New Year's resolutions - new recipe, week 6 - Chicken Enchilada Soup

Only one new recipe last week, and it was a good one! This time, I found inspiration from a Facebook group I follow for easy crockpot dinners. Originally planned for the prior week, we didn't get around to it, and when I ended up home sick last Monday, I was glad to have something easy to make that might also be comfort food for a cold night and stuffy head.

Chicken Enchilada soup was long on ingredients but short on difficulty; pretty much everything came in a can, except the chicken itself:

Put the chicken breasts in the bottom of the crockpot, then mix all of the ingredients together in prep:

It didn't have to cook all day; this was a 5-6 hour on low kind of recipe, but as Justin was working, something happened to the electricity and we realized at some point that the crockpot had been turned off. Thank goodness slow cooker soups are so forgiving! We turned it back on and crossed our fingers. We would be eating later than hoped, but at least dinner was still on track:

By the time we sat down together to eat, I was in a hurry getting everything on the table, and almost forgot to snap a picture of the final product. Topped with tortilla strips, avocado slices, sour cream and shredded cheese, it was a full meal in a bowl.

As it turned out, it was also a little bit spicy, which for my stuffy head was a welcome aspect of the meal. It gave me a little bit of temporary relief from the congestion, and it tasted really good to boot! John even had seconds, which is a very rare occurrence for almost any meal, so this is definitely one to put on the list for the crockpot rotation.

Cold night, warm soup, comfort food when I was feeling sick - hard to beat that combination!