Instant Pot Chicken Enchilada Soup can be thrown together in a pinch and is ready to eat in about 30 minutes. Spicy and hearty, a big hit for your family!
Instant Pot Chicken Enchilada Soup
The more I use my Instant Pot, the more I love it. It is perfect for those nights when you are in a rush to get something on the table. For this Instant Pot Chicken Enchilada Soup, I literally dumped everything in the Instant Pot, set the timer, and let the machine do its thing. It turned out perfectly! This enchilada soup is creamy, cheesy, a little spicy, and absolutely scrumptious.
If you were reading over the recipe and wondering if it was okay to add the cream cheese to the Instant Pot, let me assure you, it is totally fine! The cream cheese won’t separate. It may need to be stirred in at the end but that’s it. Sour cream is a different story. Try not to add sour cream to the Instant Pot before cooking or it may separate and get a weird texture. If you want to add sour cream, it would probably be best to add it at the end in the individual bowls.
Suggestions for this IP Soup Recipe
- If you don’t have an actual “Instant Pot”, don’t fret. This simple recipe can be made EXACTLY the same in a pressure cooker. If your pressure cooker doesn’t have a “sauté” function you can just sauté the vegetables in a pan on the stove before adding everything to the pressure cooker.
- You can really use any kind of beans that you like for this recipe. I like black beans and chili beans but you can use pinto beans, red beans, Northern beans, or kidney beans.
- There’s literally no end to the toppings you can use for this yummy soup. Pile the soup high with avocado or guacamole, fresh diced tomatoes, tortilla crisps, cilantro or salsa. Be creative and make it however your family will like it best!
- To make this recipe gluten-free, you need to keep your eye on a couple things. First, the taco seasoning. Most taco seasonings contain gluten so make SURE that you are using GF taco seasoning. Also, you need to check your enchilada sauces. Many enchilada sauces have gluten in them so check your labels. Keep an eye on those two things and you are good to go!
More Yummy Instant Pot Recipes
Try a few of our very favorite Instant Pot classics. Your family will LOVE them!
- Easiest Instant Pot Meatballs
- Instant Pot Beef Goulash
- Sunday Pot Roast (Instant Pot Recipe)
- Instant Pot Chicken and Rice with Basil Cream Sauce
- Instant pot Chicken Cordon Bleu
How to Make Instant Pot Chicken Enchilada Soup
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 onion diced
- 1 red bell pepper diced
- 10 ounces red enchilada sauce
- 10 ounces green enchilada sauce
- 16 ounces chicken broth
- 15 ounces diced tomatoes
- 15 ounces black beans drained
- 15 ounces chili beans NOT drained
- 15 ounces corn drained
- 4 ounces diced green chiles
- 8 ounces cream cheese
- 3 chicken breasts
- 2 tablespoons taco seasoning
- 2 cups cheese shredded
- tortilla chips (optional)
- cilantro (optional)
Instructions
- Press the "sauté" function on the Instant Pot. Add oil, onions, and peppers.
- Saute until onions become soft and transparent.
- Add enchilada sauces, chicken broth, diced tomatoes, beans, corn, and chiles to the Instant Pot and stir until well mixed.
- Add cream cheese in spoonfuls into the Instant Pot. Add chicken breasts and sprinkle taco seasoning over top.
- Place lid on the Instant Pot and move tab to "sealing". Set Instant Pot to "manual" and cook on high pressure for 10 minutes.
- Allow to natural release for 10 minutes before doing a quick release.
- Remove lid from Instant Pot, shred chicken, and serve.
- Top individual servings with cheese, tortilla chips and cilantro.
Equipment
- 6-Quart Instant Pot Pressure Cooker (See Instant Pot Note Below)
Kathleen says
My family loves this recipe! One issue I have however is that my cream cheese clumps. I put it in spoonfuls but it just stays like that in the soup. Any suggestions?
Favorite Family Recipes says
I am glad you guys like it! One thing you can try is leaving the cream cheese on the counter for an hour to let it soften before adding it. That should help it incorporate better. Plus adding it by the spoonful should help as well after it is soft.
Mia Banks says
Fabulous! I find the Las Palmas canned enchilada sauces are better than the El Paso sauces in this recipe. I also used one bag of frozen white corn instead of canned. I make a batch and then freeze it so I can have homemade soup at lunch! Thank you for this awesome recipe!
Paige Boucher says
Do you cook the chicken first or are they raw?
Favorite Family Recipes says
The chicken goes in raw!
amber says
Do I have to use canned beans ? I have bagged beans but no soaked :/
Favorite Family Recipes says
You would need to soak the dried beans first.
Trudi says
Recipe looks delicious. It’s late and I’m being super lazy. Can I use a rotisserie chicken and pull meat off instead of chicken breasts?
Echo Blickenstaff says
Absolutely! I love using rotisserie chickens in recipes when I’m running short on time or energy!
Dianna says
I have made this several times and everyone loves it. It’s easy to make, hearty and delicious. It’s also great to freeze and eat another day.
Jen says
Is it possible to freeze the left over soup?
Favorite Family Recipes says
Absolutely!
Samantha says
This is my new favorite soup to make! I love the chicken enchilada soup from chili’s and this tastes exactly like it! So delicious and so easy to make. Thank you!!!!
Karlie Riegel says
This is my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE recipe for this soup. Thank you so much for sharing with us!!!!
Adrienne Knoll says
Hello there! I’m tried making this dish and kept getting the “burn notice.” I scraped the bottom of the pot each time and the third time added another cup of stock in case that was the problem- but still got the notice. Any advice?
Thanks!
Favorite Family Recipes says
I’ve noticed that some of the newer instant pots are more prone to the burn notice. I would try taking out the cream cheese and adding it in at the end. Or make sure that the sauce is totally covering the bottom under your chicken. Hope this helps!
Bee says
Not only is this a great Instant Pot recipe, it’s also low calorie! Yes.. I cannot wait to make this
Erica says
Thank you, Bee! Such a HUGE compliment coming from you! We love Rasa Malaysia– you have so many wonderful recipes, and gorgeous pictures!
Katie says
Is the calorie count above for the whole pot of soup?
Echo Blickenstaff says
Thank you for asking! We had the serving count wrong on this recipe. The recipe provides about 12 servings of soup at 301 calories per serving. This calorie count does not include optional toppings of cheese, tortilla strips, sour cream, etc.
Brandon says
When do you add the shredder cheese? Or am i missing it>?
Favorite Family Recipes says
It is the very last line in the recipe. You will actually add the shredded cheese to the individual bowls when serving. Hope this helps!
Sonja says
Does the chicken have to be put on the rack or trivet? I got burn
message once
Favorite Family Recipes says
We don’t usually put it on the rack, but if you are getting the burn message you can definitely try it that way!
Elissa says
Love this recipe! I always put the tomatoes on top of the chicken breasts and don’t stir. I never get a burn notice.
Rachel says
Is the cooking time set for thawed chicken breasts or frozen chicken breasts?
Favorite Family Recipes says
It is for thawed. If you do frozen, try adding 5 minutes. Hope this helps!
Lynn Raisor says
Can you make this in a crock pot?
Favorite Family Recipes says
Yes, this is the slow cooker version: https://www.favfamilyrecipes.com/our-version-of-cafe-zupas-chicken-enchilada-chili/
Kami Miller says
Love this! I did use hot Rotel instead of green chili’s and diced tomatoes. So good.
Donna Weitz says
Do you add both black beans and chili beans your instructions only say black beans.
Favorite Family Recipes says
Whoops, yes, both kinds of beans 🙂 I will fix it in the recipe. Thanks for the catch!
Ryan says
This sounds like it would go good with some rice in the soup. How would some one go about trying that out?
Erica Walker says
My favorite way to add rice to soup is to just have some cooked rice in each individual bowl and then pour the soup over the rice to cover. That way you know the rice is perfectly cooked. Hope this helps!