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buffalo chicken soup

Creamy Buffalo Chicken Soup

5 from 104 votes
Cozy up with a warm bowl of Creamy Buffalo Chicken Soup. Made with lots of veggies, hot sauce, and cream cheese, this is a soup that's just as satisfying as it is filling! Top with blue cheese, green onion, and tortilla chips for extra flavor.
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Servings: 8 cups
Course: dinner, gluten-free, lunch, Main Course, meal-prep, Soup
Cuisine: American
Calories: 278

Ingredients
  

  • 2 tbsp ghee or butter
  • 1/2 white onion diced
  • 5 carrots sticks sliced into coins
  • 5 celery sticks diced
  • 4 heaping cups cauliflower cut into florets
  • 2 cloves minced garlic
  • 1 tbsp dried parsley
  • 1 tsp garlic powder
  • 1 tsp onion powder
  • 1 tsp dried dill
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp pepper
  • 4 cups chicken stock
  • 1/3 cup Frank's Red Hot Sauce
  • 4 large chicken breasts about 3 lbs
  • 4 oz cream cheese softened (can be dairy free)
  • optional toppings: blue cheese green onion, tortilla chips

Method
 

  1. Prepare all veggies by washing and chopping.
  2. In a large dutch oven or sauce pot, heat ghee over medium-high heat. Once melted, add onion, carrots, celery, and cauliflower. Let cook about 6-8 minutes or until beginning to soften. 
  3. Add in garlic. Then add in spices: parsley, garlic powder, onion powder, dried dill, salt and pepper. Mix until well combined.
  4. Pour in chicken stock and hot sauce. Then add 4 chicken breasts and submerge in liquid. 
  5. Bring pot to a boil, and once boiling, cook 12 minutes.
  6. Take chicken out after 12 minutes and set aside. Ladle a little more than half of the soup into a blender (including half of the cauliflower, carrots, celery, and broth) and blend until smooth.
  7. Pour blended mixture into remaining soup broth. 
  8. Add in cream cheese and whisk until melted.
  9. Cut chicken into small pieces and add back into soup.
  10. Let simmer for 10 minutes over medium-low heat, then serve.
  11. Top with green onion, blue cheese, tortilla chips and more hot sauce if desired.

Nutrition

Calories: 278kcalCarbohydrates: 10gProtein: 29gFat: 13gSaturated Fat: 6gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 4gTrans Fat: 0.01gCholesterol: 100mgSodium: 830mgPotassium: 725mgFiber: 1gSugar: 5gVitamin A: 6621IUVitamin C: 5mgCalcium: 47mgIron: 1mg

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Notes

  • Don't Skip the Blending Step: Ladling just over half the soup into a blender and blending it smooth before adding it back to the pot is what gives this soup that incredible thick, creamy texture everyone goes crazy for. 
  • Soften the Cream Cheese: Make sure your cream cheese is softened before adding it to the pot so it whisks in smoothly without any lumps. Cold cream cheese takes forever to melt and can leave you with little chunks throughout the soup.
  • Don't Skimp on Toppings: Blue cheese crumbles, sliced green onion, a drizzle of extra hot sauce, and a handful of tortilla chips for crunch take this soup from delicious to absolutely next level. Don't skip them!

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