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
- tortilla chips
- queso fresco
- avocado
Serve topped with crumpled tortilla chips, the chorizo, queso fresco and avocado.
Assembling the tortilla soup