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Dinner · 30 min · 4 bowls

Chicken tortilla soup

Lime at the table. Chips if you have them.

The sheet · 4 bowls · 30 min

easy

Why tonight. Lime at the table. Chips if you have them.

What it needs

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

  • chicken
  • tomato
  • stock
  • cumin
  • lime

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: tortillas, avocado.

Method

  1. Char the tortillas dry in a hot pan until they blister, then tear some into the pot and keep the rest crisp for the top.
  2. Onion and cumin bloomed in fat, tomato cooked down, then stock and the chicken poached gently — never boiled, or it shreds to cotton.
  3. The torn tortillas dissolve and thicken the broth, which is the trick and the reason this is not just chicken soup with lime.
  4. Lime at the table, and the crisp tortillas over the top at the last second so they still crack.

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

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Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

chicken
Two different foods depending on the cut.
tomato
Sweet, sour and savory at once, which is why it holds up so many dishes with no meat in them.
stock
Body, not flavor — that is the part people get backwards.
cumin
Earthy and slightly bitter, and it needs heat to open.
lime
Sharper and more floral than lemon, and it fades faster — juice it the same hour you use it.

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.

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