{"id":6469,"date":"2005-12-21T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-21T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/21\/sopa-de-mezclad\/"},"modified":"2005-12-21T20:30:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-21T20:30:00","slug":"sopa-de-mezclad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/21\/sopa-de-mezclad\/","title":{"rendered":"Sopa de Mezclada"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span><p>Picked up this one during my days in Xalapa, Veracruzana in &#8217;00.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33032196@N00\/76088161\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.flickr.com\/36\/76088161_8d91585fbc_m.jpg?resize=240%2C210\" width=\"240\" height=\"210\" alt=\"Sopa de Mezclada\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Cut two onions, three potatoes (onions and potatoes: fist-sized) and 10-14 large carrots into big chunks.&nbsp;<br \/>\nDrop them in a pot with water just below the top of the vegetables.&nbsp; The<br \/>\nonions will reduce into liquid while boiling, so the space they take up is<br \/>\ntemporary.&nbsp; Salt the water; I don&#8217;t know, a teaspoon or two.&nbsp; Cover<br \/>\nand boil for thirty or forty minutes until everything is soft.&nbsp; The smaller<br \/>\nyou cut everything, the faster this part will go, but I don&#8217;t have any patience<br \/>\nfor working the vegetables when I know they&#8217;re going to end up blended. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>When the vegetables have softened (if in doubt, remove a carrot, check it),<br \/>\ncut the ends off of a single green chile (alternative: a jalapeno) and drop it<br \/>\nin the boiling mix.&nbsp; Cover the pot again and give it another 7-10 minutes.&nbsp;<br \/>\nBasically, this just softens the pepper.&nbsp; You could go to all the trouble<br \/>\nof preparing the chile in other, more complicated ways, but basically I want it<br \/>\nto soften so I can remove it to cool, slice it lengthwise, pull out the seeds,<br \/>\nand have it ready to join up smoothly with everything else in the blender<br \/>\n(that&#8217;s next).<\/p>\n<p>When the vegetables are soft, you should transfer them to a holding bowl or<br \/>\nalt. pot for blending.&nbsp; I transfer them so I can easily empty the blended<br \/>\nsoup into the original pot.&nbsp; Next, use a ladle to fill the blender between<br \/>\n2\/3 and 3\/4 with the boiled vegetables and the hot liquid they cooked in. 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