled red pepper and stir into soup. Add chips to soup in handfuls and fold in. Serve soup immediately with scatter of shredded cheese and a dollop of sour cream. Top with any or all of the suggested garnishes.

This recipe yields 4 servings.

Source:
30 MINUTE MEALS with Rachael Ray - (Show # TM-1D34) - from the TV FOOD NETWORK

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