Caldo De Pollo Rojo Recipes

CALDO DE POLLO

Steps:

• Place chicken legs into a large stock pot and pour water over chicken; add garlic, salt, and garlic powder. Cover, bring to a boil, and reduce heat to low. Simmer until chicken meat falls off the bones, 1 to 2 hours. Stir in chicken bouillon cube and let dissolve.
• Mix carrots, potatoes, zucchini, chayote, and white onion in the broth, turn heat to medium-low, and cook soup at a low boil until carrots and potatoes are tender, 45 minutes to 1 hour. Stir chopped cilantro into soup, simmer for 5 minutes, and serve.

CALDO DE POLLO (MEXICAN CHICKEN SOUP)

Steps:

• Rinse and dry chicken and place in stockpot. Add the corn on the cob nibblers with the chicken. Cover with water and season with salt.
• Add onion, bay leaves and garlic and let simmer for about 20 minutes (longer if using bigger pieces of chicken).
• Add the carrots, celery ribs, chayote, and potatoes and cook until vegetables are near tender.
• Add the cabbage, add more salt if needed and add pepper. Let simmer for about 5-10 minutes until cabbage is tender.
• Serve and garnish with cilantro, diced onion, and lime wedges. Adjust to taste with lime wedges.

CALDO DE POLLO ROJO

Steps:

• Put chicken, salt, and 14 cups water into a large pot and simmer over medium heat, skimming foam as it surfaces, until just tender, about 25-30 minutes. Meanwhile, soak chiles in a bowl of water until soft, about 10 minutes, then drain. Put chiles, tomatoes, garlic, and half of the onions into a food processor. Add 1/4 cup of the broth from the pot and puree. Strain into a large bowl, pressing on the solids with the back of a spoon and set aside. Heat oil in a medium skillet. Add strained sauce and cook, stirring 4-5 minutes. Add bouillon cubes and cook, stirring, until dissolved, about 3 minutes. Add chile sauce to pot with chicken and broth and simmer, covered, for 15 minutes. Adjust seasoning. Serve soup with lime wedges and remaining chopped onions. Garnish with cilantro.

TRADITIONAL CALDO DE POLLO (CHICKEN SOUP)

Steps:

• In a food processor, finely chop onions, celery, and garlic.
• Puncture jalapeno with a knife.
• In a stockpot place chicken, water, salt, pepper, corn nibblets, and the punctured jalapeno along with chopped onions, celery, and garlic and bring this to a boil.
• Tuck the cilantro into the ball infuser and drop into stockpot.
• Let everything simmer for about 20 to 30 minutes.
• Add halved potatoes and simmer for 5 minutes.
• At this point taste the broth for flavor. Add salt if needed.
• Add carrots and chayote and simmer for another 5 minutes.
• Add green beans and simmer for 3 to 5 minutes.
• Test potatoes to make sure they are cooked. If they are turn off heat.
• Finally, add zucchini and cabbage and let these veggies cooked with the heat of the broth. Cover and let it sit approximately 3 minutes.
• Serve with lime and garnish with chopped onions/cilantro if desired. OR serve over plain rice.