Santa Fe Chicken Vegetable Soup With 4 Cheese Quesadillas Recipes

CHICKEN SANTA FE SOUP - QUICK AND EASY

Steps:

• Cut chicken breasts into 1" pieces.
• In heavy skillet, saute chicken and onion in olive oil until onionis crisp-tender.
• Add remaining ingredients, stir to blend, and simmer for 10 to 15 minutes.
• Directions for freezing and thawing:.
• Cool soup in refrigerator or ice water bath.
• Pour soup into rigid containers; seal, label, and freeze.
• To thaw and reheat, thaw soup overnight in refrigerator, then reheat in heavy saucepan until bubbly.
• To reheat from frozen, place frozen soup in top of double boiler; heat over simmering water, stirring occasionally, until soup is hot.
• Transfer to saucepan and heat until bubbly.

SANTA FE-TASTIC CHICKEN TORTILLA SOUP

Steps:

• Heat a grill pan to high and a soup pot to medium high.
• Drizzle oil on corn and place on grill. Add red pepper to grill with corn. Char vegetables 10 minutes, total, turning occasionally. Remove to cool, 5 minutes.
• Remove charred skin from the pepper.
• While vegetables cook, dice chicken. Add 2 tablespoons oil to hot soup pot. Add chicken to pot. Season with poultry seasoning, cumin, salt and pepper. Lightly brown chicken on each side. Add zucchini, onions and garlic and chipotle peppers. Cook vegetables with chicken 5 to 7 minutes to soften. Add tomatoes, tomato sauce and stock.
• Bring soup to a bubble, reduce heat to medium low.
• Scrape corn off cob and add to soup.
• Chop grilled red pepper and stir into soup.
• Can simmer for about an hour or serve right away. This just gets better with time.
• Add chips to soup in handfuls and stir.
• Serve soup immediately with scatter of shredded cheese and a dollop of sour cream.
• Top with any or all of the suggested garnishes. Best with big chunks of avacado.