Creamy Green Chile Chicken Soup

This easy to make Creamy Green Chile Chicken Soup is perfect for a big dinner or meal prep! Served with green chiles, salsa verde, chicken, and veggies, it’s light comfort food.

It’s also gluten and dairy free, even if you’d never guess it!

Green Chicken Chile Soup

This creamy green chile soup is a bowl of pure comfort food. Mexican-inspired flavors like green chiles, salsa verde, and lime come together in an easy-to-make soup. We opted to use cashew cream for this creamy soup without any cheese or dairy, and it really brightens up the whole dish.

This soup is perfect for weeknight dinners with leftover chicken or shredded grilled chicken. And, you can add your favorite toppings to customize it!

what do you need to do

Scroll down for the full ingredient list!

• Shredded cooked chicken (see note below)
• canned green chilies
• store bought salsa verde
• lime juice
• onion
• Green pepper
• radish
• Potato
• white beans
• chicken soup
• salt + cumin
• Cashew Cream (see note below)
• avocado
• coriander

what type of chicken to use

This recipe calls for cooked shredded chicken.You can use rotisserie chicken, leftover chicken from another meal, or if you need to use fresh chicken for cooking, use this recipe chicken wire In the Instant Pot or Slow Cooker!

hint: Or if you don’t want to do a separate recipe, you can also dice and brown the chicken breast first and start with step one.

how to customize

As with all soups, it’s super easy to customize what’s in this soup!

Among the flavors that stand out are canned green chiles and salsa verde. So try not to skip those. But the veggies, potatoes, and beans are easy to swap out with what you have on hand! Need to replace the bean or omit it? That’s okay too.

You can also add other vegetables to suit your taste, such as:

• corn
• green beans
• different peppers
• zucchini or zucchini

Want to make this a plant-based starter?

Skip the chicken and eat more veggies!

What is Cashew Cream?

This soup uses our favorite dairy-free addition trick Cashew Cream Make it creamy without any added dairy. Cashew cream is simply soaking cashews and blending them until they are smooth and creamy.

We love that it’s delicious, easy to make, and adds more nutrition to the soup in the form of healthy fats and protein.

PS You made it yourself!follow my guide How to Make Cashew Cream!

what to serve with this soup

You can add whatever you want here!

These are some of my favorites:

• corn flake
• plantain flakes
• diced avocado
• extra salsa verde
• Chives
• shredded cheddar cheese
• pickled or fresh jalapeños
• coriander

Can this soup be frozen?

Due to the added cashew cream, we do not recommend freezing this soup.

If you want to freeze it, omit the cashew cream.

Once you warm it back from frozen, you can add the cashew cream/heavy cream.check it out Freezer Meal Guide More tips on freezing meals.

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• 2 teaspoon olive or avocado oil
• 1 medium sized onion Fine Ding
• 1 Green pepper diced
• 2 radish Fine Ding
• 2 medium yellow potatoes Peel and cut into ½” pieces
• 1 4 oz can mild diced green chilies
• 1 15 ounces cannellini beans, rinsed and drained (optional)
• 1 cup store bought salsa verde
• 2 cup Shredded cooked chicken Roast chicken works great here
• 6 cup chicken soup
• 1 teaspoon sea ​​salt
• 1 teaspoon cumin powder
• ⅓ cup Cashew Cream or heavy cream
• 1 tablespoon lime juice
• 2 avocado diced
• ¼ cup ground coriander
• lime slices for decoration

• Heat oil in a large Dutch oven. Once hot add the onions, peppers, and carrots, and cook, stirring occasionally, until very softened, about 10 minutes.

• Add the potatoes, green chiles, beans, salsa verde, shredded chicken, broth, salt, and cumin and toss together. Bring to a boil, then reduce to a simmer and simmer until the potatoes are tender and the stock has reduced slightly, about 20-25 minutes.

• Stir in the cashew cream, lime juice, and cilantro. Taste and adjust seasoning, adding more salt or lime juice as needed.

• Serve hot with desired garnish.

Cashew cream is essentially blended cashews that can be turned into a stable dairy-free alternative to heavy cream.we have a whole Cashew Cream Making Guide. If you are not dairy intolerant, you can use heavy cream.