Chicken Avocado Lime Soup
- Ready In:
- 1hr
- Ingredients:
- 15
- Serves:
-
4-6
ingredients
- 1 1⁄2 lbs chicken breasts, boneless and skinless
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 cup green onion, chopped (including whites, mince the whites)
- 2 jalapenos, seeded and minced (leave seeds if you want soup spicy, omit if you don't like heat)
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 4 (14 1/2 ounce) cans low sodium chicken broth
- 2 roma tomatoes, seeded and diced
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground cumin
- salt and pepper, to taste
- 1⁄3 cup cilantro, chopped
- 3 tablespoons fresh lime juice
- 3 medium avocados, peeled, cored and diced
- tortilla chips, for serving
- monterey jack cheese, for serving
- sour cream, for serving
directions
- In a large pot heat 1 Tbsp olive oil over medium heat.
- Once hot, add green onions and jalapenos and sauté until tender, about 2 minutes, adding garlic during last 30 seconds of sautéing.
- Add chicken broth, tomatoes, cumin, season with salt and pepper to taste and add chicken breasts. Bring mixture to a boil over medium-high heat. Then reduce heat to medium, cover with lid and allow to cook, stirring occasionally, until chicken has cooked through 10 - 15 minutes (cook time will vary based on thickness of chicken breasts).
- Reduce burner to warm heat, remove chicken from pan and let rest on a cutting board 5 minutes, then shred chicken and return to soup.
- Stir in cilantro and lime juice.
- Add avocados to soup just before serving (if you don't plan on serving the soup right away, I would recommend adding the avocados to each bowl individually, about 1/2 an avocado per serving).
- Serve with tortilla chips, cheese and sour cream if desired.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
lecole54
Machias, Maine
I only came to cooking in my 50s, when we moved home to a tiny town with only a few restaurants. I'm always on the hunt for easy, flavorful recipes (often ethnic cuisines), and I'm always ready to try something new and different! In cold weather I gravitate to stews, soups, and casseroles of the not-too-heavy kind; in hot weather I love a salad or cold soup. Partly because of my husband's diabetes (I'm borderline) and partly out of indolence, baking is not my thing.