Caldo de rez. This is a traditional Mexican home recipe for beef soup (Caldo De Res). Without the meat it is also delicious as a vegetarian soup. Serve with French rolls or corn tortillas and your favorite salsa.
The key to caldo de res, I think, is the timing.
Here's why: If you throw in all the vegetables at once, by the time the corn and carrots are cooked, the squash and potatoes will be slop.
So the key is to add the vegetables in the proper order (corn, carrots, celery, onion/tomato/cilantro, cabbage, potato, squash) with about fifteen minutes.
You can cook Caldo de rez using 8 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Caldo de rez
- Prepare 3 lbs of beef roast fat and bone included cut up in chunks.
- It's 3 cups of fresh green beans.
- Prepare to taste of Salt.
- It's 4 of fresh corn on the cob cut into 1/3's.
- It's 1 bunch of cilantro.
- You need 1 of large onion half finely chopped and half chopped chunky.
- It's of Water.
- It's of Serrano chiles chopped up.
Caldo de Res is accompanied by chopped sides of onion and cilantro which may be added according to taste. Caldo de Res is a Mexican beef soup made with a flavorful beef broth and filled with lots of vegetables such as squash, corn, carrots, cabbage and potatoes. The way the broth is prepared and the vegetables that are used varies from region to region in Mexico, but the cut of meat that is typically used is bone-in beef shank.. Caldo de Res is accompanied by chopped sides of onion and cilantro which may be added according, to taste.
Caldo de rez step by step
- In large pot add water and beef, beef bone and beef fat. Cook till fork tender..
- Add chunky cut onion, cilantro, green beans, corn and salt to taste. Continue cooking until beef is pull apart tender..
- Serve in large bowl with chopped onion, chopped serrano chiles and lime juice..
Also, chopped jalapenos may be added for the perfect hangover cure. Sprinkle with the salt and bring to a boil. Cover and reduce to a simmer. Caldo de res is a traditional Mexican beef soup with juicy, fall-apart pieces of succulent stew meat and satisfying hunks of flavorful veggies all jostling for space. The base of the soup is an à la minute beef broth, made by simmering the stew meat with aromatics until fork-tender and then allowing the vegetables to soak up the resulting flavor.
