🇲🇽 Mexican

Nopales Sopa

Name: Nopales Sopa
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Mexican
Ingredients: to taste Salt; 1, diced Onion; 3 cloves, minced Garlic; 1 tbsp Vegetable Oil; small handful Fresh Cilantro; 300 ml Tomato Sauce; 1/2 tsp Ground Cumin; 1 litre Stock or Broth; 80 g Pasta Shells; 400 g, diced Nopales

🇲🇽 Mexican

Gentle simmered nopales in a fragrant broth, finished with fresh herbs — the mexican answer to "something light tonight". 30 minutes of mostly hands-off cooking.

Prep 10 min Cook 20 min Serves 4 Easy

Ingredients

Saltto taste
Onion1, diced
Garlic3 cloves, minced
Vegetable Oil1 tbsp
Fresh Cilantrosmall handful
Tomato Sauce300 ml
Ground Cumin1/2 tsp
Stock or Broth1 litre
Pasta Shells80 g
Nopales400 g, diced

Instructions

1
Sweat the onion in the Vegetable Oil until translucent but not browned, about 5 minutes.
2
Add the garlic and ground cumin and cook for 30 seconds more.
3
Pour in the stock, bring to a simmer, and add the nopales.
4
Simmer gently until the nopales is just cooked through and the broth tastes rounded.
5
Ladle into warm bowls and top each with fresh cilantro and a grind of black pepper.

Chef's tip

For deeper flavour, toast the ground cumin in the oil before adding anything wet.

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Watch how it's made

Video: Sopa Ranchera de Nopales - La Herencia de las Viudas · on YouTube