Mexican Lime Soup with Chicken
There’s pretty much no better time for an outdoor happy hour than Cinco de Mayo, which just so happens to be one week from today. Almost everywhere, the weather is perfect. “It’s San Diego weather!” proclaim too many people, myself included. Making me wonder why we don’t all live in San Diego? Temperatures hovering around 70F, humidity-free air, no pesky gnats or mosquitos…life is good. And life is even better with some chips, a little salsa and a margarita in hand.
I’ll give you a quick and easy recipe for completely inauthentic, by the pitcher margaritas that disappear as quickly as you make them, but I will also share a recipe for Mexican Lime Soup with Chicken. I found this soup on Pinterest and it appears to be adapted from an old Williams Sonoma Catalog. That caught my eye because I always “consider the source” when reading a recipe and Williams Sonoma has never let me down. This soup is flavorful, yet mild–think of it as the Mexican counterpart to a Jewish Grandmother’s Chicken Noodle Soup. I first made it when my youngest was getting over a stomach bug and it was a hit all around.
Prepare the soup before you make that first pitcher of margaritas and you’ll be forever grateful that you have something to feed the family when your Cinco de Mayo happy hour is winding down. Buen Provecho!
Mexican Lime Soup with Chicken