Crock Pot Low-Carb Taco Soup – Keto Taco Soup
Keto Taco soup combines hamburger or sausage, cream cheese, and Rotel with seasoning and broth for a low-carb Mexican meal. This keto soup recipe is literally like queso dip you can eat with a spoon without judgment. Whether you are eating low-carb, gluten-free, or a keto diet, this crock pot low-carb taco soup is sure to leave all loving it regardless of if you are on a diet or not.
I love easy recipes that don’t take a ton of steps, dishes, or hard-to-find ingredients. I think this is why I was drawn to a simple taco soup recipe. This crock pot low-carb taco soup needs five simple ingredients and a few hours of simmering to give you an amazing soup for lunch or supper. But if you are short on time or an Instant Pot user over a crockpot, I have the Instant Pot Low-Carb Taco Soup too.
Keto Taco Soup Ingredients
Five ingredients. Well, five if you lump spices into one ingredient. Here is the thing with this soup, use the seasonings you like. But here is the base ingredients.
- Ground Pork – Ground pork is my favorite in this dish. If you can’t find this you can use a combination of ground beef and chorizo or even just ground beef.
- Rotel – The canned tomatoes and chiles are perfect for this dish. In a pinch, you can also just use canned tomatoes.
- Cream Cheese – Dairy goods are my comfort food on low-carb diets. Full-fat cream cheese is best in this recipe.
- Chicken Broth – Chicken broth or a combination of roasted chicken Better than Bouillon and water works to make this low-carb soup. Beef broth can also be used in place of chicken broth.
- Taco Seasonings – Traditional taco seasoning can carry extra carbs. I use a combination of adobo seasoning, chili powder, and cilantro. The cilantro can be fresh or dried.
- Shredded Cheese – Topping off the taco soup with shredded cheese is the ultimate topping or garnish.
How to make Low-Carb Crock Pot Taco Soup
Start by browning sausage. I recommend a combination of hot sausage or ground pork with hamburger. You can easily use breakfast sausage in this or even all ground beef. While the meat is browning, fill your crock pot with cream cheese, Rotel, and taco seasonings of your choice.
When it comes to taco seasonings, I made up my own with garlic salt, adobo seasoning, and chipotle pepper powder. You could use just taco seasoning in your meat like you are making tacos. However, check the carb count if you are a carb counter!
Mix the browned meat into the cheese, Rotel, and seasoning and spices you had to a crock pot set to high. Stir to combine and then pour in chicken broth. You may want to add a little broth at a time to determine how thin you like your soup. Cook on high for two to three hours or low for four to six hours.
As one of my friends who tried this recipe said, it is like soupy queso! Seriously, does life get any better than eating queso with a spoon and getting away with it? Besides being full of cream cheese, I went ahead and topped it with shredded cheese and stirred in some dried cilantro before serving. Avocado, sour cream and onion would also be a great addition to the top of this soup. If you have fresh cilantro, feel free to use fresh too. If you have people not trying to be low-carb, go ahead and let them use tortilla chips too.
Go ahead and make yourself a bowl of low carb crock pot taco soup. You won’t regret it! If you love this recipe, don’t miss out on the Instant Pot Low-Carb Taco Soup too.
Variations to Crock Pot Low Carb Taco Soup
This ground beef or pork based taco soup can be changed up to add some variety to your taco soup cravings.
- Chicken Taco Soup – Substitute ground chicken or even shredded chicken for ground beef for a low-carb chicken taco soup.
- Spicy Low-Carb Taco Soup – Add jalapeno slices or a teaspoon of red pepper flakes to the soup to spice it up.
- With Carbs – If you have carb eaters who can live on protein and fat alone, add cooked rice to the soup to make it a bit heartier.
Storing Leftover Low Carb Taco Soup
This soup is great for leftovers. You can absolutely keep this soup in the refrigerator or freezer.
- Refrigerate leftover soup – For up to three days reheat this soup in the microwave in the 30 second increments.
- Freeze low carb taco soup – Place in a large freezer bag to reheat as a large batch or in 1 cup individual servings. Free for up to three months.
Keto Soup Recipe Tips
Just starting on the adventure of low-carb dieting? Here are a few of our tips, meal plans, and recipes.
- Don’t Use Low-Fat Ingredients – It is tempting to grab that low-fat cream cheese, but fat is needed to make keto work. In this keto taco soup, it is no different.
- Seasoning can have fillers – Read labels even on your seasonings. A lot of taco seasonings have fillers. This is why making a homemade version might be the best route.
- Xanthan for thickening – If you want to thicken up the taco soup, use xanthan gum powder.
Low-Carb Soup Recipes
Soup is one of the easiest ways to eat low-carb. There is always a keto soup recipe I am inventing to keep things interesting.
FAQ
Yes! This can easily be made in a dutch oven on the stove top. Follow the instructions the same but cook over low heat with the lid on. Stir every five minutes or so to be sure it is not burning.
Chicken is a great substitute for traditional taco meat soup. Shredded chicken or grilled and cut-up chicken will both work in this recipe.
Crock Pot Low-Carb Taco Soup
Ingredients
- 2 lbs ground pork beef or sausage
- 2 8-ounce packages of cream cheese
- 2 10-ounce cans of Rotel
- 1 Tablespoons Adobo Seasoning or Taco seasoning
- 2 teaspoons ancho chili powder
- 4 cups chicken broth
- 1-2 tablespoons Cilantro – fresh or dried optional
- 1/2 cup shredded cheese for garnish optional
Instructions
- Season meat with half the adobo or taco seasoning. Brown ground meat until fully cooked.
- While meat is browning, place cream cheese, Rotel, and adobo or taco seasoning into crock pot.
- Drain any grease off of meat and put meat in the crock pot. Stir to combine with cheese and Rotel.
- Pour chicken broth over meat and cheese.
- Cook on low for 4 hours or high for 2 hours.
- Before serving stir in cilantro.
- Garnish with shredded cheese.
Video
Notes
- 1 serving is approximately a cup and a half of soup.
- Use Xanthan Gum if you want a thicker soup.
- Spice this low-carb taco soup up with a teaspoon of red pepper flakes.
Nutrition
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Ooops, I forgot to rate it. Five Stars. Yep, final answer: five stars!
Wonderful recipe! I use packaged mild taco packet, precooked breakfast sausage cut into small pieces, regular canned tomatoes and lo-sodium chicken stock – we love the result (and, it’s easy – I’m not much of a cook and I can make this successfully).
This is our new favorite low carb soup, so glad we found it!
I make this a lot in the winter time. Itโs so simple and easy to make. Everyone enjoys it! Even people I make it for that do not follow low carb or keto.
Very tasty. Perfect winter soup.
Great Flavor and easy to make! Loved it!
I am not sure why this needed to cooked in a crockpot for 2-4 hrs. My stove-top version was delish!
It definitely can be made stove top. I love the make it and forget it approach so I can leave the house and know it will be ready when I get home.
How much does one serving measure? One cup?
You will get closer to 12 cups of soup total. A serving will be more like a cup and a half.
I love this soup!! My question isโฆ do you know how I can do it quicker in the instant pot? Thanks
A little confused here. It says use adobo OR taco seasoning. But then in the directions it says both. I wanted to use the adobo for both the meat and crockpot, so do I do the 1/2 TBSP in meat then 1/2 TBSP in crockpot?
Yes. Sorry, I will clean those directions up. I use half in the meat and then half in the soup. So yes, roughly a half tablespoon in both places. I then taste to make sure I don’t need more seasoning for my liking.
Why do you cook it so long.. especially with dairy in it?
It takes that long for my cream cheese to melt and get incorporated throughout. If you can do it faster, go for it.
Oh my god we love this soup! ๐ฅฃ This is my third time making it in probably 6 weeks. Itโs that good. We use hot sausage and ground Turkey, as well as hot rotel. So good!
So easy and delicious!!!!
Can this Keto Taco Soup be frozen? Haven’t made it yet, but it sounds amazing? i would like to eat it and freeze the rest for another day.
Easy and very delicious!
When you figure in the nutritional value per serving, I am presuming the cheese isn’t figured in? When I calculate the ingredients in Carb Manager, with everything to be divided over 8 servings I come up with 8g net carbs (11 total), 4 grams fiber, 38 grams of protein, 42 grams of fat, and 572 calories. I’m not fussing, it looks absolutely delicious. I’m just a stickler about tracking and wanted to figure out where/how my calculations ended up being so different from those listed above. Thank you!
Absolutely delicious, and so easy!! Thank you for sharing!!!
Loved it!
I’m just curious about the texture of this soup. At the beginning of the video, the texture looks much thicker and cheesier than the end product from the slow cooker which is ‘watery’. Why do the textures different? The thicker version looks delish! ๐
My husband can’t have tomatoes or hot sauce so are there any suggestions as to what might work for him?
Neufchรขtel cheese (shown in picture) is used and should probably be listed in the ingredients list. It is way less carbs than regular cream cheese. That being said, I loved this recipe and so did my family. I used Salsa Style tomatoes instead of the Rotel brand toms/chilies and it was super good. I will definitely make this again!
I cant wait to try it with ground turkey.
Could you please define the “serving size” of the low carb taco soup recipe?
BEST keto Taco Soup!! It was delicious!!
My edits: I used rotel Mexican Style with cilantro & lime. I also purรฉed the rotel cause I donโt like chunks of tomatoes. Used one lb deer burger & one lb sausage. I used the stir-in paste Cilantro. Added more taco seasoning. Garnished with fresh squeezed lime juice & cheese.
Hi, I thought this recipe looked good, but I wanted to spice it up a bit. So, I used 1 lb of ground beef and 1 lb of beef chorizo. I also added an onion (chopped) and some garlic. lastly, I added a can of chopped green Chile. It was really good. I loved this recipe, and my husband loved it too! ** as a topper I added some thin tortilla strips along with cilantro.
i used half and half pork and beef and used spicy taco seasoning as well as crushed red chili flakes.
husband ate 2 bowls in one go ( good thing he isnt keto like me! ) i also made it on the stove vs. the crock pot and simmered for 45 mins,
would this freeze well? i was hoping so for meals when i have no time to cook .
Just starting with low-carb diet and found this delicious recipe. This will be a staple, for sure! Super easy, meaty, and full of flavor. Didn’t have Rotel, so used diced tomatoes and jalapenos, which worked well. Although it’s great without, I added some cheddar and sour cream to finish. Would be a great dish to bring to a party, as well.
This is a recipe that just keeps on going. We love it. Us being only a family of two, we have had so many meals out of this and I still made up a couple of portions for the freezer. It’s so rich and so filling, you only need a small bowl to feel satiated. This recipe is a keeper!
This is so good. Taco soup was a staple in our house before we started keto. I wasn’t sure it would be good without beans and corn but it is! Only change I made was that I added 2 pablanos and some jalapeรฑo for kick. Was soooo good! Making a batch this week to freeze as the kedtivers last time I made it froze so well!!
Leftovers I mean
When I entered all the ingredients into carb manager with 8 servings, it says 9 net carbs. Once I make it, Iโll have to figure out what 1 serving is. If it makes 8 cups, that will be a 1 cup serving. Just wonโt know until it.
It actually makes 12 cups, so 1.5 cups is 9 net carbs. That is with breakfast sausage and homemade taco seasoning since package stuff has sugar.
Definitely one of the best soups I’ve ever had .. thanks for sharing!
So glad you loved it!
I have made this a couple times now and every time my cream cheese is chunky.. it never fully dissolves… what am I doing wrong? Other than that this recipe is amazing!
Made this with turkey sausage for dinner tonight! In case anyone is curious, my individually counted macros are 346 calories, 27 g fat, 19.4 g protein, 4.5 net carbs (5.1 total) per serving. Delicious! Thank you for the recipe!
Tried this today and loved it! I didn’t have cilantro, used only one can of Rotel (less carbs), and used ground beef. I prepared in my instant pot, instead of a crockpot. (Manual setting for 25 minutes.) Turned out perfect! A added a little shredded cheddar and a little dollop of sour cream to my bowl. Delicious!!!
Will ground Italian sausage work or is it referring to breakfast sausage? Also does anyone know if it will taste okay with 1 pound ground beef and 1 pound sausage mix??
Can I cut this recipe in half or would it ruin the results? Looks great!!!
Can this be frozen?
I am so sorry but this low carb soup is not good. I followed your recipe and its inedible. To someone that’s starving from low carb eating, I’m ready to eat anything off a boot. Only thing that made it so I could eat it was adding Dreamfields macaroni to it. And I know the rage about them.
I see the Penzeys Spices in the background and love those!
Definitely a winner with this Taco Soup. Absolutely delicious! Great flavor and so easy to make. I added sliced mushrooms to mine and i used 1 can of rotel and 1 can of diced seasoned tomatoes. Awesome! Thanks for sharing this fabulous recipe.
Could you present your nutritional info in grams instead of vague “servings”? Other than that good recipe. Thanks.