Hi Mom,
I have another delicious recipe to share with you. I wanted to make a soup that tasted like an enchilada, had quinoa in it, and was made in the slow cooker. Done, done, and done. You place everything in the slow cooker. Turn it on, walk away, and come back later to the most delicious dinner your family has had in ages. I’m telling you, make this tonight. You’ll thank me! Make sure you run your quinoa under cold water to rinse it off before using. Rinse and then shake the excess water out before adding into soup.
Chicken Enchilada Quinoa Soup
This recipe serves four adults.
INGREDIENTS
1 pound boneless, skinless, chicken breasts
1 (15 ounce) can ranch-style beans (do not drain)
1½ cups quinoa (rinsed and drained)
1 (14 ounce) can enchilada sauce (I use mild)
1 (10 ounce) can Ro-Tel tomatoes
1 (4 ounce) can chopped green chiles
2 cups chicken stock
Salt and pepper
Green onions for garnish, chopped
Cheddar cheese for garnish, chopped
DIRECTIONS
Place the chicken breasts, beans, quinoa, enchilada sauce, tomatoes, chilies, stock, and a big pinch of salt and pepper in the bottom of the slow cooker. Cover and cook on low for 6 to 8 hours or on high for 3 to 4 hours.
When you’re ready to eat, remove the lid and shred the chicken inside the slow cooker using two forks. Next, ladle the soup into bowls and garnish it with green onions and cheese.
Mom, I hope you and your family enjoy this hearty soup. It’s perfect for enjoying on a crisp fall evening!
Your friend,
Shay
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Shay Shull is a blogger, author of several cookbooks, and a proud mama of four young children.
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I love soup, or chili in the fall.
My favorite fall food is pumpkin pie with a lot of spices added to it including extra cinnamon.
Hands down my favorite fall four is soup! I could eat soup everyday if my family would go along with it!
This recipe looks yummy! I love to make and eat soups in the fall.
My crockpot of 12 years just died! I love to make a southwest chili in the crockpot. 3 beans, green pepper, onions, corn and much more. Very hearty and delicious.
This looks delicious! I just had baby #3 on Tuesday and I’m looking for easy slow cooker meals- this will be perfect for the fall!
My favorite is ANYTHING made with fresh baked pumpkin!!!
What a great giveaway! This recipe sure looks delicious.
Favorite fall food is crock pot chili!! Would love some other crock pot soup ideas, though.
Sounds yummy! I can’t wait to try this recipe! Thank you! Some of my favorite Fall foods include apples and butternut squash. Chili is great to make in the Fall too 🙂
I love pumpkin bread!
My favorite fall food is probably stew! I love it’s heartin and versatility! This recipe sounds delicious too!
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Pumpkin roll
Vegetable Soup!
When fall season arrives, I crave hearty soups (like chili), caramelled apples, and pumpkin muffins.
my favorite fall food is pumpkin bread
I was JUST looking for a good slow cooker enchilada-style meal. It’s like YOU KNEW!!! This looks fantastic. Cannot wait to try this one out. 🙂
I love soup in the fall! Thanks for this!
My favorite fall food is chili so I can’t wait to try this version out!
sweet potato pie,warm apple cider drink ,and crock pot cooking like sweet potatoes in it.
I love hot spiced apple cider on a cool autumn day. Yummy hearty soup with crusty bread makes a great dinner – can’t wait to try this one!
Oh wow, my wife would love this. We love the foods of fall… roasted veggies, turkey, and, especially, pumpkin pie.
This look fabulous! I love crock pot recipes!
It’s so hard to pick just one! I love chili with cheese sour cream and chips, I love homemade soups, I love apple cake and I LOVE everything PUMPKIN! 🙂
I love everything with apples for fall, from butternut squash apple soup to apple crisp.
I really love soup or chili
My favorite fall food would be a slow roasted Italian pot roast.
This looks yummy! One of my favorite crockpot recipes is potato soup 🙂
Can’t wait to try this.
Excited to try this recipe!
My favorite fall foods are chili, Taco Soup, and Chicken & Dumplings. All made in a Crock-Pot.. yummy!!
Potato ham soup is my favorite!
I love pot roast so much! I recently made a Mississippi pot roast and a PICKLE pot roast! Oh my gosh they were both scrumptious!
I love chili in the slow cooker.
Soups and homemade bread!!
It’s chili season!! Yay!
Fall is a wonderful time for food .. chili, stews, soups … yummm I love love love loaded baked potato soup as an all time favorite.
I love a nice warm chili when it starts getting cooler. I also love pumpkin pie mmmm yummy!
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Tuscan zuppa soup.
My favorite fall food is pumpkin pie!
My favorite is green chili pork stew.
I love my hubby’s chili!!! YUMMY
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My favorite fall food is beef stew!!!
I love beef stew with potatoes and veggies!
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I LOVE french onion soups cooked in a crock pot ! I could eat that everyday !
Our family’s favorite fall food is definitely beef stew. We are always so busy this time of year, dinner being prepared when we get home is a must.
I love soups, stews and chili! Thank you for the chance to win!
My new favorite cake is gingerbread pumpkin.
I love soups!!!
I love apple crisp, beef stew and homemade chili for the fall weather.
sweet potato pudding
Great Article!
Chili of course
butternut squash is my fall food.
Love your blog!
Chili, stews and pot pies are my fall go-to meals.
I don’t really have a favorite. I can tell you what my favorite used to be. My Grandma’s beef vegetable soup. She spent all day making it and it was SO good. I can’t seem to make it the same way. I don’t even come close. I don’t know what that woman did, but I sure can’t seem to figure it out! Miss you Gma!
I love making protein pumpkin cookies or pumpkin oatmeal.
Carmel apples
When I think fall food, I always think soups in the crock pot. One of my family’s favorites is actually from Shay Shull! Her lasagna soup is super easy and delicious! She has a similar version with pepperonis in the soup and my kids love it!
This looks delicious and will be making it next week for sure! We are big chili eaters in the fall. (Like at least twice a month). Although, some days call for some chicken noodle soup.
I think our favorite is chili. It is something all of us enjoy.
Sounds yummy!
Any kind of soup, and I mean any kind!
I have several favorite fall foods all of which I like to cook slowly so this would be wonderful for me.
Beef stew and I make a wonderful vegetable stew. The veggie stew I put in carrots, celery, onion, basil, oregano, marjoram, garlic, peppers, rutabaga, turnip, parsnips and sweet potato sometimes- those have to added more toward the end of the cooking cycle so they do not melt away. I like to make this with chicken broth base but you can use water if you like and add lots of veggies to make the broth strong.
The last one I like to make is stuffed cabbage.
Beef stew, pot roast and chili are fall favorites
This recipe sounds wonderful! In the fall I love easy, warm, comforting meals. One of my favorites is potato soup!
i really like making pork chops and stuffing!
My favorite fall food is sweet potato casserole!!
Yum! Love the idea of adding quinoa in!
Stew and chili
Apples in anything!!!! The horses love this time of year too!!!! lol
chili
Stews and soups.
Soups. Stews. Pies. Hot chocolate. Food..love it all
Love chili with crackers and cheese melted! Yummy!
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Thank you for the giveaway!
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Coming from Illinois to South Mississippi I only have a short time when the weather is cool enough to cram in all the soups we love to eat!
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Id def have to go with. Beef stew. An. Also. Chili. Thanks for a awesome giveaway
My favorite fall food is cream of potato soup.
My favorite Fall food is vegetable soup. It never gets old to me!
fall is time for my famous chocolate pumpkin chili!
Basically anything pumpkin spice! Last year was my first year even trying it. I had never tried it before because pumpkin pie doesn’t look so good, but a friend of mine told me to try a pumpkin latte and I fell in love.
We love soups and using our Crockpot. Would love a newer one as my old one has a crack.
My favorite fall food are apples – especially haralson apples! Apples, applesauce, apple donuts, apple pull-apart bread and oh I could go on lol! 😀
love chili
I love pecan pie and roasted butternut squash
Our favorite fall food is lasagna and soups
Ham and Bean soup!
This recipe looks delicious
Chicken and noodles
A roast in the slow cooker is my go-to fall meal.
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I love lasagna!
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I love comfort foods like quiche for breakfast and hearty meals like Brunswick stew and pot roast and desserts would be cobblers especially Apple
Chili, stew, casseroles, and pumpkin chocolate chip cookies
I love loaded potato soup this time a year
Sweet potato soup
Homemade big pot meals like Pot-Pie, Chicken/Rice Soup, Pumpkin Pies, Hot Apple Cider, and Chicken Corn Soup
My favorite fall food is chili
I love making home made chicken soup.
Pumpkin pie
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I have two favorites apple and pumpkin pie.
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I recently received your cute cookbook in the mail and I can’t wait to try out the recipes! Thanks for the shopping lists
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Looks yummy!
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My favorite Fall food is my Pumpkin Spice Pull-Apart Bread that I make. I’ve already made two loaves for my office and they are still requesting more!
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Squash Soup!
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Cooked down potatoes
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YAS! All of the above! lol Chili, soups, mac n cheese! I’d love to win this! Our slow cooker gave out last fall season! TY so much for the chance! Have a blessed holiday season!
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