This black bean tortilla soup is so easy because the blender does most of the work!
Per usual, I was busy in my kitchen per usual this weekend. Fun fact – I love soup. Like a lot. In fact I haven’t even categorized all the soup recipes on my blog yet, but last count – I have 130 soup recipes. So crazy. You can browse them here.
While going through my pantry/fridge/freezer challenge and trying to use up what I have, and as soon as I wrote everything down, the first thing that jumped out at me was “tortilla soup!” Except I had like 6 cans of black beans, so decided to make the base of this soup with black beans to thicken it up.
Black Bean Tortilla Soup
Show of hands how many of you are at the grocery store and think "do I have black beans at home?" Only to buy more and realize you have six cans already?! This black bean tortilla soup was created to use up all the black beans I had.
Ingredients
- 8 cups chicken broth
- 2 cans black beans, rinsed and drained
- 1 can fat free refried beans
- 1 15 ounce can diced tomatoes
- 1 chipotle pepper (or more if you like it spicy!)
- 1 can corn, drained
- 4 corn tortillas, chopped
- 1 package taco seasoning
- 2 cups cooked chicken breast, shredded
Instructions
- Put the chicken broth, black beans, refried beans, diced tomatoes and chipotle pepper in a blender, puree the soup. You can use a stick blender too. Add to stock pot. Stir in the corn, tortillas, taco seasoning and chicken and simmer for 20 minutes. That's it!
Notes
If you are on WW, click this link to see what the WW points would be on your plan.
And if you were my neighbor, I would have packed up the rest of this soup and given it to you, like I did my neighbors Brett and Amy š
This soup is so delicious, easy and great for meal prep. I saved two servings for myself before giving the rest away. It will be perfect for lunch today in anticipation of a snow storm. Where we can get a dusting or up to 12 inches. Gah.
Happy Tuesday friends – make it a great day!
It is so good and so easy to make.
It will become a staple at my house.
Thank you
Yeah! Thank you Claire! š
I just made this. So good! When I entered the ingredients in the WW recipe builder I got 3 points for 2 cups on blue instead of 1 point.
Hi! I usually enter the recipe in the WW builder for the exact products I use, but sorry if I was off. Glad you liked it though!
Just made this for lunch and it is SO GOOD! It made a lot more than four 2 cup servings, but I am not mad about it!! Have your pizza dough resting in the microwave today, too! Excited to try it out for dinner tonight!
Yes! So excited Jenn!
I can’t wait to make this!
Yeah!
Do you think using pinto and black beans will change the flavor much? I have several cans of pinto for some reason.
Pinto beans would be awesome!
That picture with your mom is hilarious ššš
It was the best $20 bucks I ever spent!
Can you start including calorie count like you used to do?? Thank you!
I am working on an app that will help me convert to calories, etc. Stay tuned! š