Caldo De Pollo Recipes

CALDO DE POLLO (MEXICAN CHICKEN SOUP)

Steps:

• Rinse and dry chicken and place in stockpot. Add the corn on the cob nibblers with the chicken. Cover with water and season with salt.
• Add onion, bay leaves and garlic and let simmer for about 20 minutes (longer if using bigger pieces of chicken).
• Add the carrots, celery ribs, chayote, and potatoes and cook until vegetables are near tender.
• Add the cabbage, add more salt if needed and add pepper. Let simmer for about 5-10 minutes until cabbage is tender.
• Serve and garnish with cilantro, diced onion, and lime wedges. Adjust to taste with lime wedges.

CALDO DE POLLO

Steps:

• Place chicken legs into a large stock pot and pour water over chicken; add garlic, salt, and garlic powder. Cover, bring to a boil, and reduce heat to low. Simmer until chicken meat falls off the bones, 1 to 2 hours. Stir in chicken bouillon cube and let dissolve.
• Mix carrots, potatoes, zucchini, chayote, and white onion in the broth, turn heat to medium-low, and cook soup at a low boil until carrots and potatoes are tender, 45 minutes to 1 hour. Stir chopped cilantro into soup, simmer for 5 minutes, and serve.

CALDO DE POLLO (MEXICAN CHICKEN SOUP)

Steps:

• Combine 6 cups chicken broth, water, chicken tenders, chicken bouillon cubes, olive oil, granulated garlic, cumin, salt, and pepper in a large pot; bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover pot, and simmer until chicken is cooked through, about 25 minutes. Gently shred chicken using 2 forks. Add onion to broth and simmer for about 5 more minutes.
• Bring 2 cups chicken broth, rice, and chili powder to a boil in a saucepan. Reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and simmer until the rice is tender and liquid has been absorbed, about 25 minutes.
• Spoon rice into each serving bowl and pour soup over rice. Garnish with avocado slices and cilantro.

TRADITIONAL CALDO DE POLLO (CHICKEN SOUP)

Steps:

• In a food processor, finely chop onions, celery, and garlic.
• Puncture jalapeno with a knife.
• In a stockpot place chicken, water, salt, pepper, corn nibblets, and the punctured jalapeno along with chopped onions, celery, and garlic and bring this to a boil.
• Tuck the cilantro into the ball infuser and drop into stockpot.
• Let everything simmer for about 20 to 30 minutes.
• Add halved potatoes and simmer for 5 minutes.
• At this point taste the broth for flavor. Add salt if needed.
• Add carrots and chayote and simmer for another 5 minutes.
• Add green beans and simmer for 3 to 5 minutes.
• Test potatoes to make sure they are cooked. If they are turn off heat.
• Finally, add zucchini and cabbage and let these veggies cooked with the heat of the broth. Cover and let it sit approximately 3 minutes.
• Serve with lime and garnish with chopped onions/cilantro if desired. OR serve over plain rice.