One of my favorite soups! My abuelita would make this all the time and I'm convinced that this soup cures all! I'm making it vegetarian because the friend that I'm making this for is vegetarian but normally I would make it chock full of octopus, clams, fish, shrimp, etc! And this soup is soooo easy to make!
What you need, roughly:
*7 oz can of chipotle peppers-roughly chopped (you can use dry chipotle peppers but I prefer the canned variety because the sauce that they are canned in is delicious!)
*6 cloves of garlic-roughly chopped
*6 cups of vegetarian broth
*1/2-1 cup of frozen corn
*Cilantro-to taste
*Olive oil
*1/2 jalapeno-minced
*1 avocado (to top soup off)
*1 large white onion-roughly chopped
*1 large lime (and more to taste if you'd like)
*Sea salt-to taste
*1/2 teaspoon of oregano
*Cast iron pot is best to saute everything in and then when you add the broth, you can slowly cook soup in the same
1) Saute onion, garlic and jalapeno in olive oil (about 3 teaspoons) till onions are almost transparent.
2) Add corn and let it saute for a few minutes.
3) Add broth, chipotle peppers and oregano.
4) Let simmer for a while so that the broth gets all that flavor! Very low heat for about 45 minutes or so. I usually taste it to see along the way. This is when you would add the salt to taste.
5) At this point you want to add the lime. Squeeze out all that juice!
6) Taste soup and determine if it needs more lime? Salt?
7) Top with avocado and cilantro if you want though this is not very typical but I like it anyway.
