Tangy Tasty Tomatillo Soup

Engrossed's Note:

This is a much played with recipe. I love it! I like it chunky. Feel free to adjust it to your own tastes.

• Total Time: 1 hrs
• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 8

• 3 boneless skinless chicken breast halves, cooked and shredded
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 red onion, chopped
• 1 white onion, chopped
• 5 garlic cloves, minced
• 2 lbs tomatillos, whole hulled and rinsed (No need to chop.)
• 3 jalapeno peppers, seeded and minced
• 6 cups chicken broth
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic salt, more to taste
• ground black pepper, to taste
• cayenne pepper, to taste
• 2 red onions, chopped
• 2 green bell peppers, chopped
• 1 red bell pepper, chopped
• 1 yellow bell pepper, chopped
• 1 yellow jalapeno, minced
• 1 (7 ounce) can mild green chilies, diced
• 1 (10 ounce) bag frozen corn
• 1 cup frozen baby peas
• 1 cup frozen chopped spinach
• 2 lemons, juice of
• sugar, to taste if too acidic
• sour cream, to serve
• cilantro, chopped to serve

Directions:

1. Cook and shred chicken. Set aside.
2. Heat oil over medium high heat in a large pot or dutch oven. Ingredients 3-8: add 1 red onion and 1 white onion, saute until golden. Add garlic and saute 1-2 minutes. Stir in tomatillos, 3 jalapenos and broth. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover and simmer for about 15 minutes until the tomatillos start to burst.
3. Puree in pot with an immersion blender. Stir in garlic salt, black pepper and cayenne pepper to taste.
4. Add reserved shredded chicken and the rest of the ingredients up to the chopped spinach and cook until heated through.
5. Stir in lemon juice and sugar if desired and remove from heat.
6. Serve in bowls topped with sour cream and cilantro to taste. Tortilla chips are also good with this.

Reviews

[Chef #1132756]

I have never done a review before but just had to on this one. It is fantastic! We are vegetarians, so I left out the chicken and it was still delicious! Also, I used chipotle peppers in adobo sauce in place of the jalapenos....be careful - it is pretty spicy!!! YUM! judy

[karen in tbay]

Pretty much followed the ingredients except where we were short - 1 red onion and 1 pepper and 1 yellow jalapeno. Expected more heat so am reheating leftovers and adding a jamaiican pepper and some shrimp that needs to be used up. Smells wonderful

[ellie_]

Very good and filling! I adjusted this recipe slightly by using only one pound of tomatillos, only 2 onions (one red and one white), only 4 oz of green chiles and skipping the spinach and the garnishes. I also only used 2 chicken breasts--delicious! I think the leftovers will make wonderful lunches too! Thanks for sharing this very versatile soup which we will be having often!