Note to Readers on Re-Blog: It is COOOOOOLD in NY and it’s been a busy week…so stay warm the Caribbean way…make a no-fuss soup to warm your bones with one of this blog’s top recipes.
Yeah, yeah, your grandmother’s chicken soup. I know. It was the best. Could raise the dead, in fact.
Just five minutes of chopping, and throw it all in the pot! No browning, no saute, no mirepoix, no sofrito, no roux.
Well this chicken soup may not be your grandmother’s, or even your mother-in-law’s. It may not be complex, may not feature a rich and dense stock, may not have anything at all fancy about it. But if you want to just throw a bunch of things in a pot and end up with a soothing, yummy, cure-all of a soup in less than a half hour, I think you will like my soup a whole lot. It’s a typical Puerto Rican and, apparently Aruban, style of soup prep.
The first tender tropical culantro leaves from a container on my Long Island stoop!
Important note: in this soup, my herbs were…
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