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Mexican Tortilla Soup
May 12, 2008
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You think Mexican, you think Tortillas (pronounced as Tortias). The cuisine is extensively built around the tortilla, be it corn , flour or wheat tortilla and various dishes are made in various forms using the tortilla. One of their well known soup is of course – the Tortilla Soup. Mostly chunks of non-veg is added along with vegetables simmered in either beef/chicken stock and garnished with avocado and fried tortilla strips with lots of cilantro.
I have made a vegetarian version and since I believe in making everything from scratch for the purpose of eliminating unwanted preservatives, sodiums and sugars, I have not used tinned stuff ( call me paranoid! cos I think I sure am 
). But for a quick meal you can go for tinned ingredients too.
Method
1. Cut the tomatoes in half, brush some olive oil and bake in an Oven at 375F for 10-15min until you see liquid starting to ooze out of the tomatoes. Note This step is to be skipped if you are using Canned tomatoes.
2. Cool them for 2-3 min and then peel the skin from the tomatoes and chop them coarsely.
3.Next heat some Olive oil in a pan and add the cumin seeds along with onions, garlic and chilli. Saute for 3-4 min.
4.Then add the corn, tomatoes and kidney beans and cook for another 1 min.
5.Add the water/stock and simmer for 5-10min with a closed lid. Season with salt and Lots of pepper and in simmer in low heat for another 5min.
6.Meanwhile cut the corn tortiall in strips ( usually thin, I wanted little bigger ).
Note It helps if the tortiallas are dry without any moisture since it helps to reduce Oil intake while frying. But incase of using a relatively fresh tortilla jus bake them for 1-2 min in an oven till it gets dry.
7.Fry them in batches in oil till lightly golden.
It gets all crunchy.
8. 2 min before serving , add the avocado, tortillas along with cilantro. Hearty meal and this would serve 4.
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made this soup few days back and served it with zucchini crown bread. it was very hearty soup. thanks for this wonderful recipe.
Can I come over to have that soup? I am all drooling here..Good one.
I was originally going to submit a tortilla soup for your event, but opted instead for those black bean pastries. A must try this. Much better than the recipe for tortilla soup I had planned.
I’m also a purist in the kitchen. Paranoid perhaps, but food just tastes better when you can control all of the steps.
its alwasy so much better to make tortilla soup at home as the one you get in mexican restaurants has fish sauce in it:( your soup looks great DK!
Now you have made me drool with your soup recipe DK. God you are very patient to do everything right from the scratch. I also bake the tortillas instead of frying, because I’m addicted to deep fried items. If I deep fry, I won’t have any left for the soup.
hmmmmmm lovely tempting. I have one recipe in my mind will try to post it in my blog ASAP
Beautiful and light soup! Lovely entry, Dhivi.
I keep wondering how u manage to cook up delicious food in all cuisines
Really a tempting Soup DK.
Hey Bee,
In Mexico ( pronounced as Mehico) or to be more specific in spanish ( pronounced Espaneol) Vanilla would be ‘vainia’. Of course anywhere else Vanilla would be Vanilla
hehe
And yes..I do Bake them sometimes…M/W is a good idea too..:)
try cutting them into strips and microwaving them on a plate (turn once) for a minute or two. they turn crunchy and there’s no need to fry them.
tell me this: if ‘tortilla’ is pronounced ‘tortiya’, how should ‘vanilla’ be pronounced?
love tortilla soup..mouthwatering one
lovely soup, DK! nice instructions as usual.
Mexican cuisine is not something we see alot of here and the more I see it on the blogs, the more I think I’ve missed a whole experience. The soup looks so good – I especially like the minimizing the sodium and preservative content. The real meaning of healthy food.
Soup looks yum!! Liked step by step photos.. great!
Roasted tomatoes and spicy soup,I love this kind of soup.
Very delicious DK.
Hi DK…
That was again very excellent recipe…. I love the step by step pic of the recipe… The soup really rocks….YUM!…
DK, this looks really yummy! By the way, I have tagged you for a Picture MeMe just incase you wanted to participate!
Delicious!! I make this too, love the spicy soup. I bake the Tortillas until crisp to add. Not that I am skinny or anything because of “baking”! Hahaha!
Yum Yumm Yummy.. I was drooling over the soup .. now that the weather is rainy and gloomy, the very mention of ‘soup’ is making me feel warm and cosy..:D.. Its such a simple soup, will definitely make it..:D
Hugs,
Siri