Sopa de Fideos Seca

This week's home cooking recipe is very similar to last week's Sopa de Pasta except this is a "dry" soup, meaning there's no appreciable broth in it. It also uses a specific type of pasta called "fideo," similar to angel-hair pasta.

 Ingredients:

200 gr. Fideos
2 Cups chicken broth
350 gr. Can of diced red tomato (or two red tomatoes peeled and seeded)
1/2 cup tomato puree or tomato paste
1/3 Onion, quartered
1.5 Cloves of garlic, quartered
Cilantro to taste
1 Dried morita chile, or the chile of your choice (optional)

Put the tomato, onion, garlic, cilantro, tomato puree and chile in the blender and liquefy well. In a pot set two cups of chicken broth and the salsa from the blender on high heat. When the mix begins to boil, add the fideos and reduce the heat to medium-low. Stir well. Keep cooking while stirring occasionally until the liquid is consumed.

The result should be a very red, soft, gloppy pasta.traditionally it is served with some crumbled or grated cheese, chopped onion and sour cream.


Although I used a non-stick coated pot, the fideos tended to stick to the hot bottom. It's important to keep stirring so none of the pasta will burn. Also place a lid half on the pot, as the thick tomato, broth and pasta mix tends to splatter a bit while it boils.


Enjoy!