Mexican Tomato Soup
Mexican dish with litre tomato sauce, onions, bell peppers.
- prep 5 min
- cook 5 min
- total 10 min
- serves 6
- intermediate
- Mexico
Ingredients
- to taste litre tomato sauce
- 2 large onions
- 2 red bell peppers
- 2 tomatoes
- to taste onion
- 1 can sweet corn
- ¼ cup vegetable
- to taste salt
- to taste sugar
- to taste vegetables according to your taste
Steps
- Cut the onion fine.
- Fry lightly in a large saucepan with a bit of oil.
- Add the vegetables, roughly in the order you find logical (ie, tomatoes don't take long, peppers can be there from the start).
- Add about ½ teaspoon salt, adjusting to taste.
- The salt will extract water from the vegetables and make them stew faster.
- You can cover the pot if it goes slowly.
- This slows the evaporation and allows the vegetables to cook in the water they lose themselves.
- Add the tomato sauce and corn.
- Add salt and sugar to taste.
- Be bold — tomato sauce takes a lot of salt and at least a heaping teaspoon of sugar to taste right.
- If unsure, separate a small amount and try adding more salt — you will see the tastes changes significantly.
- Serve with tortilla chips, or toasted bread if not available.
Adapted from “Mexican Tomato Soup”, Wikibooks Cookbook, CC BY-SA 4.0. This adaptation is shared under the same licence.