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Caldo de Camarón, or Mexican Shrimp Soup, is a hearty soup full of shrimp and veggies. Usually made with yummy, comforting goodness and lots of love. Caldo de Camaron is a tomato based Mexican shrimp soup flavored with ancho and pasilla chiles and vegetables in a lightly spicy broth.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have caldo de camarones using 16 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Caldo De Camarones:
- Get 2 lb large shrimp
- Make ready 1 can low sodium chicken stock
- Make ready 3 potatoes
- Prepare 4 Chiote- Mexican zucchini
- Take 1/2 onion
- Make ready 2 green onions
- Make ready 1/2 bunch cilantro
- Prepare 1 bayleaf
- Make ready 1 tbsp chicken bouillon
- Get 1 tsp salt
- Get 1 pinch achote paste
- Get 1 pinch cumin
- Make ready 1 pinch new mexico chili powder
- Make ready 2 roma tomatoes
- Take 1 minced garlic clove
- Make ready 1 tbsp olive oil
Whether it's cold or warm outside this soup will. Caldo de camaron is a Mexican soup featuring tender pieces of shrimp, chayote squash, and carrots in a broth made with chilis and stewed tomatoes. The dish can be found throughout Mexico, and its origins lie with the ancient Nayarit, who used to prepare a spicy chili-based soup with shrimp Caldo de camaron is a mildly spicy shrimp soup with a mix of vegetables — usually carrots, tomatoes, and potatoes. It's usually a bright red soup that is quite refreshing because of the tomatoes in there.
Instructions to make Caldo De Camarones:
- start by cleaning and devaining shrimp. save your shells you will need to bring those to a simmer for about 15-20 minutes with 2 cups of water. This will be your stock base for soup.
- peel and dice potatoes to bite size pieces I preboil these so that my soup is not all starchy. boil 10-12 minutes till tender drain n rinse set aside.
- dice your other veggies, chiote, onions, tomatoes and set aside.
- in your stock pot add olive oil white onions and tomatoes, and garlic give a quick cook till your onions are sweated down. ( about 3-4 min)
- now add your seasonings and give a quick minute to cook.
- add your chicken stock & strain your shrimp stock to pot. Add your bayleaf and your chopped chiote, let come to a simmer taste for salt & seasonings add more to your liking.
- once your veggies are tender add your potatoes back and your shrimp. When shrimp just turn pink about 6-7 minutes turn off.
- take out bayleaf, top with scallions, and cilantro.
- serve with lime wedges and chips or tortillas..
It's served with fresh lime so you can adjust the acidity in your soup. I like around ½ lime for each bowl of soup. The caldo de camaron is done. Ladle the hot soup into individual serving bowls and garnish each serving with chopped avocado, chopped red onion, fresh chopped cilantro, and a squeeze of fresh juice from a lime wedge. Store any leftover soup in the refrigerator or freezer.
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