Slow Cooker Chicken Tortilla Soup

This healthy crockpot chicken tortilla soup is a perfectly hearty, feel good soup. After a tiring, busy day it's just what you'll look forward to coming home to!

The recipe has been revisited and improved recently for increased flavor. I also personally prefer it with chicken thighs now for the better texture (and also more flavor).

The prep for this crockpot soup couldn't be easier, you simply layer and pour everything into a slow cooker without pre-cooking required. No chopping or searing meat first, or sautéing vegetables beforehand. It's one of those lazy, throw it together and turn on the power dinner meals.

I love to load it up with toppings but even without them you'd still have a completely satisfying soup. Tasty toppings additions include all those classics - tortilla chips, cheese, sour cream, avocado or guacamole, cilantro, and some hot sauce if you want it spicy.

It's also a highly adaptable soup. For recipe variations you can trade out vegetables for others, increase spices, try other chilies, and even use other types of protein (such as cooked ground beef or seared pieces of stew meat).

Start with this base recipe the first time around then after that change it up to your hearts content or using up what you have on hand.

Filling Thai Chicken Lettuce Wraps

These Thai Chicken Lettuce Wraps are everything you'd want them be and then some! They have well rounded flavor, you'll find them easy to make, and they have the perfect crunch factor thanks to the tender crisp veggies, lettuce, and peanuts.

The chicken (or turkey) keeps them nice and filling but if you want an even heartier meal you can serve these with a side of rice.

You can adjust the sauces here to suite your taste. If you like the flavor of fish sauce you can add more. If you love heat load them up with the Sambal Oelek or Sriracha. And for more peanut flavor be sure to try them finished with a creamy peanut sauce (it so delicious and worth the extra bit of effort).

I know it's a fairly lengthy list of ingredients here but I don't recommend leaving any out. Everything comes together beautifully to create a truly tasty, veggie and chicken-filled lettuce wrap that you'll want to make on repeat.

Easy Black Bean Soup

This black bean soup is a must try soup recipe! Sure it may sound meh if you've never had it but trust me, if you flavor it right it can become a crave-worthy soup.

Here we add rich bacon, vibrant bell pepper or poblano peppers, fire roasted tomatoes, earthy seasonings including cumin and ancho chili powder and it takes basic bland black beans to an exciting new level.

And let's not forget to mention those highlighting finishes. Bright fresh lime juice, herby cilantro, creamy avocados and sour cream, and always cheese (cheddar, queso fresco or feta are great).

This may just become a new favorite black bean recipe for you!

Here you get corn tortillas layered with charred and tender, cilantro-lime marinated grilled chicken thighs and they’re finished with creamy avocados. YUM!

The Best Mexican Street Tacos

We are in the middle of moving (always crazy, as I'm sure you know) but the thing I'm wanting to make most once we are all unpacked are these street tacos. I couldn't count how many times I've made these things.

They're always on rotation on our dinner menu, and I love to serve them at parties. Plus they are a healthier dinner option.

You'll love this street taco recipe not only because they taste amazing, but also because it's one of those easy to throw together recipes and you can also get a head start it a few hours in advance with the marinating.

If you want to go all out, you can serve them with carne asada tacos as well (just slice strips into small pieces). I love getting each kind when I get them on the street in Mexico or in restaurants, so one of these days I'm going to feel ambitious and make all three at once (chicken, carne asada and carnitas).

Chicken Street Tacos Video

Easy Chicken Soup with Fresh Avocado

It can be made with made uncooked chicken breasts, leftover chicken or rotisserie chicken. But the key here is great avocados - use just ripe avocados (not hard, and not mushy).

Another great thing about this soup are those finishing touches, like tortilla chips, cheese and sour cream. They perfectly polish it off.

This soup is likely to become a new favorite! It's basically just an avocado amped up tortilla soup or something like if you turned guacamole into a soup.

Of course all of us can't resist soups during the cold weather months but there's just something so bright and summery about this soup. It must have something to do with the abundance of fresh flavors.

Really it's perfect 365 days a year. A delicious new chicken recipe and the perfect way to use up avocados.

What Is Salsa Verde?

Salsa Verde originated from Mexico and is a green salsa, usually tomatillo-based (unlike a red tomato-based salsa). It is usually used as a chip dip with tortilla chips or as a green sauce on tacos (I also love it on enchiladas, fajitas, tostadas, and chimichangas!)

This is a roasted version of green salsa - nothing overly roasted or too far blackened for my liking, just a fair char on two sides. Then just add everything to a food processor a give it a few quick blitzes, easy as can be.

I definitely prefer this roasting method over the raw versions or boil versions. Roasted tomatillo salsas are my idea of the BEST salsa verde!

Tomatillo salsa verde is one of my go-to snacks and toppings, try it and you'll see why!

Great for busy days where you can come home to dinner ready to eat!

Slow Cooker Chicken Fajitas

For almost 5 years these Slow Cooker Chicken Fajitas have been one of the most popular recipes on my blog. Because we all love an easy delicious recipe don't we? This is real life and we are busy people.

With this simplified recipe you get to skip marinating, and you also get to skip sauteing veggies and chicken in batches (and therefor tending to it). Instead here, the crockpot does most of the work.

And not only that, cooking it in the slow cooker allows plenty of time to for the flavors to meld together and really soak into the chicken and veggies, plus it will leave you with perfectly tender chicken every time.

It's a delicious family friendly recipe and it makes plenty so you may be lucky enough to have left overs for lunch the next day!

Then for the days you didn't plan ahead for a slow cooker dinner try my Sheet Pan Chicken Fajitas, everything cooks together on one sheet pan. So easy and so good!

Cilantro Lime Rice

My family loves this rice and I love that it's one of those things we can all agree on. Nothing fancy, nothing too bold just simple rice with a nice zip to it.

It makes perfect left over rice so you could definitely make it a day in advance and just rewarm it the following day, I'd say the texture is even better after it has rested a while in the fridge.

It also makes a great filling for your favorite burritos, it's perfect in a taco bowl, it's makes a delicious side to grilled salmon, and it even makes a tasty topping on a Mexican salad too. Like I said, such a versatile side dish!

Make a batch this week! And while you're at it pile avocado slices on top, because why not? Everything is better with avocado!

What is Pad Thai?

Pad Thai is Thailands National dish and likely the most popular order at the majority of Thai restaurants here in the U.S.

It is a noodle stir fry dish traditionally made up of rice noodles, shrimp, tofu, eggs and a deeply flavored, sweet and sour sauce. The sauce is usually consists of ingredients such as fish sauce, tamarind paste, dried shrimp and palm sugar.

Is This Authentic Pad Thai?

I'll be the first to admit this is not the typical Pad Thai you'd find in Thailand. My version uses common ingredients found in the U.S. with a similar, and equally as delicious flavor to an authentic version.

So, you won't have to make a special trip to the Asian grocery store that may be 30 miles or more away from home.

In this Pad Thai you'll find tender pieces of chicken and lots of fresh vegetables and it's all tossed with the most crave-worthy sauce, and of course, finished with an abundance of crunchy peanuts.

You'll see based off of the reviews and comments this has been a reader favorite!

Each bite truly just melts in your mouth. Just be sure to finish it with fluffy whipped cream for an over-the-top, incredibly enticing dessert!

The Best Key Lime Pie Recipe!

Key lime pie is a great dessert year round but doesn't something about it just scream spring and summer?

It's so vibrant and refreshing and I love that is an easy to make pie that doesn't require a whole lot of extra effort.

The simple filling comes together in no time and its so nice that it uses a graham cracker crust so you don't have to wait for dough to chill and it doesn't make the big floury mess all over the counter (and the floor, and your clothes if you're a messy baker like me).

Plus, it's a flavor pairing that's just meant to be the way the honey graham cracker flavor blends with the creamy lime flavor is the perfect match.

The great thing about this pie is that it fancy enough for the holidays but it's easy enough for an after dinner weekend treat. Any of the 365 days of the year are the perfect day to make this decadently luscious pie!

Watch the Key Lime Pie Video!

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