If you don’t have a TJ’s nearby, just make sure the tortillas don’t have tons of chemicals and artificial ingredients. My favorite flour tortillas are Trader Joe’s Truly Handmade. You can add some hot sauce to the pot if everyone’s game, if not, just pass it around. In winter, I like it heartier, so I use more veggies and less water to thicken the consistency. ![]() ![]() In summer, I use less tomato and onion and more water to make a more brothy soup. I never measure anything when I make this soup, because you really can’t mess it up. If it doesn’t taste incredibly delicious, it needs more salt. The goal is to try to make all the vegetables the same size.Īdd the veggies to the soup and let simmer until the potato is cooked. Do the same with the carrots, and dice the potato. Slice the zucchini into small rounds, half slices or quarters, depending on how big your zucchini are (in diameter). Let the soup simmer for about five minutes, while you chop the veggies. Next, add the water, bouillon (or stock), about 1/2 teaspoon of salt and bring to a boil. Stir, and let simmer for about 3 or 4 minutes. Next, pour the puree into the hot oil in the pot. Put the 2 tablespoons of olive oil in a pot and turn the heat onto medium high. Hit BLEND or whatever button will do the business, and puree the heck out of those veggies! It will have a salmon-pink color at first, but will turn red once it starts to cook. Put the tomatoes, onion and garlic in a blender (if you like spicy, throw in a bit of jalapeño, too). Recipe inspired by a restaurant in Santa Barbara (by Christina Conte) serves 4įULL PRINTABLE RECIPE BELOW Prepare the Tortilla Soup Base If you try this recipe, please let me know by leaving a review below (click the 5 stars above the PRINT button), and if you have a question, please leave it in the COMMENTS since I cannot respond to reviews. I’ve had tortilla soup in Mexico several times, and if you prefer, you can blend the soup instead of leaving the vegetables chunky. Speaking of Trader Joe’s, here’s my copycat recipe for their 4 Cheese Diner Mac & Cheese!Įveryone seems to enjoy this soup as much as I do! And FYI, it’ll practically take you longer to read my long-winded intro than it takes to actually make the soup! I have also brought Trader Joe’s Truly Handmade Tortillas (my favorite) to England, and made the soup for about 10 relatives when we were all gathered at my Aunt Rosa’s house! I based the recipe on a type of rice dish a friend from South America had taught me to make, blending the tomatoes, onion and garlic together. The following recipe is my version of the soup which I had in Santa Barbara. It was love at first spoonful, and in fact, to this day, I remember asking the waitress to box up my entire main course as I didn’t want to spoil the taste of the soup (and it had actually filled me up quite nicely). It was so unexpectedly delicious, as was the cheese hiding below! On the bottom of the bowl, beneath the veggies and crisp tortilla strips was some sort of wonderfully gooey cheese! My friend Maisie was just as taken with the soup as I was!Īnother soup with gooey cheese: French Onion Soup “Interesting,” I thought, then I took my first taste. It was a light orange colored broth with a few cut veggies and long, thin strips of fried flour tortillas atop the soup. So, I ordered my main dish with the tortilla soup, and out it came, looking quite enticing. This is because you’d have to pay me a lot of money to eat iceberg lettuce! I can’t stand the stuff and it hurts my stomach. However, as disgusting as I thought it might be, it was the lesser of the two evils, in my opinion. As I thought it was made using tortillas–the image in my head of mushy, boiled tortillas was off-putting! Well, I have to admit at that time I was ignorant about tortilla soup. When I perused the menu, I noticed that all the main dishes came with tortilla soup, or an iceberg lettuce salad as a starter. On this particular day, we went to a Mexican restaurant near the Santa Barbara pier for lunch. ![]() Maisie loved the beach, and was elated to go whenever I suggested it. I threw her a surprise party when she became a US citizen, and she quite simply became part of our family. She came with me to farmer’s markets, the beach, attended my children’s school events, birthdays, and even flew to Michigan to my parents’ house when we were visiting one year! ![]() “Me too!” I told her, to which she responded, “A stranger from home is better than a friend who’s not.” My son, Steven at his preschool graduation with Maisie.Īnd that was the beginning of our wonderful friendship which lasted until she died many years later. I responded, “I know! Which part of Scotland?”
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