This is a fantastic soup for any time of the year, and it’s easy, easy, EASY – throw the ingredients into the slow cooker and walk away until supper time; my very favorite kind of meal.

Slow Cooker Southern BBQ Chicken Soup

This recipe requires very little prep time and is flexible.  If you don’t have all the veggie ingredients, don’t worry about it!  Just add what you have.  For example, I always like to add all 3 of the “pretty peppers”, but if you only have one or 2 colors, the soup will still taste great.

In a crock pot (slow cooker) add all the ingredients, except the chicken.

Stir it all together.  Put the lid on, and cook for 5-6 hours on low, or 2-3 hours on high.

While the soup is cooking, prepare your chicken.  There are a few options for this:

• left-over chicken from your fridge
• rotisserie chicken from your grocery store
• freshly cooked chicken, seasoned with BBQ sauce during the cooking phase

You can use as much or as little chicken as you want.  Just take the meat off the bones and chop it up into bite-size pieces.

Add the chicken about a 1/2 hour before serving.  The chicken doesn’t need to cook; it only needs to heat through.  If you put cooked chicken into the slow cooker at the beginning of the soup cooking process, you’ll end up with mushy, stringy chicken… not very tasty or pretty.

Once the chicken is warmed through, the soup is ready.

Serve the soup “naked”…

… or with a dollop of sour cream and a little fresh cilantro.

Either way, it’s delicous, and will warm you up, body and soul.

BBQ Chicken Soup in the Slow Cooker

An easy soup for the slow cooker, that is reminiscent of summer, with its BBQ flavour and fresh vegetables.

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Course Main Course, Soup

Servings 6 people

Ingredients

  

• 1 each chopped – red pepper, yellow pepper, orange pepper
• 1 onion chopped
• 2-3 stalks celery
• 1 medium zucchini chopped – unpeeled with seeds
• 2-3 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 cup cilantro roughly chopped
• 4-5 pieces cooked bacon chopped
• 1 can black beans drained and rinsed
• 1 can of corn drained (or 1 cup frozen corn)
• 4 cups chicken broth homemade or boxed
• 1 ml/28 fl oz can diced tomatoes
• 1 cup of your favorite BBQ sauce
• ½ – 1 tsp sea salt
• ½ tsp pepper
• Chicken – cooked and cut into bite sized pieces. You can use a rotisserie chicken left over chicken from your fridge, or freshly cooked chicken.

Instructions

 

• Combine all the ingredients, except chicken, in your slow cooker / crock pot. Cook on high for 3-4 hours or on low for 5-6 hours. About a ½ hour before eating, stir in the cooked, chopped chicken.
• Serve with a dollop of sour cream and a bit of fresh cilantro.

Keyword Slow Cooker, Soup