Tortilla Soup

Tortilla Soup: Before

Tortilla Soup: After

 

Tortilla soup was one of the first things I made in the Vitamix. I tried it during the product demonstration, and I wanted to see if it was just as easy to make as it seemed in the store. It was!

I think it's crazy the way you just throw whole foods in the blender along with some broth, and in a few minutes you have HOT soup!

Below is the recipe can be found on the website and in the Vitamix Whole Foods cook book.

Here's the recipe:

Ingredients

3 cups (720 ml) low sodium chicken, beef, or vegetable stock

1 Roma tomato, halved

1 carrot, halved

1 rib celery, halved

1 thin slice of onion, peeled

1 garlic clove, peeled

1 thin slice of yellow squash

1 thin slice of red bell pepper

1 thin slice of cabbage

1 mushroom

1 teaspoon taco seasoning (I used chili powder and Fiesta Lime Mrs. Dash instead)

Dash cumin

Salt and pepper, to taste  

OPTIONAL INGREDIENTS: 1/2 cup (70 g) cooked chicken, breast meat; 1/2 fresh jalapeno; 1/4 cup pitted olives; 1/4 cup (50 g) canned corn, unsalted; 2 ounces (60 g) tortilla chips  

I also added about a ¼ cup of black beans and a whole jalapeno.

(The bold optional ingredients are the ones I chose to use.)

1. Place all soup base ingredients into the Vitamix container in order listed and secure lid.
2. Select Variable 1.
3. Turn machine on and quickly increase speed to Variable 10, then to High.
4. Blend for 5-6 minutes or until steam escapes from the vented lid.
5. If adding optional ingredients, reduce speed to Variable 2. Remove the lid plug.
6. Drop in chicken, jalapenos, olives, corn and chips. Blend for an additional 10 seconds.

TIPS:

More jalapeno seeds make the soup spicier.

Microwave the soup stock if you want to spend less time blending.

I added about an ounce of cheese to the soup. Delicious!
Don't add too much cheese if you like spicier soup. 

Toast a corn tortilla instead of using tortilla chips. 

Don't worry too much about exact measurements for ingredients.

 I like to add more than ½ cup of chicken. Just don't get too crazy, or the soup will get too thick.