Million Dollar Soup
This milion dollar soup is creamy, cheesy, rich, and savory, and yet uses convenient rotisserie chicken, and easy canned soups to create the base. Garnish with crushed Ritz crackers, sliced green onion, crumbled bacon, and Cheddar cheese, and yes, you will feel like you have stumbled into a fortune.
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1/2 onion chopped
- 2 stalks celery chopped
- salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
- 2 cups diced Yukon Gold potatoes
- 1 can condensed cream of chicken soup
- 1 can Cheddar cheese soup
- 4 cups chicken broth
- 1 tablespoon Cajun seasoning
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- 4 cups chopped rotisserie chicken or more to taste
- 5 strips bacon cooked and chopped
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1/2 cup shredded creamy mozzarella cheese
Garnish
- 1/4 cup shredded Cheddar cheese
- cooked and crumbled bacon
- scallions sliced
- buttery round crackers such as Ritz®, crushed
Instructions
- Melt 2 tablespoons butter in a large pot over medium heat. Add onions and celery and cook until tender, 4 to 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
- Add potatoes, cream of chicken, Cheddar cheese soup, and broth to the pot and season with Cajun seasoning, garlic powder, and onion powder. Simmer for 5 minutes. Add chicken and bacon to the soup.
- Reduce heat to low, and simmer, stirring occasionally, 15 to 20 minutes more. Stir in sour cream and creamy mozzarella; remove from heat.
- Serve garnished with shredded Cheddar, bacon, scallions, and crushed Ritz crackers.