Tortilla Soup - Feast Your Eyes

by Alexa Weibel, Posted Sep 17th 2009 @ 10:00AM

Zesty tortilla soup. Photo: umamigirl, Flickr.

In a refreshing alternative to the tired go-to chicken soup, tortilla soup is just as simple a concoction thanks to the addition of a few lively ingredients, namely jalapeno, lime, cilantro and tomatillos. Here, Flickr user umamigirl prepared Serious Eat's "kitchen sink style" Quick Tortilla Soup recipe, which we can only hope to be as gloriously colorful in flavor as it is in appearance.

Though this tortilla soup makes use of a plethora of ingredients, the beauty of the brothy soup is its flexibility, both in terms of taste as well as the clever cook's "what-do-I-have-on-hand-that-may-go-bad" approach. Have an affinity to garlic? Throw in as many cloves as your heart desires. Are there bell peppers going soft? Toss them in at liberty. Distaste for cilantro? Substitute some parsley in its place. Either way, with a base as simple as a can of diced tomatoes, broth and cooked chicken, tossing in whatever additional ingredients you crave guarantees to lead to a delicious bowl of soup.

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Filed Under: Fall Flavors, Feast Your Eyes
Tags: chicken soup, ChickenSoup, fall flavors, quick tortilla soup, QuickTortillaSoup, serious eats, SeriousEats, soup, tomatillo, tortilla soup, TortillaSoup