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Dinner · 40 min · 4 bowls

Caldo de pollo

Clear chicken soup, lime at the table. Uses the vegetable drawer.

The sheet · 4 bowls · 40 min

easy

Why tonight. Clear chicken soup, lime at the table. Uses the vegetable drawer.

What it needs

Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.

  • chicken
  • carrot
  • onion
  • potato
  • stock

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: lime, cilantro.

Method

  1. A bare simmer, never a boil. Boiling shreds the chicken into cotton and clouds the broth.
  2. Vegetables cut large — this is a soup you eat with a spoon and a fork, and small dice turns it to mush.
  3. Skim the surface in the first ten minutes. That grey foam is what makes an unskimmed broth taste muddy.
  4. Lime and cilantro at the table, never in the pot. The broth should be clean and the brightness added at the last moment.

An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.

Cook or pour it, then edit the shelf if you emptied a bottle or used the last of something.

Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

chicken
Two different foods depending on the cut.
carrot
Sweetness that survives long cooking, which is why it sits under so many braises.
onion
The base under most of this library.
potato
Waxy holds its shape, floury falls apart, and almost every potato complaint is the wrong one for the job.
stock
Body, not flavor — that is the part people get backwards.

Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.

Cooks from the same box

If you bought for this, you can already make these

Next

Cook it, then tell the shelf what you used.

The ranking is only as honest as the shelf behind it. Empty the cream, and everything that leaned on cream should stop being offered.

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