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Home » Instant Pot » Creamy Chicken Taco Soup (Instant Pot)

Creamy Chicken Taco Soup (Instant Pot)

Published: Dec 26, 2020 · Modified: Dec 31, 2020 by WholeLottaYum · This post may contain affiliate links · Find our privacy policy here

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A chicken taco soup Instant Pot recipe that’s so creamy and easy, just sauté the onion, dump the ingredients, and pressure cook for 5 minutes! The Instant Pot taco chicken soup is loaded with veggies and protein, plus it’s simple to make this dairy-free or low carb too. It’s a WHOLE LOTTA YUM!

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Instant Pot Chicken Taco Soup

All sorts of Mexican inspired recipes are popular in our home, but making an Instant Pot chicken taco soup is definitely one of our favorites! Well, I should say we go back and forth between making it as a chicken taco soup and swapping the chicken for beef.

This Instant Pot chicken taco soup recipe is a variation of our popular crockpot taco soup recipe with beef! Both are seriously amazing!

Sometimes we add the dairy, other times we skip it when we’re attempting to eat a little lighter.

The recipe as written makes this a gluten-free chicken taco soup, and it’s super easy to adapt to any sort of dietary concern whether it be dairy-free by skipping the cream cheese and cheddar or making it low carb and sugar-free.

Why You’ll Love This Recipe

  • Making taco soup in an Instant Pot means being able to dump all of the ingredients in the pot and then being able to walk away. So easy!
  • The chicken taco soup Instant Pot recipe is super simple to customize and swap ingredients.
  • With a pressure cook time of just 5 minutes, you’ll get a delicious pot of soup that didn’t have to simmer on the stove for hours.
  • You get your family’s favorite flavors of Mexican food but as a healthy and hearty soup!

Looking for more Mexican soup recipes? Be sure to try our crockpot beef taco soup, Instant Pot white chicken chili, or our Mexican chicken Instant Pot recipe!

Ingredient Notes

instant pot taco chicken soup ingredients on a white tray

The chicken taco soup Instant Pot ingredients are super easy to customize. Don’t have canned corn or beans? Skip them or substitute a different type! Don’t have chicken thighs but do have chicken breast meat? Use that instead!

  • boneless skinless chicken thighs, cubed – chicken breast can be used instead of thighs
  • cream cheese
  • shredded cheddar cheese or 3 cheese blend
  • Rotel diced tomatoes with green chilis
  • canned corn kernels, drained
  • canned black beans – other types of beans can be swapped like pinto or kidney beans
  • chicken broth
  • taco seasoning
  • large onion, diced
  • green bell pepper, diced
  • garlic salt
  • ground pepper
  • optional garnishes – shredded cheese, sour cream, avocado, cilantro

Variations

Recipe Variations– This is easy to make as a beef taco soup too! Just cook 1.5 lb of ground beef before making the recipe, add it to the pot when you add the vegetables, and pressure cook it for 5 minutes.

Equipment

A Pressure Cooker – This is the 6 qt Instant Pot model that we used. 

Diet Adaptions

  • Keto – skip the corn and beans and increase the chicken to 1 lb. Be sure to use full-fat dairy products and use tomatoes and taco seasoning that don’t add sugar.
  • Dairy-free – leave out the cream cheese and cheddar cheese.

Step by Step Instructions

While this isn’t quite a dump and go recipe, the chicken taco soup Instant Pot recipe is simple. Just sauté the onion, add the other ingredients, give it all a good stir, and pressure cook! Stir in the cream cheese and cheese at the end before serving. YUM!

Sauté the Onion

Turn the Instant Pot to sauté High and heat the olive oil.

Add the diced onion and cook it until softened, for about 3-4 minutes. Turn the pot off by pressing the Cancel button.

Add the Other Ingredients

Add the chicken broth to the pot and stir the bottom of the pot to remove any onion bits that might be stuck to the bottom.

Add the chicken, black beans, Rotel, corn, green pepper, taco seasoning, garlic salt, and black pepper. Stir to combine.

Pressure Cook

Put the lid on the pot. Cook the soup on Manual High for 5 minutes – some pots call this setting Pressure Cook. The pot will take about 15-20 minutes to come to pressure.

Once the soup is done cooking under pressure, do a Natural Release for 10 minutes before releasing the remaining pressure from the pot.

Stir in Dairy

Add the cubed cream cheese and stir until it breaks down and is well combined into the soup.

Serve with optional garnishes such as shredded cheddar, sour cream, tortilla chips, avocado, chopped tomatoes, salsa, olives, jalapenos, cilantro, or chives.

Recipe Tips

  • Prep all ingredients before you start cooking. The recipe goes quickly and most of the ingredients just get dumped in the pot.
  • The cream cheese needs to be at room temperature or it won’t fully break down into the soup. Cutting the cream cheese into cubes works best. To quickly soften the cream cheese, cut into large cubes, and soften in the microwave for 30 seconds.
  • We used cubed chicken thighs, but cubed chicken breasts can also be used. To make a shredded chicken soup, cook the chicken breasts whole in the soup and pressure cook for 15 minutes, remove the whole breasts, shred them and add them back to the pot.
  • Some taco seasoning brands are very spicy. If you have a brand that’s spicy we suggest cutting the taco seasoning back to 2 Tbsp in the recipe.
  • To make the Instant Pot chicken taco soup low carb, increase the chicken to 2 lbs and skip the canned corn and black beans.
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Common Questions

What to serve with chicken taco soup?

With most of the food groups in the chicken taco soup Instant Pot recipe, all you need is a side salad and some cornbread or rolls!

How can I make this a shredded chicken soup?

If you have whole chicken breasts and are wanting to make a shredded chicken taco soup, leave them whole in the recipe and pressure cook the soup for 20 minutes. Remove the chicken to shred it and then add it back to the soup.

How long does it keep?

The Instant Pot Mexican soup will keep in the fridge for up to 5 days.

More Instant Pot Chicken Soups

  • Instant pot chicken bacon ranch soup
  • Pressure cooker chicken noodle soup
  • Instant pot white chicken chili
  • Pressure cooker chicken posole recipe
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    Creamy Instant Pot Chicken Taco Soup

    Yield: 8 servings
    Prep Time: 10 minutes
    Cook Time: 15 minutes
    Additional Time: 20 minutes
    Total Time: 45 minutes

    An easy and creamy chicken taco soup recipe in an Instant Pot that's full of goodness and easy to adapt to dairy-free or low carb. Top with your favorite garnishes like sour cream, cheese, cilantro, and crushed tortilla chips.

    Ingredients

    • 1 1/2 lb boneless skinless chicken thighs, cubed
    • 1 8 oz pkg cream cheese, softened (and cut into cubes)
    • 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese or 3 cheese blend
    • 2 10oz cans Rotel diced tomatoes with green chilis
    • 1 15oz can corn kernels, drained
    • 1 15oz can black beans, drained and rinsed
    • 32 oz chicken broth
    • 3 T taco seasoning
    • 1/2 large onion, diced
    • 1 large green bell pepper, diced
    • 1/2 tsp garlic salt
    • 1/4 tsp ground pepper
    • Optional garnishes - shredded cheese, sour cream, avocado, cilantro

    Instructions

    1. Turn the Instant Pot to Saute High and heat the olive oil. Add the diced onion and cook it until softened, for about 3-4 minutes. Turn the pot off by pressing the Cancel button.
    2. Add the chicken broth to the pot and stir the bottom of the pot to remove any onion bits that might be stuck to the bottom.
    3. Add the chicken, black beans, Rotel, corn, green pepper, taco seasoning, garlic salt, and black pepper. Stir to combine.
    4. Put the lid on the pot. Cook the soup on Manual High for 5 minutes, some pots call this setting Pressure Cook. The pot will take about 15-20 minutes to come to pressure. Once the soup is done cooking under pressure, do a Natural Release for 10 minutes before releasing the remaining pressure from the pot.
    5. Add the cubed cream cheese and stir until it breaks down and is well combined into the soup.
    6. Serve with optional garnishes such as shredded cheddar, sour cream, tortilla chips, avocado, chopped tomatoes, salsa, olives, jalapenos, cilantro, or chives.

    Notes

    The cream cheese needs to be at room temperature or it won't fully break down into the soup. Cutting the cream cheese into cubes also works best. To quickly soften the cream cheese, cut it into large cubes, and soften it in the microwave for 30 seconds.

    We used cubed chicken thighs, cubed chicken breasts can also be used. To make a shredded chicken soup cook the chicken breasts whole in the soup and pressure cook for 15 minutes, remove the whole breasts, shred them and add them back to the pot.

    Some taco seasoning brands are very spicy, if you have a brand that's spicy we suggest cutting the taco seasoning back to 2 Tbsp in the recipe.

    To make the Instant Pot chicken taco soup low carb, increase the chicken to 2 lbs and skip the canned corn and black beans.

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    Comments

    1. Rick says

      January 13, 2021 at 10:24 pm

      Your ingredients include a cup of shredded cheddar, but it isn’t called for in the recipe instructions. Is it included for garnish only?

      Reply
      • WholeLottaYum says

        January 19, 2021 at 1:10 am

        Yes! Thank you for clarifying, we used the extra 1 cup as a garnish spread between numerous bowls.

        Reply
    2. Lynda S Reich says

      December 30, 2020 at 4:24 am

      I don’t have a pressure cooker. What else can I use to make this taco soup?

      Reply
      • WholeLottaYum says

        January 03, 2021 at 12:45 am

        Hi Lynda, here’s our crockpot taco soup with beef (stove-top included too)…it’s VERY similar but uses beef instead of the chicken and adds corn and beans. No need to sear the chicken like the beef, just add it raw and then follow the rest of the instructions. 🙂 https://wholelottayum.com/low-carb-taco-soup/

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