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Tortilla Soup
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Tortilla Soup with homemade chicken stock

A rich Mexican soup with shredded chicken and crispy tortilla

⏱ 3 hr 13 min🍽 4 servings 🌍 Israeli👩‍🍳 Afoona

👨‍🍳 Method

For the homemade chicken stock ✓ Homemade · or skip – back to store-bought

  1. 1
    Put the chicken, the onion, carrot, celery, parsley, bay leaves and peppercorns and the water in a pot and bring to a boil. Skim off the foam that rises during the first 15 minutes with a spoon.
    StovePot
  2. 2
    Turn down and simmer gently 2.5–3 hours.
    Stove
    💡A gentle simmer, not a boil: a hard boil dries the food out and clouds it, a slow simmer cooks it evenly.
  3. 3
    Strain the stock.
    Colander

For the Soup

  1. 4
    Heat the oil in a large pot and fry the onion and garlic in it 3 minutes.
    StoveLarge pot
  2. 5
    Add the chicken, stock, tomatoes, paprika, cumin, salt and black pepper and bring to a boil. Turn down the heat and simmer at a gentle bubble uncovered 25 minutes.
    Stove
  3. 6
    Remove the chicken from the pot, shred it with a fork and return it to the pot.
  4. 7
    Add the chopped cilantro to the pot.
  5. 8
    Ladle the hot soup into bowls, with the vegetables and the meat.
  6. 9
    Arrange the tortilla strips and avocado on top of each bowl.
502calories
33 gprotein
37 gcarbs
24 gfat
● protein 27%● carbs 30%● fat 43%

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⚖ About the ingredients

🔧 Tools needed (2) · 🍳 One cooking vessel

  • Stove · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Portable hot plate (one weaker burner) · Camping gas stove (One burner, outdoors) · Electric pressure cooker (multicooker) (One pot, no real shallow frying)
  • Large pot · Also works: Pot (Cook in two batches)

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