Make this chorizo soup tonight! It's so delicious and easy to make. The Mexican chorizo adds a smoky, garlicky, and fiery flavor to the soup. A simple, crowd-pleasing soup recipe to warm up your winter and is a hit recipe for game day!
Chorizo Soup - The Perfect One-Pot Meal:
A hearty bowl of soup is great for a chilly night. It's loaded with nutritious vegetables and has high-in-fiber black beans. This comforting chorizo soup is the perfect one-pot meal to feed the whole family (my kids just love it!).
Chorizo Soup Ingredients:
To make this delicious Mexican-style soup, you will need beef chorizo, onion, carrot, celery, oregano, cumin, canned diced tomatoes, chicken broth, black bean, and corn.
What does this Chorizo soup taste like:
This chorizo soup tastes pretty similar to chili and a bit like minestrone. It has just the right amount of broth, not too thick but not too thin. The soup is so flavorful. It has a great balance of meat, beans, and vegetables all in one pot.
The broth has a vibrant red-orange hue color. Even though this soup is loaded with aromatic spices, it's not considered as a "spicy" soup. It’s a simple soup recipe that anyone can enjoy even small kids. That being said, you can always adjust spice levels up or down based on preference and audience.
Chorizo:
In this recipe, I used Mexican beef chorizo that I purchased from the local market. It's the same type of chorizo that I used to make this Mexican breakfast toast.
Chorizo sausage is available in many grocery stores. It usually comes in varieties of flavors to choose from, such as beef, pork, chicken, and turkey. No matter the variety they almost always have a lot of flavors, which makes it a favorite for me and my family.
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Beans:
Beans are packed with protein, fiber, vitamins, iron, and potassium. I used black beans because they go well with Mexican spices. I also like the consistency of black beans.
My husband and I are on a kick to add more beans to our recipe and it’s been a fun journey. I think that as a whole Americans need a lot more beans in their diets, and will be surprised at how much better a recipe tastes with beans added in.
For this recipe, I just used canned black beans that have been washed and rinsed prior to adding to the soup. By using canned beans, I was able to reduce at least one hour of cooking time.
Chorizo Soup
Ingredients
- 11 oz beef chorizo , (chasing removed or use ground)
- 1½ cups diced onion
- 1 cup diced carrots
- 1 cup diced celery
- 2 teaspoon Mexican oregano
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 14.5 oz fired roasted diced tomatoes, ( a can)
- 32 oz chicken broth
- 30 oz black beans, (washed and rinsed) - from 2 cans
- 1 cup frozen or fresh corn kernels
- ½ teaspoon salt
- black pepper to taste
Instructions
- In a large Dutch oven, cook and crumble the chorizo over medium heat for about 5 minutes or until cooked through.
- Transfer the cooked chorizo to a plate if you want to use all the grease into the soup, reserving 2 tablespoons drippings in the pot to cook the vegetables. If you want the soup to be less greasy, add in an extra step of first using a paper towel to reduce the amount of fat or grease from the chorizo.
- Cook the celery, carrots and onions in the dripping over low-medium heat until tender, about 8-10 minutes.
- Add Mexican oregano, cumin, and diced tomatoes. Keep stirring for 1 minute.
- Add broth. Increase the heat, simmer, uncovered for about 3 minutes.
- Add black beans and cook for an additional 3 minutes.
- Add the cooked chorizo to the pot and cook for an additional 3 minutes. Skim off the fat from the soup if necessary.
- Add corn the pot and continue cooking for an additional 3-5 minutes. Adjust seasoning with salt and pepper if needed.
- Turn off the heat, serve and enjoy!
Brianne Tursi Manz
I like this recipe, as well as the other recipes that you've shared. I can't wait to make this soon. We love soups this time of year.
Amber Myers
Yum, what great flavors. I love spicy foods, so this is perfect for me. I can't wait to try it!
melissa chapman
Chili lovers will love a different taste that is like their favorite food. The pictures look so hearty and warming so people will love this.
Tasheena
This recipe is cold for those cold winter nights. Looking forward to giving this recipe a try.
Natalie Jerebic
That looks so good! I am all about eating soup in the chillier months and love a hearty soup.
Michelle Cantu
This looks amazing. Pass me the tortilla chips and I could eat that entire pot.
Chef Dennis
This chorizo soup is making me hungry! Perfect for the cold nights. Will definitely serve this to my family.
Karen Morse
That's really nice! I love making different kinds of soup during the colder months of the year. It's perfect for the weather. Plus, chorizo is packed with flavor!
Kathy
This soup looks amazing. This is just what I could use right now too. I've been making a lot of soup lately.
Melissa Dixon
This looks so good. I would love to try this one out. What a yummy idea for this weekend.
Rena
This looks amazing! I've never had chorizo soup before but I can see it could be a new favorite of my family.
Lynndee
Soups are perfect at this time of year. I don't think I've ever had chorizo soup before, though. That looks good!
Fatima Torres
Chorizo soup is always a hit in our home. We love anything with chorizo, really
Star Traci
I have always wondered what chorizo is and now I know - thanks for sharing the recipe!
Amy H
I love soups and I love One Pot meals. This looks so good.
Jen
I needed a new way to use chorizo and this hit the mark! At first taste right when it was technically ready to go I was like "meh" but I let it hang out for a few more hours and that's when the magic happened because it was SO good! This soup was a huge hit with the fam! Next time I'm going to add even more chorizo! Thanks for a keeper of a recipe!
Rika Livingston
Hi Jen,
Thanks for sharing your feedback! I am glad to hear that this Chorizo soup was a huge hit with your family! I love the idea of adding even more chorizo on the next recipe! It sounds like a great plan!
Best,
Rika
Monti
My all time favorite, so so good, with fry bread or similar unbeatable
5 double stars
Rika
Hi Monti,
Your comment made my day! Thanks for trying and sharing your feedback. I am glad that you liked it.
Best,
Rika