Black Bean Taco Soup

If I'm going to do soup as a meal, it's gotta be hearty and have a lot of ingredients.  This one looked really yummy:

Ingredients:
1 lb ground beef (or ground turkey tastes so good in this recipe too!)
1 medium onion, chopped
1 package mild taco seasoning mix
1 16 oz can corn (undrained)
1 16 oz can black beans, drained and rinsed (you could use kidney beans or pinto beans)
1 14 oz can stewed tomatoes
1 14 oz can diced tomatoes
1 8 oz can tomato sauce
1 4 oz can diced green chilis
tortilla chips
Other taco toppings you like (cheese, sour cream, avocado, etc)

Directions:
Brown meat and onion, drain.
Stir in taco seasoning, corn, black beans, tomatoes, tomato sauce, and green chilis. Simmer on low heat for 20 to 30 minutes.
Serve with tortilla chips and your favorite toppings.

This makes an easy freezer meal too! After cooking, let soup cool down and then dump into a gallon-sized Ziploc bag or other freezer container. When you want to eat it, let it thaw in the fridge for 24 hours and then simmer on the stove until heated all the way through or microwave until heated all the way through. You could also put it in your crock pot and cook on low for 2-3 hours to re-heat it.

I made it with ground turkey, and I totally recommend it.  It was delicious!  (And healthier!)  My kids and husband loved it too.  This recipe is definitely a keeper!

Oh, and I actually used a crock pot for this!  You certainly don't have to, but after cooking the meat and onion I just threw it in a crock pot with all the other ingredients, gave it a good stir, and set it to "low" for about a half an hour.  Then I set it to "warm" and I had plenty of freedom as to when to serve it.