Alphabet soup (Sopa de letras) from Pati's Mexican Table: The Secrets of Real Mexican Home Cooking (page 80) by Pati Jinich

  • tomatoes
  • vegetable broth
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    Can substitute canned tomato purée or crushed tomatoes for tomatoes; any small pasta for alphabet pasta; and this book's "Mexican chicken broth" or commercial chicken broth for vegetable broth.

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    Can substitute canned tomato purée or crushed tomatoes for tomatoes; any small pasta for alphabet pasta; and this book's "Mexican chicken broth" or commercial chicken broth for vegetable broth.

  • Yildiz100 on August 02, 2019

    I agree, this is a bit bland. Pati's version of this soup is very tomato with less garlic and onion than I would have used. So, out of curiosity I also checked Diana Kennedy's recipe for this and she used twice as much relative to the amount of tomatoes called for. It's also a bit heavy on the broth for me.

  • TrishaCP on September 28, 2015

    I didn't hate this, but the end result was kind of spaghetti-o-like in the blandness and my 3-year old niece didn't really eat it.

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