Crock Pot Enchilada Soup

This is one of my favorite super easy soup recipes! Crock Pot Enchilada soup relies on canned ingredients so as long as you keep those on hand, you’ll be able to make this soup in 5 minutes any time. Just dump all the ingredients in and either cook it on low or high depending on how soon you need to eat.

Here’s how I make this super easy Crock Pot Enchilada Soup:

1. Before I go to bed at night I put 1 lb of black beans in the crock pot and cover it with several inches of water. Cook on low.
2. In the morning I drain the water out of the crock pot (it’s ok not to get all of it out, just pour out what you can.)
3. Then I add the rest of the ingredients: canned chicken (with water), enchilada sauce, corn (with water), and all the spices.
4. Turn on high for a few hours and it will be ready for lunch!

Crock Pot Enchilada Soup

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Ingredients

• 1 lb dried black beans (or 4 cans black beans)
• 3 cans cooked chicken chunks
• 1 10 oz can enchilada sauce
• 1 can sweet corn
• 1-2 Tbs chili powder
• 3 Tbs dried diced onion
• 1 Tbs garlic salt
• 1 tsp sea salt

Instructions

1. If using dried beans, cook overnight in crockpot of water on low. Or cook in the morning on high.
2. Drain water from beans. (If using canned, put in crockpot)
3. Add the rest of the ingredients.
4. Cook on low 6-8 hours or high 2-4 hours. Everything is cooked, so the timing isn't important. You're just heating it up and letting the flavors mingle.
5. Serve with cheese, sour cream and tortilla chips if desired.

A few notes about Crock Pot Enchilada Soup:

1. To make it for dinner, cook the beans on high from like 8-11am. Then add the ingredients and cook on low until dinner time.
2. You can also use canned beans. I never have before, but I estimate it would take 4 cans of black beans. Don’t drain them.
3. If you accidentally drain the canned ingredients, add 1/2 carton of chicken broth to your soup so it’s not too chunky.
4. I usually cook about 3-4 lbs of beans at a time and scoop them out into ziplock bags and freeze. Then when I want to make this in a hurry and don’t have time to cook beans (say less than 2 hours), I will grab a bag of beans out of the freezer. Beans are so easy to cook and so much cheaper dried than canned, that I can’t bring myself to ever buy or use canned beans. So if you’re not good at planning ahead, once a week cook several pounds of beans and freeze or store in the fridge and use all week for adding to salads, taco meat, soups, sloppy joes, etc. If using frozen beans, thaw under hot water while you add everything else. Then dump the beans in and cook on high an hour or two. The longer the better for mingled flavors. However, since everything is cooked, it’s fine to only cook for 1 hour also if you’re pressed for time.
5. Having said that, the leftover soup is the best because the flavors have mingled the longest.

A few more notes about this tasty Enchilada Soup:

1. Serve with shredded cheese, sour cream, and tortilla chips or Fritos. We also eat with a small side salad and glass of cold milk.
2. You can make it as spicy as you want by buying hot enchilada sauce or adding extra chili powder. Don’t like it spicy? Buy mild enchilada sauce and chili powder.
3. Want it healthier? Use:
   • organic free-range chicken (perhaps buy whole from a farmer and cook and de-bone.)
   • organic enchilada sauce (or make your own)
   • organic corn
   • organic or homegrown spices
   • raw cheese
   • organic or homemade tortilla chips.

I hope you love this soup as much as we do!! It’s definitely a go-to meal for us. Remarkably, every child in our family loves it!

Here are some great things about Crock Pot Enchilada Soup:

• It’s great year round.
• We can easily double it when we have company over.
• We love the leftovers for lunch the next day.
• It’s easy to make healthier by using organic free range chicken and my other suggestions above.
• It’s cheap.
• Super easy for kids to make using all canned food.
• Kids love it.
• Easy to make in a hotel or RV. Just bring along a crock pot and the canned ingredients!

Try it! And feel free to adapt it to your family’s liking: extra corn, green chilies, chicken broth, etc.

This is the awesome CrockPot instant pot I have! https://amzn.to/3VnBuLa