Authentic Tlalpeño Soup Recipes

MEXICAN CHICKEN SOUP WITH GARBANZO BEANS (CALDO TLALPENO)

Steps:

• Combine chicken breasts, 1/2 an onion, celery, and parsley with cold water and chicken bouillon in a saucepan. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer the stock until chicken is no longer pink in the center, 20 to 25 minutes.
• Remove chicken from the stock and shred with a fork. Strain stock and discard onion, celery, and parsley. Return stock to the saucepan.
• Heat oil in a skillet over medium heat. Add chopped onion and garlic; cook and stir until transparent, about 3 minutes. Add tomatoes and cook until tender, about 5 minutes. Let cool slightly, about 5 minutes. Pour mixture into a blender; add 1 cup stock. Cover and hold lid down with a potholder; pulse a few times before leaving on to blend.
• Pour tomato mixture into the saucepan of stock; add chickpeas and carrots. Let simmer until carrots are nearly softened, about 10 minutes. Stir in the shredded chicken and chipotle peppers. Let simmer until flavors blend and carrots are tender, about 10 minutes more. Season with salt and serve with avocados, lime quarters, and Oaxaca cheese on the side.

AUTHENTIC TLALPEñO SOUP

Steps:

• Simmer chicken, broth, epazote and chipotle chile in a pan over medium heat until just cooked - 12-15 minutes.
• Remove chicken and set aside.
• Heat olive oil in a large saucepan over a medium heat. Add onion and carrots and sauté for approx 5 minutes, until tender. Add garlic and sauté for a further minute.
• In same saucepan, add broth mixture and chickpeas, then cook for 20 minutes on medium heat with lid on.
• De-bone chicken shred the meat and add to the soup. Add juice of 1 lime and adobo, and add salt and black pepper, to taste.

CALDO TLALPENO

Steps:

• Add the olive oil to a soup pot, and saute the onion and carrot, over medium heat, until the onions begins to brown slightly, about 7 miutes.
• Add the garlic and cook another minute.
• Stir in the chicken broth and garbanzo beans.
• Partially cover the pot, and simmer for 30 minutes.
• Add the chile, cilantro, and shredded chicken to the soup to heat through.
• Ladle the soup into bowls and top with diced avocado.
• Serve with a slice of lime on the side.

AUTHENTIC TORTELLINI SOUP

Steps:

• Pour 1 can broth into a small saucepan and add tortellini; bring to a boil. Cook tortellini until tender yet firm to the bite, about 5 minutes.
• Heat oil in a large stockpot over medium heat; cook and stir sausage, onion, garlic, and Italian seasoning until sausage is browned and crumbly, 5 to 10 minutes. Add tortellini-broth mixture, remaining can of broth, tomato puree, and spinach to sausage mixture; cover stockpot and simmer until flavors blend, about 30 minutes.

CALDO TLALPENO

Steps:

• In a large saucepan bring the broth just to a boil and in it poach the chicken at a bare simmer for 15 minutes, or until the chicken is just cooked through. Remove the pan from the heat and let the chicken cool in the broth. Transfer the chicken to a cutting board, reserving the broth, and discard the skin and bones. Shred the chicken and reserve it, covered and chilled. In a large heavy saucepan cook the onion in the oil over moderate heat, stirring, until it is softened, stir in the carrots and the zucchini, and cook the mixture, stirring, for 1 minute. Add the reserved broth to the vegetable mixture with the chick-peas and simmer the soup for 8 minutes, or until the carrots are just tender. The soup and the chicken may be prepared up to this point 1 day in advance and kept covered and chilled. Stir the reserved chicken into the soup with the chilies and salt and pepper to taste, simmer the soup gently until the chicken is heated through, and divide it among 8 bowls. Garnish each serving with some of the avocado, peeled, pitted, and sliced, and a lime wedge.