Recipe - Fideo Soup

One half cup Olive oil or 8 tablespoons
unsalted butter
12 ounce Fideo, vermicelli or angel
hair pasta, broken into
1inch pieces
4 Dried or canned Morita or
Chipotle chiles; cut into
2 pound Italian Roma tomatoes
8 Garlic cloves,; peeled
1 lg Onion,; roughly chopped
One half cup Water
2 teaspoon Salt
6 cup Chicken stock or vegetable
stock
1 Avocado, peeled, seeded
8 sl Avocado; for garnish
1 bn Cilantro, leaves only,
chopped,; for garnish

In large saucepan or stockpot heat the oil or butter. Add pasta and saute
until golden, stirring frequently and being careful not to burn. Stir in
chiles and cook for 2 minutes longer. Meanwhile, combine tomatoes, garlic,
onion, water and salt in a blender. Puree until smooth. Add tomato puree
and stock to browned pasta. Cook over mediumlow heat until the noodles
soften and the flavors meld, about 15 minutes. Serve hot with the cut or sliced up
avocado and cilantro as garnish.
Recipe By :TOO HOT TAMALES SHOW #TH6112

Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #316

Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 08:02:26 0500

From: Meg Antczak meginny@frontiernet.net