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    Home » Recipes » Soup

    Spicy Chicken Soup

    Published by Melissa on February 18, 2018 | Updated June 10, 2022 | 44 Comments

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    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!)

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    Spicy Chicken Soup

    Prep Time10 mins
    Cook Time6 hrs
    Additional Time10 mins
    Total Time6 hrs 20 mins
    Course: Soup
    Keyword: Chicken, food, recipe
    Author: Barbara Schieving
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    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

    * This soup makes a big batch. For those of you with smaller crockpots, only add half the chicken and take out a can of beans.

    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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    1. Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella

      February 25, 2018 at 7:50 pm

      I’m convinced that we all need a handful of recipes just like this for those days when it is a little bit crazy! Thanks mum 😀 xxx

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    2. Carol

      February 19, 2018 at 6:10 am

      It’s so nice to have a recipe that cooks low and slow or that you can speed up in the pressure cooker. This is one of the first soups I made out of your pressure cooker cookbook and we absolutely loved it.

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    3. AnnaCole

      December 23, 2014 at 2:41 pm

      Very, very good – the entire family liked it (even the picky 10 year old!). I cut my chicken into bite sized pieces before adding it to the crockpot, used a can of rotel insted of salsa since that’s what I had. I ended up having to drain off a bunch of the juices before adding the cream cheese and added about 1 tablespoon of taco seasoning. I ended up cooking it about 3 1/2 hours on high since I started with thawed chicken. We served it over yellow rice and sprinkled shredded jack cheese on top. We will definately make it again! Thanks.

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      • Barbara Schieving

        December 23, 2014 at 7:33 pm

        Thanks for sharing your changes. So glad you enjoyed it!

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