Best Cheesy Chicken Soup Recipes

CHEESY CHICKEN TORTILLA SOUP

Steps:

• In a large Dutch oven over medium heat, cook the onion, carrot and celery in the 2 tablespoons olive oil, stirring occasionally, for 3 to 5 minutes, or until soft.
• Add the garlic, chile powder, oregano, cumin and black pepper. Stir for 3 to 4 minutes, being careful not to burn the dry ingredients. Add more oil if needed.
• Add the chicken stock and salt, bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to a low simmer and cook for about 5 minutes.
• Toast the 2 tortillas over a burner flame until slightly charred. Tear into pieces and place in a blender jar, then ladle in about 1 1/2 cups (355 ml) of the hot soup from the pot. Carefully blend until smooth and return to the soup pot. (See Cook's Note.)
• Add the roasted chicken to the soup and let simmer for 5 more minutes.
• Just before serving, add the lime juice and cilantro. Taste and adjust the seasoning. Serve topped with lots of chopped avocado, shredded cheese, fried tortilla strips and lime wedges.

CHEESY CHICKEN ENCHILADA SOUP

Steps:

• Heat oil in a soup pot over medium to medium-high heat. Add onion and saute until tender and beginning to get some color, about 8 minutes. Add garlic and saute until fragrant, about 1 minute.
• Stir in masa harina and cook for 1 minute. Add chicken stock and stir until well blended. Add chicken, black beans, diced tomatoes with juice, enchilada sauce, chile peppers, chipotle in adobo sauce, 1 teaspoon cumin, and 1 teaspoon garlic powder. Stir until well blended and bring to a simmer. Reduce heat and simmer until heated through, about 15 minutes.
• Add Mexican cheddar, one handful at a time. As it melts into the soup, add a little more until all has been added and is incorporated. Adjust salt and other seasonings as needed.

CHEESY CHICKEN AND POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• Heat bacon grease in a stockpot over medium-high heat. Saute onion in hot grease until soft, about 4 minutes.
• Stir potato chunks with the onion. Pour chicken broth and water over the potato mixture. Bring the liquid to a boil and cook until the potatoes are tender but not mushy, about 15 minutes.
• Melt butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Stir flour into the butter and cook, stirring constantly, until completely moistened, about 1 minute. Pour milk into the saucepan while continuing to stir; cook until thickened, about 3 minutes more. Sprinkle cheese over the milk mixture; cook and stir until the cheese is melted smoothly into the mixture, 2 to 3 minutes more.
• Stir the cheese mixture and cooked chicken into the liquid in the stockpot; cook just until the chicken is heated through, about 4 minutes.

CHEESY CHICKEN TORTILLA SOUP IN THE SLOW COOKER

Steps:

• Rub chicken with salt, then follow with cumin, chili powder, and pepper.
• Heat oil in a skillet over medium-high heat. Cook chicken in the hot skillet until no longer pink in the center and the juices run clear, about 3 minutes per side. Remove from the heat and cut into chunks.
• Combine chicken broth, queso, diced tomatoes and chiles, pepper and onion blend, tortilla chips, black beans, jalapeno peppers, and lime juice in a slow cooker. Add chicken. Season soup with cayenne, and add more salt, cumin, chili powder, garlic powder, and pepper to taste. Mix well.
• Cook on Low for 8 hours or High for 5 hours. Top with crushed tortillas.

SLOW COOKER CHEESY CHICKEN ENCHILADA SOUP

Steps:

• Place chicken in the bottom of a slow cooker. Add chili beans, black beans, tomatoes and green chiles, enchilada sauce, chicken broth, corn, chili powder, seasoning salt, paprika, cumin, and pepper.
• Cover and cook until chicken can easily be shredded with a fork, on Low for 5 to 8 hours or on High for 3 to 5 hours.
• Cube the cream cheese (needs to be soft) and place in the slow cooker. Let sit for a few minutes and then whisk to break up any chunks. Cook on High until cream cheese melts. Enjoy!
• Place cubes of cream cheese into the slow cooker. Let sit for a few minutes, then whisk to break up any chunks. Cook on High until cream cheese melts, 15 to 30 minutes.

SLOW-COOKER CHEESY CHICKEN AND BACON SOUP

Steps:

• Spray 5-quart slow cooker with cooking spray. In 10-inch skillet, cook bacon over medium heat until crispy. With slotted spoon, transfer bacon to paper towel-lined plate; cover and refrigerate.
• Meanwhile, in medium bowl, mix flour, Montreal chicken seasoning and salt. Add chicken, and toss to coat; set aside.
• Increase heat to medium-high. Add chicken to skillet, and cook 4 to 5 minutes or until browned on first side. Turn chicken, and cook 1 to 2 minutes longer or until beginning to brown. Meanwhile, mix broth, wild rice, green onion whites, celery and carrot in slow cooker. Refrigerate green onion greens.
• Add chicken and pan drippings to rice mixture in slow cooker. Cover and cook on Low heat setting 7 to 8 hours. Chop chicken, and return to cooker; stir in 3 cups of the cheese, replace cover and heat 10 to 15 minutes or until cheese is almost melted. Stir in whipping cream. Divide soup among 8 bowls. Top with remaining 1 cup cheese, reserved bacon and green onion greens.

CHEESY CHICKEN ENCHILADA SOUP (CHILI'S)

Steps:

• 1. In large pot, place oil, chicken base, onion and spices.
• 2. Sauté until onions are soft and clear, about 5 minutes.
• 3. In another container, combine Masa Harina with 1 quart water.
• 4. Stir until all lumps dissolve.
• 5. Add to sautéed onions and bring to boil.
• 6. Once mixture starts to bubble, continue cooking 2-3 minutes, stirring constantly. This will eliminate any raw taste from Masa Harina.
• 7. Add remaining 3 quarts water to pot.
• 8. Add tomatoes and enchilada sauce; let mixture return to boil stirring occasionally.
• 9. Add cheese to soup.
• 10. Cook stirring occasionally, until cheese melts.
• 11. Add chicken; heat through and serve. Garnish with shredded cheddar cheese, crumbled tortilla chips, and pico de gallo.

CHEESY CHICKEN CORN SOUP

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, combine the broth, tomatoes, chicken, corn, 1 cup water, onion and pepper. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 5 minutes or until the corn is tender. , Combine the flour and remaining water until smooth; stir into the soup. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Reduce heat to low; stir in the cheese until melted.

CHEESY CHICKEN & WILD RICE SOUP

Steps:

• Start by cooking chicken, onions, & mushrooms in pot until chicken is cooked through and onions and mushrooms are soft.
• Next add crubled bacon and wild rice (I like to use 2 cans of wild rice but you can buy the boxed kind too and prepare it ahead of time)
• Add both cans of cream of potato soup, milk, and Velveeta. Stir all ingredients until mixed well.
• Heat on medium until cheese is melted and everything is blended.
• Season to taste ( I like to just add pepper since the Velveeta makes it a little salty already)
• Turn to low and let simmer for a while, stirring frequently.

THE ACTUAL APPLEBEE'S CHEESY CHICKEN TORTILLA SOUP

Steps:

• Sauté oil, garlic and onions in large pan or Dutch oven until soft.
• Add numbers 4 through 13. Bring to low boil, then reduce heat and simmer 20 minutes.
• Cut tortillas into 1/4-inch strips and fry in oil or spray with oil and bake at 400 degrees F (while soup is cooking). Sprinkle with salt if desired.
• Thoroughly mix flour and water, then whisk into soup. Bring to a low boil, then simmer 5 minutes.
• Add chicken and simmer 5 minutes.
• Stir in sour cream and cheese (more or less of each, depending on taste). Ensure 165 degrees F serving temperature.
• After serving soup, pile tortilla strips into a "haystack" shape on top of the soup.
• Optional: garnish with freshly chopped cilantro.

CHEESY CHICKEN SOUP

Steps:

• Lightly oil (use olive oil) the bottom of a large saucepan.
• Cook bacon over medium heat, in the pan, until crisp.
• Remove bacon from pan.
• Set aside.
• Add chicken, onion, bell pepper, and garlic to bacon fat in pan; sauté 5 minutes.
• Add broth and potatoes; bring to boil.
• Cover, reduce heat, and simmer 20 minutes or until potatoes are tender.
• Add corn; stir well.
• Place flour in a bowl.
• Gradually add milk, stirring with a whisk until blended; add to soup.
• Cook over medium heat 15 minutes or until thick, stirring frequently.
• Stir in cheese, salt, pepper and cayenne.
• Crumble bacon and sprinkle over top.

EXTRA CHEESY CHICKEN ENCHILADA SOUP

Steps:

• Turn on a multi-functional pressure cooker (such as Instant Pot®), add oil, select Saute function. When oil is hot, add onion and cook until soft and translucent, about 5 minutes. Add chicken; cook and stir until browned, about 5 minutes. Add beans, diced tomatoes and green chiles, corn, and chicken broth.
• Beat enchilada sauce and cream cheese in a bowl until smooth. Pour into the Instant Pot® but do not stir. Hit Cancel.
• Close and lock the lid. Select high pressure according to manufacturer's instructions; set timer for 6 minutes. Allow 10 to 15 minutes for pressure to build.
• Release pressure using the natural-release method according to manufacturer's instructions, 10 minutes. Release remaining pressure carefully using the quick-release method, about 5 minutes. Unlock and remove the lid.
• Ladle soup into bowls and top with Monterey Jack cheese.

CHEESY CHICKEN TORTILLA SOUP

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large pot over medium heat. Add onion and saute until soft, about 5 minutes. Stir in garlic and cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds.
• Stir in chicken broth, chili beans, black beans, corn, diced tomatoes with chiles, and enchilada sauce. Add chili powder, seasoned salt, paprika, cumin, and pepper; stir to combine. Increase heat to high and bring to a boil.
• Once the soup is boiling, stir in cream cheese. Reduce heat and stir in Cheddar cheese until melted. Stir in chicken. Serve topped with tortilla chips, sour cream, and cilantro.

CREAMY CHEESY CHICKEN VEGETABLE SOUP

Steps:

• Mix soups and spices together in a large bowl.
• Pour over chicken chunks in crock pot.
• Pour in vegetables.
• Cook on low for about 8 hours.
• You may need to stir it occasionally to prevent a skin.

CHEESY CHICKEN TACO BREADSTICK DIPPERS WITH SOUP

Steps:

• Gather ingredients and heat oven to 350°F. Line large cookie sheet with cooking parchment paper.
• In medium bowl, mix chicken, chiles and 1 teaspoon of the taco seasoning mix.
• Unroll 1 can dough. Press into rectangle filling most of the space on cookie sheet. Spread chicken mixture evenly on dough. Top evenly with cheese.
• Unroll second can of dough. Place on top, pressing edges firmly to seal.
• Sprinkle with remaining 1/2 teaspoon taco seasoning mix. Using pizza cutter, cut into 1-inch "breadstick" strips.
• Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until cooked through. Remove from cookie sheet; cool 5 minutes before separating into breadsticks.
• Cook soup as directed on cans. Serve soup with breadsticks.

CHEESY CHICKEN BROCCOLI SOUP

Steps:

• Put water, bullion, broccoli, chicken (whole, not cut up), salt, and pepper in large stock pot. Bring to a boil. Turn down to medium and simmer 45 minutes.
• Take out chicken breast set aside to cool slightly.
• Melt butter and stir in four. Slowly stir mixture into soup and cook until the soup thickens.
• Cut up chicken and add back to pot.
• Add cream and cheese and stir until combined and cheese melts.

CHEESY CHICKEN TORTILLA SOUP

Steps:

• Saute onion, peppers and garlic in olive oil until tender.
• Add half of chicken broth, all of the beans, corn, chilies and chicken. Bring to a simmer. Add taco seasoning.
• A cheese soup and mix it in well. If it is too thick, add a bit more chicken broth.
• Add the brown rice last so it doesn't get too soggy in the soup.
• Serve it up and top with some shredded cheese, a dollop of sour cream and some crushed up tortilla chips. Yum.

CHEESY HASHBROWN CASSEROLE (WITHOUT CREAM OF CHICKEN SOUP) - FREEZER MEAL - SIDE DISH RECIPE - (4.5/5)

Steps:

• Melt the butter in a large pot over medium heat. Add the onion and cook until the onion is softened and translucent, about 5-6 minutes. Stir in the flour and cook, stirring constantly, for about a minute. Combine the chicken broth and milk in a liquid measure and slowly whisk in the mixture. Add the salt, pepper and thyme. Stir to combine. Bring the mixture to a boil and then reduce the heat to medium-low and simmer, stirring frequently, until the mixture is slightly thickened, about 5 minutes. Take the pot off the heat and stir in the cheese until smooth. Mix in the hash browns, lifting and folding the mixture until well combined. Finally, stir in the sour cream. In a medium bowl, toss the lightly crushed cornflakes with the butter until evenly combined. Scoop out the potato mixture into a 9X13-inch baking dish and top with the buttered cornflakes. (*you may place in zip lock bag and freeze for later. Thaw for 24 hours when ready to cook) Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes, until hot and bubbly around the edges.

EASY CHEESY CHICKEN ENCHILADA SOUP

Steps:

• Mix condensed soup, corn, black beans, enchilada sauce, chicken, milk, and Cheddar cheese together in a 3-quart saucepan. Cook over medium-low heat, stirring occasionally, until heated through and cheese is melted, about 10 minutes.
• Ladle into bowls and top individual servings with tortilla chips.

CHEESY CHICKEN TORTILLA SOUP

Steps:

• Cut tortillas into 1/4 inch strips. Deep fry or spray with nonstick cooking spray and bake until crisp. Set aside.
• Saute oil, garlic and onion in large pan or Dutch oven until soft.
• Add chicken stock or broth, green pepper, tomato puree, jalapeno, salt, pepper, sugar, chili powder, Worcestershire sauce and hot sauce. Bring to low boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 20 minutes.
• Thoroughly mix flour and water, then whisk into soup. Bring to a low boil, then continue simmering for 5 minutes.
• Stir in sour cream and cheese (more or less, depending on taste). Heat to minimum 165F before serving.
• Ladle soup into serving bowls, pile tortilla strips into a "haystack" shape on top of the soup. Garnish with freshly chopped cilantro.