Slow Cooker Mexican Chicken Soup
This Creamy Mexican Chicken Soup is so relishing and loaded with Mexican flavors. Set on the slow cooker and return home to a hearty, comforting soup on cold winter nights. This soup is also low-carb and Keto friendly. I have also included instructions for Instant Pot.
I am so happy with how this Mexican Chicken Soup has turned out. It is low in carbs and Keto. Roasted tomatoes and Chipotle Chilli powder add a hint of smokiness to it.
With minimal chopping, this Chicken Soup is perfect on busy days when you return home and want dinner ready.
For more fulfilling soup recipes, you can check out my Healthy Spinach Soup Recipe, Tomato White Beans Soup, Creamy Chicken Tortellini Soup, and Creamy Pumpkin Soup.
It differs from other Mexican Chicken Soups, but the flavors are spot on. It’s creamy with some tang from the tomatoes, and the chicken is so juicy and tender.
So until you try it, you will never understand why I am raving so much about this soup.
Are you a fan of Mexican flavors? You can try my new recipe Homemade Chicken Tacos with a filling of succulent chicken, Mexican Fajita Stuffed Chicken Breast, or Mexican Egg Muffin.
Ingredients For Mexican Chicken Soup
This Mexican soup is rich and creamy. Boneless chicken breast is simmered with onion, garlic, herbs, roasted cumin powder, and chipotle chili powder in a crockpot. Because of slow cooking, the chicken breast is juicy and absorbs all the flavors.
You can also use boneless chicken thighs instead of breasts.
The spice blend, fire-roasted tomato, and chipotle chili powder give this soup the real flavor. Soups made from scratch are always healthier with better taste.
To make it rich and creamy, there is ‘Half and half,’ cream cheese, and lots of cheddar cheese. I know it sounds like a lot, but I bet you would crave a loaded, creamy soup when it is cold outside, and you are snuggling on your couch.
Tips To Make Crockpot Chicken Soup
Making soup in a slow cooker is easy, and the outcome is outstanding. You need to spend only 10 minutes of your time, and the rest will be done in the slow cooker.
While you can dump chicken and the rest of the ingredients into the slow cooker and cook it, I would prefer first to saute the aromatics in a pan. Frying onion and garlic in the oil gives a deep flavor.
Another important step while making this recipe is adding dairy products at the end of the cooking. So that dairy is not overcooked with other spices and curdles or gives a weird taste.
Is This Soup Low Carb/ Keto?
This soup is low-carb. If you follow Keto, you can easily adjust the recipe as per your macro.
I am going to add some crunchy tortilla chips on my cheat day.
Make a big batch of it and freeze it for later. Another favorite soup this season is this Low Carb Cabbage Chicken Taco Soup. Another Mexican soup with mindblowing flavors
Can It Be Made In An Instant Pot?
For most of us, winter is about slow-cooked soup in a crockpot and a house filled with that cozy smell of the soup. Nothing can beat Chicken soup made in a crockpot.
But you know what? I love my Instant Pot equally. It is such a time savior. This soup is a favorite at home, and readers have even made it in Instant Pot.
The soup is as good as the slow cooker version, and it takes only 15 minutes from start to end; the best part is you can also throw in the frozen chicken breast if you haven’t planned to thaw it earlier.
The recipe below includes detailed instructions and a video to make this soup in an Instant Pot.
Storage
You can refrigerate this soup for up to 3 days. Since it has onion, garlic, and everything, it would not stay fresh beyond this.
The good news is you can safely freeze in an air-tight container for up to 2 months.
When it is time to take this out from the freezer/fridge, just let it thaw so that you can see liquid forming again while it comes closer to room temperature Microwave it in a safe container before serving.
Serve With
This hearty and flavorful soup can be served with a variety of accompaniments.
- Sour cream – To increase the creaminess, add a dollop of sour cream to make it more luxurious.
- Tortilla – You can also serve it with some Tortilla chips or warm tortillas, which you can have as a crunchy accompaniment or dip into the soup.
- Mexican rice – This is packed with tomato flavor and is a perfect side dish to other Mexican dishes.
- Avocado – Slice or dice some ripe avocados and serve them as a garnish or on the side. The creamy, buttery texture of avocados adds richness to the soup while providing a cool and refreshing element.
Other Comforting soup recipes
SLOW COOKER MEXICAN CHICKEN SOUP
Ingredients
- 400 grams boneless skinless chicken breast
- 1 14 oz can Fire-roasted plum tomato (ref note 1)
- 2 tspn oil
- 1 medium onion Finely Chopped
- 1 tbsp Minced garlic
- 1 red bell pepper Chopped
- 1.5 tsp Roasted Cumin powder
- 1 tsp Dried Oregano
- 1.5 tsp Chipotle chilli powder (ref note 2)
- 1 tsp paprika (Optional)
- 1.5 cups chicken stock
- 1 cup half and half
- ½ Cup Cream Cheese (room temperature)
- 1 cup cheddar cheese (or Mexican blend)
- Salt to taste
- Fresh Cilantro leaves for garnishing
Instructions
TO MAKE IN SLOW COOKER
- Take oil in a pan. Once hot, put minced garlic, followed by onion. Fry till Onion starts to soften a little bit and it is aromatic.
- To a pre-heated Slow cooker, add chicken breast, crushed tomatoes, cooked Onion and garlic mixture, all the spices, warm Chicken Stock and salt.
- Cover and let it cook on high 3 hours.
- To the Crock-Pot, stir in chopped bell peppers, Cream, cream cheese, Shredded cheese. Further, cook on high for 20-30 minutes until all the cheese has melted.
- At the end of cooking using two forks shred the chicken breast.
- While serving, top it with fresh cilantro, Sour cream, Avocados.
TO MAKE IN AN INSTANT POT
- Set the Instant Pot to Saute mode. Once hot add oil.
- Add minced garlic and chopped Onion to the pot. Saute until onion has softened and it is aromatic.
- Add Cumin powder, Chipotle Chilli Powder, Oregano, Paprika. Saute for 30 seconds. ( By sauteing the spices in oil, it develops flavour. This step can be skipped)
- Stir in Roasted Tomatoes, Chicken Stock. Scarp the bottom of the pot to release any stuck brown bits. Add salt.
- Add Chicken Breast to the pot. Cover the lid and cook on Manual /High-Pressure mode for 8 minutes.
- Let the pressure release naturally for 10 minutes followed by Manually releasing the rest of the pressure.
- Carefully remove Chicken breast in a plate and shred the chicken breast using forks.
- To the pot, add chopped bell pepper, Softened Cream Cheese, Cheddar Cheese and half & half. Stir well until all the cheese has melted.
- Add back the shredded chicken to the pot. Stir well.
- While serving garnish with fresh coriander leaves.
Video
Notes
- In case Roasted Tomatoe is not available, Use regular Canned Tomatoes.
- Chipotle Powder can be substituted by Smoked paprika.
- Sauteing onion and garlic in oil is to caramelize and develope flavours. You can certainly skip it and dump all the ingridents to the slow cooker/Instant pot and cook , followed by adding rest of the ingredients.
- I don’t like to cook Cheese or cream for a longer time as it kills the delicate flavour. So I always prefer to add dairy towards the end.
- You can also use Frozen Chicken Breast if you are making the Soup in an Instant Pot(That’s the beauty of Instant Pot). Just reduce the amount of stock to 1 cup. Cook on high for 12 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of Natural pressure release.
Nutrition
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400 grams =Is it 1 pound of chicken?
300 grams=??
on the cream, can I use heavy cream?
Looking forward to making this. Sounds delish!!
Did you cook the chicken before adding it? Can’t wait to try this!
No Need to cook chicken.
How long did you cook it? And was your crockpot on high or low
It is on high for 3 hours.
serving for 4
Calories 502
Total Fat 32.1g 41%
Saturated Fat 17.1g 86%
Cholesterol 165mg 55%
Sodium 770mg 33%
Total Carbohydrate 12.3g 4%
Dietary Fiber 2.2g 8%
Total Sugars 5.2g
Protein 40.2g
Would really like to try but I need nutrition info.
It’s listed in comments above
And below ur comment as well
I STARTED THE KETO DIET ABOUT 2-WEEKS AGO AND I LIVE IN BITTER COLD MINNESOTA AND I WAS MISSING SOUP….I SAW THIS ON PINTREST MAD IT THE OTHER NIGHT AND LOVED IT! I OMITTED THE PEPPER CAUSE I DON’T LIKE BUT OTHER THAN THAT IT WAS GREAT AND SATISFYING!
IT’LL BE A KETO STAPLE FOR MEALS MOVING FORWARD….THANKS
5-STARTS OUT OF 5!
What is 1 cup cream.
I tried making a double batch tonight and it was delicious! I added mushrooms as well. I am also curious what the carb/protein/fat count on a serving. I didn’t bother to calculate when cooking as I was very busy. I will be eating this for dinner most of the week.
Someone calculated it and posted above
Was the cook time in the crockpot the same when doubling the ingredients?
Yes it should be. as long the crockpot is large enough to hold all the ingredients.
Think this recipe would work with low or low-fat cheeses?
It should work. It might not be equally rich and creamy though.
What is the cream? Is it heavy whipping cream?
Yes
This makes keto-friendly Mexican food so easy! Sweeeet!
Also waiting on nutritional facts lmao
It’s posted in comments above
We enjoyed this! Instead of “mexican seasoning”, I added some chili powder (which is not cayenne). Corn, black beans, avocado would be wonderful in it. Will make it again.
The cup of cream? Whipping cream or sour cream?
Either would be good! I used heavy whipping cream. I also used the entire carton of chicken broth to stretch it out more…. to that end I also used frozen fully cooked chicken..: lastly I used a can of rotell sp?
AMAZING!!!!!
It is half and half. You could also use Heavy cream, but it the soup would be rich.
WHAT kind of cream?
You can use half and half. For the more rich version, you can also use Heavy cream.
I am in Mexico and didn’t have cream or half and half so I used Media Crema. Delicious!!
Thank you! Gald you liked it.
A delicious recipe. Were you able to add the nutritional information?
thanks
And what are nutritional facts?
Just calculated the nutrients in this recipe! It looks so good, but wanted to check the macros first.
Macros for 113g serving:
4.3g carbs/10.1g protein/12g fat/0.6g fiber
See here for more detailed nutrition info: https://cronometer.com/food.html?food=3514999&amount=113&measure=9120060&labelType=AMERICAN_2016
I tried to use mostly generic ingredients, also included the amount of salt I guessed for the recipe ~ 1 tsp (so sodium info may be off depending on how much salt you use) and I did not include cilantro in the nutrition info.
Hope this helps!
Thank you for calculating this meal!
I would like to cook longer on low. How long should it be for low?
on low for 6-7 hours
I made this recipe tonight and it is delicious (if a tad salty). I would also like to know if the nutrition information has already beeen calculated?
What are the nutrition facts/macro count for this recipe? Since it’s keto, I would imagine the macros have been pre-calculated? I would love to know. Thank you!
I’ve put all the ingredients into carb manager minus tomotates I only used mushroom and onion as veg in mine and it’s come out at 3G net carbs per seving.. however I’m still fairly new to this woe so I could be wrong
This recipe is keto compatible but as I have made it in bulk I have not calculated the macros. I would adjust the recipe as per my macro for a single serving. However, I will update the recipe with nutritional info shortly.
Thank you
Did you update the Marcos yet? Just curious, it looks delicious and I want to try it out .
What exactly is in “Mexican Seasoning”?
Hello Angel, Just like Taco seasoning, We get something called Mexican Seasoning here in India. For extra flavor you can add Mexcian seasoning, else it is optional. Would love to know if you try the recipe 🙂
Thank you!
Hey angel. McCormick has a Mexican seasoning
. I found it at our local food lion.