Mexican Style Beef Soup Recipes

Steps:

• In a 5- or 6-qt. slow cooker, combine first 12 ingredients. Cook, covered, on low until meat is tender, 6-8 hours. If desired, serve with sour cream and chips.

Steps:

• Combine the beef chuck cubes and the bone with 10 cups water, garlic and onion in large pot. Sprinkle with the salt and bring to a boil. Cover and reduce to a simmer. Simmer for 30 minutes. Then uncover and skim off the foam and grease. Add the carrots, celery stick, chayote squash, corn, zucchini and cabbage. Cover, and continue simmering for 30 more minutes. Turn the heat off and serve hot with lime wedges, hot sauce and warm corn tortillas.

Steps:

• Chop the beef shank into large chunks, keeping some attached to the bone.
• Sauté the beef chunks with the chopped onions, salt, and pepper.
• After the beef is browned, add the beef stock and the stewed tomatoes.
• Bring the mixture to a boil, then simmer just below the boiling point for about one hour, until the beef is "spoon tender".
• Wash the vegetables thoroughly, then cut each ear of corn and each potato into quarters.
• Cut equivalent chunks of carrots and chayote (if zucchini is used, keep pieces bigger as they will cook faster than chayote).
• Add the vegetables to the soup.
• Chop ¼ cup of cilantro and add it to the mixture, then add water to cover the vegetables and bring the mixture to a boil.
• Reduce the heat to medium and simmer for 20 minutes.
• Cut the cabbage into ½ and then into thirds, leaving the stem of the cabbage intact.
• Wedge the cabbage chunks into the mixture and simmer for 10 more minutes.
• Serve, making sure each bowl contains chunks of all the vegetables.
• Garnish with a squeeze of lemon or lime. Serve with heated tortillas.
• Caldo de Res is accompanied by chopped sides of onion and cilantro which may be added according to taste.

Steps:

• Heat half the oil in a soup pot over medium high heat, add the meat and brown on all sides.
• Remove the pan from the heat, and add the wine.
• Pour the meat/wine mixture into a bowl and set aside, then put the soup pot back on the heat.
• Add the remaining oil and let it heat for a minute, add the onions, stir and cover for 3 minutes.
• Then add the green pepper, chile, garlic and carrot, stir and cover, cooking for 3 minutes.
• Then it's time to add the coriander, cumin, cinnamon, oregano, bay leaf and orange zest.
• Now add the tomatoes and bouillon, along with the beef/wine mixture--bring all of this to almost a boil, when it starts to bubble, reduce the heat to low and cover.
• Simmer gently for one hour, stirring occasionally.
• When the hour is up, add the rice, raisins and chocolate, cover again, and simmer for another 1/2 hour, until rice is tender.
• (you may need to raise the heat up a bit) Ladle into bowl and garnish with the cilantro.