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
- 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
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