Best Sopita Recipes

SOPITA

Steps:

• Sauté rice in butter.
• Add chopped tomato and zucchini and cook for a few minutes.
• Add chicken (or vegetable stock) and salt.
• Bring to a boil.
• Cover and let simmer until liquid is absorbed.

NINI'S CUBAN TROPICAL SOUP, SOPITA TROPICAL DE NINI

Steps:

• 1. Skin and cut the whole chicken into pieces. Put into a deep heavy soup pot. Add about 2 quarts of cold water, the whole quarted onion, smashed garlic, half green pepper whole do no cut into pieces, cilantro sprigs whole with the leaves, 1 tablespoon salt and some of the black pepper. cover and cook chicken for about 45 minutes. Cook until chicken is tender reduce heat and simmer on very low.
• 2. While chicken is cooking prep the vegetables. If you have found them frozen at the supermarket rinse and put into a dish cut in pieces, the cut boniato, white sweet potato, cut plantains, cut yuca root or casava root in pieces and Cuban calabaza or carribbean tropical pumpkin. If fresh peeled and cut into bite sized pieces or if frozen it will be cut and ready to add to your soup. Sometimes you can find the frozen mixture of all of these vegetables all together in one bag to make a dish called Ajiaco, Another kind of Cuban Tropical Soup. If you can find this Ajiaco vegetables then buy two bags because it has all of these vegetables already in it and ready to cook in your soup broth.
• 3. When your chicken has cooked remove all the chicken from the pot and very carefuly strain the soup removing the onion and pepper. To the broth add the preped root vegetables, the two envelopes of Sazon Goya, and garlic powder and the other tablespoon of salt. You may add the pieces of fresh corn if you like with the rest of the root vegetables. Cook over medium heat until the vegetables are fork tender. about one hour and 10 minutes. I like to add fresh corn to this soup if I have it on hand.
• 4. While the root vegetables are cooking de-bone the chicken and cut into bite sized pieces. Add back to the soup the last half hour before soup is done. Serve the soup in large bowls with a lime wedge and hot Cuban toasty bread or French or Italian toasty bread. You are in for a real taste sensation. Enjoy

YUMMY AVOCADO SOPITA

Steps:

• Melt the butter in a medium skillet over medium-high heat. Add the onion, garlic and peppers and cook until soft, about 4 to 6 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add the dill, season with salt and pepper. Put the mixture in the blender jar.
• Add the avocado, and milk and 1 tablespoon of olive oil to the blender and puree. When completely smooth, transfer the puree to a bowl, cover, and refrigerate until chilled.
• Heat the remaining 1 tablespoon of the olive oil in a medium skillet over medium-high heat. Add the shrimp and cook until curled, pink and opaque, about 2 to 4 minutes. To serve, pour the chilled soup into small glasses or bowls, add a few of the shrimp to each glass and garnish with the basil, sesame seeds, and a drizzle of oil.
• *Cook's Note: We recommend Hass avocados for the smoothest avocado soupita.