Best Instant Pot Chicken Tortilla Soup
Do you want the best Instant Pot Chicken Tortilla soup recipe? I have tried a few and this recipe is the one that has all the flavor and spicy, delicious goodness you want in a chicken Tortilla soup. It is so good you don’t even need the tortillas!
This turned out to be the Best Instant Pot chicken Tortilla soup! My husband loves a good chicken tortilla soup, and I was determined to find one that had the depth of flavor that makes it stand apart from all the rest. I tested several recipes but I had to modify them to get the flavor we were looking for.
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Is it the easiest? No, but it is the tastiest, and what is better…it uses up some leftovers and freezes well!
You start with the leftovers of a roasted or rotisserie chicken. Yep, make a roasted chicken one night and use the leftovers for this. I will share a recipe soon on how I roast a chicken on the Weber, but I also use up the leftovers of a store-bought rotisserie chicken. Usually, Costco rotisserie chicken.
You can use chicken breast or thighs but the real flavor comes from stewing the chicken with the bones.
Note: when using a leftover roast chicken the amount of actual chicken will vary. There is no set amount, it would taste good with just the broth. To guesstimate I would say a couple of chicken breasts or three thighs would be more than enough. And even that is hard to nail down. Have you seen the size of some of those chicken breasts these days? Monsters.
The moral of this story is, add chicken to your taste. Like more chicken in your soup? Go for it. Don’t have that much? It will still work just fine.
This is a link to the actual Instant Pot that I own. I love it and it is the perfect size for the two of us.
If you make this, please let me know what you think. We have eaten so much of this soup this winter, you would think we would be sick of it, and yet we are not. It is just that good.
Happy Soup Making!
Hi, I’m Pamela
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