Ginas Hot And Spicy Tortilla Soup Food

GINA'S HOT AND SPICY TORTILLA SOUP

Steps:

• In a large heavy bottomed pot, heat the oil on medium-high heat. Saute the onions. Add bell pepper, jalapenos, salt and pepper. Cook until the onions become translucent. Add the cumin and stir until fragrant. Add the chicken broth, tomatoes, corn, and 1/4 cup of the cilantro. Add the diced chicken and cook through for about 10 minutes. Season with salt, to taste.
• Ladle soup into bowls and divide the crushed tortilla chips between the bowls. Top with sour cream, Monterey jack cheese, cilantro, sliced avocado, and lime wedges.

SPICY MEXICAN TORTILLA SOUP

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a 6-quart saucepot over medium-high heat. Add the onion and peppers and cook for 2 minutes or until tender-crisp, stirring occasionally.
• Stir in the tomato paste, corn, beans, tomatoes, broth and chicken and heat to a boil. Reduce the heat to low. Cook for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Serve topped with crushed tortilla chips or strips, if desired.

SPICY CHICKEN TORTILLA SOUP

Steps:

• Cook bacon in a large skillet over medium heat until crispy, about 5 minutes. Drain on a paper towel, reserving 1 tablespoon grease in the skillet. Add onion and garlic to the skillet; cook and stir until onion are translucent, about 5 minutes.
• Combine chicken broth and chicken breasts in a large pot; bring to a boil. Cook until chicken breasts are no longer pink in the center, about 15 minutes. Remove chicken breasts from broth; cool until easily handled.
• Stir bacon, onion, garlic, diced tomatoes and green chile peppers, and tomato sauce into the chicken broth. Add corn, chipotle peppers, salt, pepper, cumin, and cilantro.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Place tortilla strips on a baking sheet.
• Tear chicken breasts into small strips; add to the broth mixture. Cook and stir until soup flavors combine, about 20 minutes.
• Bake tortilla strips in the preheated oven until slightly crisp, about 5 minutes.
• Ladle soup into serving bowls. Top with sour cream; garnish with tortilla strips and Cheddar cheese.

SPICY TORTILLA SOUP

Steps:

• Cut tortillas into 1/4 inch strips.
• Bake at 400 degrees until golden brown and crisp.
• Add oil to a saucepan and heat.
• When hot, add the dried chiles and quickly fry for 30 sec until they crisp up.
• Remove and drain on paper towels.
• Add garlic and onion to the oil.
• Reduce heat and cook them until golden.
• Add them along with chiles to a food processor.
• Add tomatoes to the food processor.
• Blend all into a smooth puree.
• Set a saucepan over medium heat.
• Add puree and keep stirring until the puree thickens to a dark red paste (takes almost 10 minutes).
• Now add the broth, cumin and epazote to the paste.
• Mix well.
• Bring to a boil and then cover partially and simmer over a low flame for 30 minutes.
• Season with salt.
• Divide cheeses and avocado among soup bowls.
• Add a ladle of soup and top with some tortilla chips and cilantro.
• Serve lime slices alongside.

SPICY TORTELLINI SOUP

Steps:

• In medium saucepan, bring chicken broth to a boil over high heat.
• Add tortellini, reduce heat to medium-low and simmer about 5 minutes. Gently stir in diced tomatoes, simmer 3 minutes until tortellini is tender, stir in sundried tomatoes, shallots.
• Stir in basil, cayenne pepper, oregano and black pepper and simmer another 2 minutes.
• Stir in spanach 1 cup at a time just until wilted.
• Ladle into shallow bowls, sprinkle with cheese and additional cayenne pepper to taste.