Mexican soup with chicken
By Jennifer Joyce
Cooking time
Prep: 15 mins Cook: 15 mins Plus soakingSkill level
EasyServings
Serves 4All those typically Mexican flavours - lime, coriander, chilli - combined in a soup with the crunch of tortilla chips
Nutrition and extra info
Additional info
- Can be frozen without toppings
Nutrition per serving (soup only)
- kcalories
- 257
- protein
- 34g
- carbs
- 10g
- fat
- 10g
- saturates
- 1g
- fibre
- 0g
- sugar
- 6g
- salt
- 2.12g
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 onion, chopped
- 4 garlic cloves, crushed
- 1 ancho or other large dried chilli, deseeded and softened in boiling water for about 10 mins
- ½ tsp ground cumin
- 400g can plum tomatoes
- 1½ l chicken stock
- 2 chicken breasts, sliced
- juice 2 limes
- tortilla chips or homemade tortilla strips (see below), chopped avocado, lime wedges, red onion and coriander, to serve
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Method
- Heat the oil in a large saucepan. Add the onion and garlic, soften for 5 mins, then stir in the dried chilli, cumin, tomatoes and chicken stock. Blitz in a food processor in batches, or use a hand blender to purée until smooth.
- Return to the pan, then bring to the boil. Add the chicken, reduce the heat, then simmer for 10 mins until cooked through. Stir in the lime juice and some seasoning, then ladle into bowls. Put the toppings in the middle of the table for everyone to help themselves.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, January 2009
Comments, questions and tips
Comments
This recipe is perfect. Easy and very very tasty. We had a lot of Mexican Lime Soup in Mexico and this is just as delicious and authentic... My boyfriend loved it too and bugged me to make a load so he could take it to work (he loves to show off to his friends that he has a girlfriend that can cook). Not watery or over spicy at all, although its not meant to be a thick soup.
I made this soup according to the recipe and although taste wise it's very tasty, it was really watery in consistency.
I added a cup of long grain rice & cooked for a further 15 mins which did the trick and thickened the soup up a treat.
When I cook this again I'm only going to add 1 litre of stock as I think it'll be ample.
Well i dont know where i went wrong with this. Ive never had a problem with making soup before but this came out far far too hot (and we love spicy) and very very runny and and an awful grey colour. It was like runny water with tomatoes chucked in. Ive never had a problem with any of the recipes on this site, it must have been something that i did, i cant believe it was the recipe due to the very good comments above. I would be happy to try my hand at making this again.
This sounds lovely although we don't eat chicken or turkey, even tho we are meat eaters. Ive bought a chunk of 'Extra special Cooked Arista pork loin' from my local supermarket Deli, i thought of chopping this into small cubes and adding this to the soup when its poured back into the saucepan after the Processor stage to warm through, and im serving with 'Ciabatta Cheese and Garlic Bread' i maight also add a little bit of sweetcorn. I hope this will work.x
