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Chicken tortilla soup with chorizo, sweet potato and fresh corn

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Ingredients
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  • 1 quart turkey and chicken broth
  • water
  • 2 whole sweet potatoes
  • tomatoes
Heat a little more than a quart of turkey and chicken broth, topped up with a little water.
Cut two sweet potatoes into brunoise, an eighth-inch dice, and bring to a boil in the broth until cooked.
  • onion
  • jalapenos
  • Diamond Crystal kosher salt
Cut the onion and the jalapenos, keeping the seeds and membrane, and process them in a food processor into a sofrito with salt; cook the sofrito.
What a sofrito is
  • 1 lb chorizo sausage
  • beer
Cook one pound of loose chorizo in a pan, then let it cook in beer.
Cooking the chorizo in beer
  • corn on the cob
Stand each cob on a paper cup set in a bowl, cut the kernels off so they fall into the bowl, then turn the cob and scrape it to milk it.
Cutting corn off the cob without the mess
Add the corn to the soup; it needs very little cooking.
  • tortilla chips
  • queso fresco
  • avocado
Serve topped with crumpled tortilla chips, the chorizo, queso fresco and avocado.
Assembling the tortilla soup