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Chile Relleno Soup

It has the rich, comforting flavors of chile rellenos in an easy-to-make, creamy soup perfect for chilly days.
Course Main
Cuisine Mexican

Ingredients
  

  • 5 Poblano peppers
  • Queso fresco fresh mexican cheese
  • Egg whites
  • Corn starch we use Maizena
  • Tomatoes
  • Onion
  • Garlic
  • Chicken bouillon
  • Salt
  • Oil we use vegetable
  • White Rice
  • Water

Instructions
 

  • Grill roast the poblano peppers on the stovetop until they are very well roasted, they will look kind of burned.
  • Put them in a plastic bag or large ziploc for about 10-15 minutes (this makes them easier to peel) peel the top layer of the pepper (the burnt part) off.
  • Cut the peppers open from one side and take out all the seeds.
  • Cut the queso fresco and stuff the peppers.
  • Coat the peppers with a bit of maizena (corn starch).
  • In a big bowl batter up some egg whites until it’s very fluffy and dip the peppers in the batter oneby one and placing them in hot cooking oil until golden.
  • Once you fry all the peppers set them aside to make the broth.

For the broth:

  • You are going to blend tomatoes (my mom does about 5 for a pot of 6 peppers) a small piece if onion she said less than 1/4, 2 garlic cloves and blend with about two cups of water.
  • In your pot you are going to warm up a bit of oil with a very small piece of onion and heat up until the onion burns, remove onion piece and sauté your tomate blend on high.
  • Add salt to taste and chicken bouillon.
  • Sauté blend for about 6 minutes until it boils.
  • Add more water to your pot once tomato blend boils (she does not measure the water so possibly about 4-5 cups of water).
  • Once the broth boils add your peppers in and leave for about 3 minutes and that is all!
  • We usually like to make a separate small pot of white rice that we add into our broth separately after we serve our own bowl so that the broth doesn’t get absorbed by the rice.
  • Good luck guys and let me know if you have any questions!! I hope this recipe made sense.
Keyword Chile Relleno Soup
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