About Our AUSTINTACIOUS TORTILLA SOUP
- 1 Serving Meal
- Dietary Considerations: meat dish (chicken); gluten conscious; dairy-optional (cheese packaged separately)
- all-natural ingredients
- 380 calories
- 27 g protein
- Meal Net Weight: 3.6 oz | 107 g
- Meal Includes: seasoned soup mix; corn tortilla bits with cheese packet
- Required: boiling water
- Recommended: long-handled spoon; Cook-in-Cozy™
Remove
chips & cheese packet and natural desiccant from main meal pouch.
Add
1-1/2 cups (12 oz / 355 ml) of boiling water to the pouch and stir.
Press
air from pouch; seal and shake.
Top
with tortilla chips & monterey jack cheese
ENJOY!
your Austintacious Tortilla Soup!
Ingredients & Nutrition
Ingredients:
White Rice, Whole Black Beans, Cage-Free Chicken, Tortilla Chips (stone ground white corn, corn oil, lime), Monterey Jack Cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), Organic Fire-Roasted Yellow Corn, Organic Whole Kernel Yellow Corn, Organic Tomatoes, Tomato Pepper (garlic salt, organic tomato, annatto, garlic granules, cilantro), Turkey Stock, Spices, Organic Chicken Stock, Red and Green Bell Peppers, Green Chiles, Organic Yellow Onion, Lime Juice, Cilantro, Purple Shallots
Special Notes:
CONTAINS: Milk
PROCESSED IN A FACILITY THAT HANDLES WHEAT, EGG, MILK, SOYBEAN, PEANUT AND TREE NUT PRODUCTS.
This meal includes an optional packet of tortilla chips & cheese to top your meal. Our tortilla chips & cheese are packaged in a separate pouch so that customers are able to opt out of consuming the following ingredients:
Tortilla Chips (stone ground white corn, corn oil, lime), Monterey Jack Cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes)
Press Articles
Put this meal on the menu for any trip: It’s easy-prep trail food that will wow every palate...
The tastiest trail soup we've ever eaten.
Sure, everything tastes better in camp. So we tried this dehydrated meal at home too, just to confirm our field findings. It is delicious. The soup is the perfect appetizer for hungry troops, a satisfying belly warmer in cold weather and substantial enough to pass for dinner when only a light meal is needed. Plus, it takes only 10 minutes to prepare. Ingredients are simple: chicken breast, red peppers, corn, tomatoes, cilantro, spices and rice. But the result is gourmet. “It tastes like it’s been simmering in the kitchen all day,” summed up one satisfied tester. Serving size is legit for two hungry guys, and it comes with toppings that make it easy to customize according to taste: freeze-dried Monterrey Jack, tortilla chips, Tabasco sauce and lime juice.
— Backpacker Magazine Editors' Choice/Gear Guide, Spring 2009
frequently asked questions
We recommend that all of our hot meals spend time "steep-cooking™" while snuggled in a Cook-in-Cozy™. We find this method promotes a more consistent temperature and steady cook time for Cook-in-Bag™ preparation; and results in a better serving temperature for your meal. When not in use, our Cook-in-Cozy™ folds away nicely in your pack for storage and weighs in at only 1.4oz.
Reviews (38)
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Tasty, filling, easy. This is a hardy soup not a thin broth so it is a true meal. Every trip my son asks for this on specifically so I know he likes it. I love the zing of the lime and the heat of the hot sauce it is much more than salt of many soups.
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Stove used: MSR Simmerlite I am not a soup person during the summer. It is just too hot on most evenings to enjoy a soup and during lunch time it is just too blazing hot to think about it. I finally broke down and gave this meal a try on an evening in the Sam Houston National Forest. I cooked up the soup in my small pot, poured some into my cup and sat back and watched the sun set. Give me a cold afternoon and this would have been the perfect lunch or a great appetizer on a cold night before dinner. I just wanted to do a little dance after adding the lime juice/flavor packet to the soup. This meal was a perfect example of how Packit Gourmet handles their meals. They take something comfortable and easy to prepare and add just enough zing to make it a step above any other trail meals that I have used. While I would not claim that this was a meal by itself, at least at dinner time, it would make a great breakfast or lunch on a cold day. A great vista to enjoy while sipping would just be an added extra. Originally posted on BackpackGearTest http://www.backpackgeartest.org
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Ordered soup on Friday night, got it Tuesday. That's fast!! Tried tortilla soup as soon as I received it. It's great !! I always test a new product at home before hitting the trail. I'll take it with me to Mogollon rim, Arizona this weekend. Packing and fishing. I'm looking forward to eating tortilla soup in the back country.
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BEST EVER ! We don't go backpacking without it. Do yourself a favor, buy it and enjoy ! Happy Trails.....
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This is my #1 favorite backcountry meal. When I take someone backpacking for the first time this is my go-to meal.
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Austintacious indeed!! So good. I can eat soup all day every day and this one hits the spot after a long hike!! Great if you have extra corn chips too.
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'm not a big soup eater on the trail, so I was blown away when I tried a Packit Gourmet's Tortilla Soup last week (2.7 oz) on a long backpacking trip. I made this meal on one of those nights when I was too tired to invest much energy in making an elaborate dinner. So instead, I just boiled a small pot of water on my alcohol stove, poured in the dry ingredients with a pack of savory choice chicken broth concentrate and let them sit with the lid on for about 10 minutes until the dried black beans were soft. When I tested the result, I couldn't believe how rich the soup tasted. The chicken, corn, bell peppers, and tomatoes complemented each other perfectly. I added the crushed tortilla chips and cheese that also come in the package and wolfed the soup down. Yum. I can see why this dish won an Editor's Choice Award in 2009 from Backpacker Magazine. I don't agree with BM on most things but they got this right. I just discovered Packit Gourmet a few weeks ago, but I recommend you check out their selection of dehydrated backpacking meals. They can be cooked in the bag or in the pot, are reasonably priced, and contain wholesome ingredients. This soup will be coming in my winter backpacking food bag this year. That's a definite. Originally posted on http://sectionhiker.com
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I bought some Pack-It Gourmet meals to bail me out of awful hospital food. I've been in rehab for 8 months and the food here has taken a nosedive. Box came this AM. Dinner was an inefible chef salad, rubber chicken, black-egg-yolk overboiled eggs, and all, so I whipped out this soup, asked for 12 ounces of boiling water, and mixed it up. I ate my watermelon while waiting. Wow, it was worth it! Spicy, tangy, chewy in a good way, I ate every bite with a nurse giving it covetous looks. I also bought the chili, the bangers/mash, the burger, the corn pudding, the Jamaican Porridge, some blocks of cheese and the Tropic Fusion smoothie. Breakfasts here are usually pretty dire, so bring it! I won't be eating it, I'll be having pineapple and coconut... ha!
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Love it. Love it. Love it. Both my wife and I agree that this is our new favorite backpacking meal.
Cooking Method
just add water
Water Required
12 ounces
Temperature
boiling water
Cook time
10 Minutes
Serving
14 Ounces
