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This delicious and easy taco soup can be made with ground beef or even chicken or turkey for an incredible healthy supper for the family! It is mildly spicy and full of rich, Tex Mex flavor.

You can also try my white chicken chili or my Shredded Chicken Tacos, two more great dinner recipes!

Taco Soup

Taco soup definitely isn’t the kind of thing that you would find in Mexico, especially with a large number of canned ingredients as in this recipe.

However, not everyone is lucky enough to be easily able to source high-quality, fresh ingredients, and cans are a great substitute. Plus, there is just something amazingly delicious about those little cans of diced green chili peppers that even the fresh kinds don’t quite replicate.

Depending on your red meat preferences, you can easily sub in either chicken or turkey for this recipe. Just remember that if you do use turkey, you probably don’t want to drain away any excess fat, as turkey can be dry if separated from what little fat it has.

Taco Soup Ingredients

Make sure you look at the recipe card at the very bottom for the exact amounts so that you know exactly what to buy for this recipe.

• Ground beef, or chicken or turkey

• medium white onion

• minced garlic

• Taco seasoning mix

• Can of black beans

• Can fo sweet corn

• Can of tomato sauce

• Beef broth

• Can of diced tomatoes

• Can of diced mild green chili peppers

• Fresh cilantro

• Lime wedges

• Tex Mex cheese

• Avocado

• Corn tortillas

How To Make Taco Soup

• In a large soup pot over medium-high heat, brown the beef along with the onion.

• Drain excess fat, then sauté the garlic until fragrant.

• Add in the taco seasoning and sauté for another 2 minutes.

• Add in the beans, corn, tomato sauce, broth, tomatoes, and chili peppers

• cover & bring to a simmer for 15 minutes

• Remove from the heat and stir in the cilantro, ladling into serving bowls and topping with cheese, avocados, and tortilla chips

• Serve with extra lime wedges

How To Make Your Own Taco Seasoning For This Recipe

Pretty much any supermarket will stock a wide away of different Mexican seasoning blends, including a usually typical and delicious taco seasoning mix.

However, the thing about most taco seasoning blends is that they are never going to be as good as some homemade, individually balanced seasonings instead.

To make your own seasoning blend, try to think of your favorite seasonings in any Mexican cuisine and incorporate them into your spice blend.

Things like cumin, cayenne, paprika, and garlic powder are a must, but if you can get lucky enough to find some ancho or chipotle chili powder, throw those in as well.

To really amp up the intensity of your spice blend, why not try and use the fresh equivalents?

Whole cumin seeds, toasted in a dry pan over medium heat and then rushed in a food processor or a mortar and pestle are way better than preground spices.

Even more amazing is actually whole, dried chilis. Some dried ancho and chipotle peppers, with the stems and seeds, removed, chopped into bits, and toasted before being ground into a powder and used to make for an absolutely incredible Tex Mex spice blend.

Toppings for The Soup

You can top this with almost anything you want!

Have a couple of taco shells that you didn’t use up? Crunch them on top of the soup like crackers!
Avocadoes are amazing and my favorite
Shredded cheese melts perfectly on top
Tortilla chips of any kind are lovely on top
Chopped green onion

Looking for more delicious Main Meals? Try these out:

• Mexican Bean Breakfast Skillet

• Simple Mexican Coleslaw

• Crockpot Chicken Fajitas

Enjoy and happy cooking!

Love,

Karlynn