Recipe - Aztec Soup

3 Cloves garlic
One half Onion; cut in big chuncks
3 Tomatoes
6 cup Chicken stock
1 teaspoon Oil
2 small Branches epazote
Salt and pepper
8 (up to)
10 Corn tortillas; left on the
counter the day before
Oil to deep fry
2 (up to)
3 Chiles pasilla
2 Chopped avocados
155 g Feta cheese of some similar
fresh cheese
One half cup Whipping cream
3 Limes

Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 14:22:58 0400

From: dmg@csg.uwaterloo.ca
Roast the garlic cloves, onion and tomatoes on a pan until the skin is
burned, rotating them in the meantime. Peel the tomatoes, remove their hard
parts and blend them with the onion and garlic plus One fourth cup of chicken
stock.

On one spoon of oil, fry the puree for 2 minutes. Lower the heat and cook
for another 5 minutes, until the puree get thicker or changes in colour.

Add the remainder chicken stock and epazote. Add salt and pepper to taste.
Bring to boil and cook at medium heat for 15 minutes.

Cut the tortillas in halves, and then each half in thin strips. Add 1cm of
oil in a small pan. When it is hot, add the strips few at a time and
fry them for 3 minutes or until they are golden, flipping them once. Take
out and remove excess oil. (It is important that the tortillas are dry, if
you can not leave them drying the day before, put them in your oven at 120
Celsius for one hour).

Cut the chiles in rings of 1cm and remove the seeds. Fry them in oil for
one minute or until crunchy.

Five minutes before serving, heat the soup, add the fried tortillas.
Decorate each bowl with chile rings and avocado. Add cheese.

Leave rest of avocado, chiles, cream and limes on the table for extra
garnish.

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