This Spicy Chicken Soup is a family favorite. Loaded with chicken, beans, and spices, it’s perfect for busy days—you can dump all the ingredients in your crockpot in the morning and come home to a delicious dinner after work.
Update: This Spicy Chicken Soup was one of the first recipes I posted when I started my blog, and it’s still a family favorite a decade later. It was high time to make it again with some new photos and share it with new readers who may have missed it the first time around.
I love this meal because it is so easy to customize to your tastes and what you have on hand—change the amount of corn, spice things up by using tomatoes with diced green chilies, sub out black beans for pinto. If you’re using a smaller crock pot, use half the chicken.
I also love that this recipe makes a huge pot of soup and freezes very well. I like to freeze it in ziplock bags in 1 cup individual serving portions.
(Because I love it so much, I’ve also created an Instant Pot Spicy Chicken Soup recipe for my pressure cooking blog, Pressure Cooking Today. It’s great for those days you forget to start the soup in the morning!)
Spicy Chicken Soup
Ingredients
- 1 jar 16 ounce mild chunky salsa
- 2 cans 14.5 ounces each peeled and diced tomatoes
- 2 cans 14.5 ounces each chicken broth
- 8 skinless boneless chicken breast halves (can be added frozen)
- 2 cans 16 ounces each black beans, drained
- 1 onion chopped, or 2 tablespoons dehydrated minced onion
- 3 cloves garlic chopped, or 1 teaspoon dried minced garlic
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 tablespoon onion powder
- 1 tablespoon chili powder
- 2 tablespoons dried parsley
- 1 bag 15 ounce frozen corn
Instructions
- Pour salsa, tomatoes, and broth in a large crockpot. Add chicken breasts*, black beans*, chopped onion, minced garlic, olive oil, salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, chili powder, add parsley, and cook on low for 6 to 8 hours.
- About 20 minutes before serving, remove chicken breasts from soup and dice or shred.
- About 5 to 10 minutes before serving, add the frozen corn and stir. Serve hot topped with shredded cheese, sour cream, avocados, and tortilla strips—and any other favorite toppings.
Notes
The cold winter months are the perfect time for a steaming hot bowl of soup. This is my family’s favorite soup. My married daughter loves making it in the morning before heading out to work and coming home to the delicious spicy aroma. And my boys love it because it is hearty and loaded with lots of tender chicken.
My daughter asked me for more great recipes like this that she can make in the morning and come home to a healthy homemade meal all ready to eat, with lots of leftovers she can take with her for lunch.
Do you have a terrific, easy, make-ahead recipe that you’d like to share? Please leave me a comment with a link to your favorite recipe. If you’ll share them with me, I’ll share them with her, then I’ll blog about some of my new favorites!
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Barbara
This is one of my family very favorite soups. We have it on a regular basis even in the summer.
Kat
I came over via Joyce @ Flour Power. The soup looks and sounds delish so I have copied the recipe to try soon.
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Mama Peck
Thanks for sharing this recipe- it looks great! This Spicy Red and Black Bean Soup is a family favorite.. http://tiny.cc/Ui43y. If the link doesn't work, just try googling the title, it will take you right to it. Enjoy!
Iris
This looks delicious and so healthy! I would love to have a crockpot someday so I can make meals in the morning and come home to them cooked at night.
Tracy @ Sugarcrafter
I made this tonight for company, and we all absolutely loved it! We sprinkled a little cheddar cheese and some crushed tortilla chips on top. I will definitely be making this again!!
Olive
that soup looks delicious..you had me at spicy 😉
Carrie
I love that fall is here and soup season is back! My pepper bellied boys would love this spicy chicken soup!
Amber
I have had this a couple of times when Jenn has made it and I love it! And I love you blog!
Rosa's Yummy Yums
What a delicious looking soup! Very comforting and tasty!
Cheers,
Rosa
the ungourmet
Crock pots do make things so much easier! This looks so terrific! I'll have to think of a recipe for you. ;0)
Pam
I am so glad it's soup season! This looks hearty and delicious.
Nutmeg Nanny
Gotta love soup weather!
Judy
This looks delicious,Barbara, I can see why it's a family fave. I don't use my crockpot near enough, so unfortunately I don't have any recipes to share that would be appropriate for your daughter, but I can't wait to see what you post. Maybe I can pick something up.
Jennie
It's soup season! Yay!! This sounds wonderful! I love spicy soups! Bookmarking this one for sure!
Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella
That soup looks wonderful and I'm a big fan of spicy food! Some of those highly rated recipes are great aren't they! 🙂
petite nyonya
Wow, I absolutely love soups like this! Tasty, with lots of ingredients and spicy! When it rains outside, having soups like this is just perfect!! I will definitely try this one day. Thanks for posting the recipe again!
Mags
Ohhh.. I'm such a soup person. Hubby too. This looks like a good one to try.
I always make my pot roast in the crockpot. Before leaving for work, drop the roast in the crockpot, season with an envelope of Lipton Onion Soup mix. Dump a can of beef broth over all. Set on low and it's pull apart tender when you get home. The leftovers and remaining broth make for some great beef and noodles the next day too!
Michelle
Yum! My son wants me to make this!
Bunny
I love this soup, I love my crock pot! Just imagine this with some crusty bread!!
Jackie at PhamFatale.com
That's what I call the ultimate comfort food. It's not quite soup weather for me yet (we're experiencing the heatwave in California) but I'm storing this one up for the later in the Fall.