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Chicken Tortilla Soup

Chicken Tortilla Soup

This soup is one of our favorites. The tortillas blended into the soup give the broth an added dimension and the chipotle in adobo adds a subtle but pleasant heat. If your heat tolerance is low, use less or if you want a spicier soup, use more. Make sure that you are pulling out a chipotle pepper to use and not just scooping up the adobo sauce (although the sauce is delicious, it won’t provide much heat).

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Chicken Stock

Chicken Stock

When making chicken stock, I really like using a rotisserie chicken. The roasted chicken gives the stock an added dimension of flavor. Shredded chicken is also a really handy thing to have around, especially during soup season. I prefer making this in a pressure cooker, I think it extracts more flavor and makes a better stock, but you can absolutely make chicken stock without one.

I don’t add any salt to my stock. The stock is almost always reduced down further when it is used and I don’t want it to become salty. Adding salt later, when you go to use the stock, helps you control the seasoning. When adding herbs, I usually try to use up what I have on hand. If I don’t have any fresh herbs, then using dried is fine.

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