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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
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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Katy ~
Gosh, this looks SOUP-ER good! I like Jen's note about how to reduce the quantity. We would love this one!
Parita
Soup looks extremely inviting!
Happy cook
Love this filling soup.
I havethis Minestrone soup in my place.
I make them in huge quantities and freeze them in freeze bags in portion, so i have a filling soup when ever myfamily wants.
You daughter can try that
teresa
i'm putting this soup in my meal plan, it looks wonderful!
Megan
I love coming home to the aroma of dinner cooked. This sounds fantastic. I've been looking for a few more crockpot dinners myself! I made turkey legs in the crockpot a few days ago and it was great. Just rub your legs with EVOO. It gave some spices to use but I just used Emeril's chicken spice. Throw in some fresh herbs (I used rosemary and sage) and cook on low for 10-12 hours. Or on high 5-6 hours. It was fall off the bone tender.
colehillkitchen
sounds delicious!! there's a lot to be said for easy and quick food – there isn't much better than coming home to a warm bowl of goodness after a long day!
Lynda
I'm always looking for more soup recipes, Barbara…this looks delish1 Bookmarked!
I love your blogs new look. 🙂
Memória
I don't think I can could come up with a make-ahead recipe at this moment, but I would like to comment on how comforting and great your soup looks. YUM!
Did you change your blog layout? Forgive me if I'm behind the times. I usually read your blog from the reader. It looks nice!
Cinnamon Girl aka Reeni♥
I bet this is incredibly delicious!! I love that it's made in the crock-pot. I bet the chicken turns out real tender.
Anncoo
I love this soup, especially spicy type. Thanks for sharing 🙂
April
Barbara, this looks wonderful!! This is going on my menu for this week!
Sasha
Yum. Oh my god. My mouth is watering : X
Palidor
Mmmm, the soup looks delicious! I can't think of any make-ahead recipes off the top of my head, but if I think of something later, I'll let you know.
Mamatkamal,Nassim,Anwar
I love this soup! I should give it a try one day, thanks Barbara for the recipe.
Marisa
Sorry Barbara…I meant for mine to come up as a link–so you'll have to cut and past that into the browser.
Marisa
This soup looks and sounds amazing! I agree on always wanting recipes that are easy–easy to make, reheat, and have lots of leftovers.
The first one that came to my mind was this one:
http://itsdinnertime2.blogspot.com/2007/10/what-to-do-with-leftover-roast.html
It makes oodles and is so yummy for many days after. It also freezes well (you could freeze it into portions). You can make tacos with it or also make quesadillas with the meat.
Jamie
Barbara,
I'm flagging this to make. I love making soup in my crockpot and I know my family would love this.
The Blonde Duck
I really like this soup. It's on my list!
HoneyB
I love that this is a crockpot recipe! What a great meal to come home to. Will have to try it!
Jenn
I actually ate this last night. It's definitely one of my favorites.
Thanks for asking for me, mom!
P.S. For those of you with smaller crockpots, like me, I only add half the chicken and take out a can of beans.