This zesty Mexican Chicken Soup is simple to prepare for those busy weeknights, and it’s full of great flavors! This one’s a crowd pleaser all right.

Zesty Chicken Soup
Doesn’t get much better than this Mexican Chicken Soup! I am celebrating with this delicious and so simple to prepare Mexican style soup. It’s packed with my homemade spanish rice, vegetables and chunks of chicken in a flavorful zesty broth. Cholula is my go to hot sauce for everything. It flavored my broth perfectly without being too spicy. We love it in my house!
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Here are the ingredients you’ll need for your soup. Simple pantry and refrigerator items. To save yourself some time, cook your chicken ahead of time so it’s ready to go 🙂
Start by sautéing your onions.
Homemade Chicken Soup Recipe
Add your carrots and some fresh garlic. Cook and stir until slightly softened.
Add your cooked rice. and seasonings.
Finish up the spanish rice by adding salt, pepper, tomato sauce and chicken broth to start the soup.
Dice your chicken and add it to the pot.
Season the soup with Cholula hot sauce. I used 4 tablespoons, but use more or less to according to your liking.
Add some fresh cilantro and or parsley and simmer on low until you are ready to serve!
Spoon into your favorite bowl and enjoy!
Mexican Chicken Soup
Equipment
- Stove
Ingredients
- 2 cups uncooked rice of choice
- 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 1 cup finely chopped white onion
- 1/2 cup diced carrots
- 3 tablespoons finely chopped fresh garlic
- 3 tablespoons ground cumin
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1 cup tomato sauce
- 64 ounces reduced sodium chicken broth
- 10 ounce can Rotel diced tomatoes mild
- 2 tablespoons lime juice
- 4 cups diced cooked chicken breast
- 1/4 cup Cholula Hot Sauce
- 1/2 cup finely chopped cilantro
Instructions
- Cook rice according to package directions.
- Heat oil in large dutch oven over medium heat. Saute onions, carrots and garlic for 5-10 minutes, stirring often. Add rice, cumin, salt and pepper, stirring to combine. Stir in tomato sauce.
- Add chicken broth, tomatoes, lime juice and hot sauce and cilantro, stirring. Simmer on low until ready to serve.
Just made this and it was absolutely delicious! But did you by any chance mean 2 cups COOKED rice instead of uncooked? I ended up having to add an additional 32 oz of chicken broth.
I notice lime juice and rotel in the picture but do not see them in the recipe… How much of these are needed? Thanks.
My husband love chicken soup with rice, and I am gonna try this to night
Hey! Thanks for sharing this awesome recipe. It’s not often that I find such a great recipe and actually already HAVE the ingredients 🙂 Thanks for posting this. http://www.pinterest.com/happysolez/pins/
This looks and sounds delish! Question about products in photo, Rotel-did you add tomatoes, and the bright green container is? Thank you!
Holy cow this sounds good!
Great recipe! I have never thought I could put a rice into the chicken soup. I will try this for sure. Thanks for the step by step tutorial.
This is my kind of comfort food!
This looks yummy. I just picked up 2 bottles of this hot sauce and a sack of rice this weekend, so I will give this a try! Thanks.
Great! Hope you enjoy!
I notice Rotel in pics but you didn’t use it in recipe. Is that an oversight?
Yes you are right. I will go edit the recipe. Thanks for catching that 🙂
Thank you for the recipe. So there should be rotel? How much and when to put in? Thanks
Love this recipe Jenny. But wondering how much rotel is needed?? Cheers!
Cholula totally makes almost anything better in my mind. this look awesome!
Thanks Tieghan 🙂
Sounds nice – thank you.
oh, I LOVE cholula!! this soup looks great Jenny!!
Thanks Heather! We are Cholula fanatics 🙂
Happy Cinco de Mayo! Now I need to go make my self a bowl of this soup and enjoy the Mexican flavors!
Jenny, this soup looks so wonderful & healthy too!
I love the use of Cholula in this–it totally makes it!
I love love your blog and I would like to pin your recipes more often…..for months however, I’ve had a lot of trouble pinning them on both my phone and ipad. Thanks, I hope for lots of pinning in the future 🙂
I am having the same problem. When you point to Pinterest the icon disappears.
Thanks for letting me know Ellen. Can you tell me what browser you are using. It seems to be working on my end. Would love to send this info to my designer.
Thanks for letting me know Stephanie. Can you tell me what browser you are using. It seems to be working on my end. Would love to send this info to my designer.
Jenny, do you know the nutritional info on this recipe?
Mmmm….this sounds amazing! I’m thinking dinner tonight!
What a great soup to have on any weeknight plus today on Cinco de Mayo!!
Perfect for Cinco de Mayo!
What a tasty chicken and rice soup!
Ohhhh yummy! I may have to make it for Cinco de Mayo!
My boys love chicken soup with rice…this is a fabulous variation!! And I’m all about any meal I can prep during baby naps 🙂
This sounds like a really yummy warming dish!