Easy Buffalo Chicken Soup
A super quick and easy take on a buffalo chicken soup that you will want to make over and over again. Ranch dressing mix, fresh garlic, cream cheese, and a rotisserie chicken make fast and tasty work of this absolutely fantastic soup.
- Yield: Serves 4
- Category: Soups
Ingredients
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- 1 store-bought rotisserie chicken, any flavor you like is fine
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 celery stalks, chopped
- 2 large carrots, thinly sliced
- 1 bell pepper (any color), diced
- 1/2 small onion, diced
- 2 garlic cloves
- 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour (cornstarch also works)
- 1 heaping tablespoon ranch dressing seasoning mix, plus more as desired (such as Hidden Valley Ranch)
- 3 teaspoons chicken stock concentrate
- 4 to 6 cups chicken stock (as needed)
- 3 tablespoons buffalo hot sauce (such as Franks Red Hot)
- 8 ounces cream cheese
Serving suggestions: tortilla chips, crumbled blue cheese, fresh celery, cilantro, scallions
Instructions
- Begin by pulling all of the meat from the bones of your chicken, discarding the skin. I usually pull and shred the meat with a fork, but chopping it works fine, too. Set this aside for now.
- Add the oil to a large pot over medium heat. Add the chopped celery, carrot, bell pepper, onion, and a small pinch of salt (the ranch mix is very salty, so is the hot sauce) to the pot and sauté until tender; about 5 to 7 minutes. Add the garlic and cook for one minute more.
- Sprinkle over the flour or cornstarch and cook for one minute, stirring to mix it all in. Add the ranch dressing mix, the chicken stock concentrate, 4 cups of the stock, and the buffalo sauce. Increase the heat a bit and bring the soup to a low boil. When it boils, reduce the heat to low and add the cream cheese, stirring to gently melt it into the soup.
- I taste it now and adjust things as needed. You might want to add more ranch into the mix, or Buffalo sauce. If you want to bulk it up more, you can add more stock. It might need salt and pepper – totally up to your preferences here! Let the soup simmer for just a couple of minutes to allow it to thicken slightly. Ladle into bowls and serve with all of your favorite toppings (I highly recommend tortillas chips or bread, crumbled blue cheese, fresh chopped celery, scallions, and/or cilantro).