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Chicken tortilla soup with chorizo, sweet potato and fresh corn

Alton Brown · ♥ 755 likes · 24.4K views · 88 min video

Read about sweet corn in the BrightCulinary Book

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Ingredients
Method
Techniques
  • 1 quart turkey and chicken broth
  • water
  • tomatoes
Heat a little more than a quart of turkey and chicken broth, topped up with a little water.
The broth
  • 2 whole sweet potatoes
Dice two sweet potatoes very small, brunoise, an eighth inch each way, and cook them in the broth.
  • onion
  • jalapenos
  • Diamond Crystal kosher salt
Make a sofrito: cut the onion and jalapenos, seeds and membrane included, then process them in the food processor; season with kosher salt and cook.
What a sofrito is
  • 1 lb chorizo
  • beer
Cook one pound of loose chorizo in a pan, then let it cook in beer.
Cooking the chorizo in beer
  • 3 cobs fresh corn on the cob
Cut the kernels off three cobs of fresh corn over a paper cup set in a bowl, then turn the cob over and milk it.
Cutting corn off the cob without the mess
Add the corn to the soup with the cooked chorizo and sweet potatoes; the corn needs very little cooking.
Bringing the soup together
  • tortilla chips
  • queso fresco
  • avocado
Serve topped with crumpled tortilla chips, queso fresco, avocado and chorizo.
Serving with chips, cheese and avocado
Variation: chicken, salmon or no meat on top, and vegetable broth in place of chicken or turkey broth.
Variations and why turkey