Mexican Chicken Soup Caldo De Pollo Recipes

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.

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.

Steps:

• Cut onions in large chunks and chop cilantro.
• put chicken in a very large pot. I cut the legs off of the thighs.
• Cover with water.
• Add bouillon cubes.
• Bring to a boil
• Add whole garlic cloves, onions, salt,and cilantro.
• Lower heat and simmer 1 hour and fifteen minutes.
• While chicken cooks peel and cut potatoes into large pieces.
• Cut zucchini and squash into 1.5 inch slices.
• Cut celery into 1 inch pieces.
• Quarter the cabbage.
• Cut corn into 3 inch pieces.
• Remove any fat at this point if you wish and you can take skins off chicken.
• Add potatoes and corn cook for 20 minutes.
• Add squash, zucchini,and celery cook 10 minutes.
• Add cabbage and cook for 15 more mins or until cabbage and squash are soft.