Chicken Taco Soup

This is one of my favorites, its easy, quick, cheap, and tasty. Plus you only have to dirty one pot and you can dress the meal up with other items (tortilla chips, salsa, sour cream, shredded cheese, cilantro, etc)

It is a great way to get a couple veggie servings in one meal and better for you than drinking a V8. :)

Here is my recipe (there are lots of versions of this soup, make it how you like it, I change it all the time):
2 boneless skinless chicken breasts, cubed
2-4 cups chicken broth (depends how much liquid to solid ratio you like)
1-2 bell peppers (one green, one red), chopped
1-2 poblano peppers, chopped
1-2 stalks of celery, chopped
1 medium onion, chopped
3-5 garlic cloves, minced
1 cup corn (frozen, fresh, or canned)
1 can diced tomatoes, with juice
1 can kidney beans
1 can black beans
If I use both cans of beans I only use one chicken breast, believe me this makes plenty, save your meat for another meal. :)

Cook chicken breast in skillet or large pot with EVOO and garlic. Cook on medium high for 5min. Add onion celery, and peppers. Saute, stirring, for about 5-10min. It might look something like this:

Add seasonings: black pepper, cumin, thyme, red pepper/cayenne, smoked paprika, 2-3Tbs your favorite BBQ sauce (trust me its good!)

Add corn, tomatoes with juice, beans, and chicken stock. Cover with lid. Turn heat down to low and let simmer this lets all the lovely flavors meld. And it just keeps getting better, we usually enjoy it the next day for lunch or dinner too. Like I said above, you can dress it up too. I just made this for Drew last week because I was out of town.

Its straight forward and low-maintenance enough that I made it as I was making dinner for us that night. Drew then had a few meals already prepared. He likes to eat it with some awesome HEB fresh tortillas.

If you have people over you can make this and dress it up with all those extras I mentioned above. ;)