Fideo con Pollo
Fideo con Pollo (Sopa de Fideo con Pollo) is a traditional, Spanish soup made with roasted chicken, fresh tomatoes, stock, garlic, onions and cumin with fat-fried vermicelli..
Fideo con Pollo
half of a small roasted chicken
3-4 cups homemade chicken stock
2 tablespoons rendered chicken fat
3-4 fresh tomatoes, cored and chopped
1 Spanish onion, chopped
4-6 cloves garlic, minced
1 tablespoon cumin seeds
1 cup straight fideo (vermicelli) or 2-3 vermicelli nests
1 tablespoon tomato paste
1 fresh jalapeño, diced (optional)
1 tablespoon safflower flowers (optional)
1 teaspoon freshly-ground black pepper
sea salt
queso Oaxaca or other soft, melting cheese
fresh cilantro
Roast a chicken in the usual fashion and allow to cool enough to handle. Pull the meat and skin from 1/2 of the bird and tear or chop into largish pieces. Set aside.
Heat chicken fat in a heavy skillet over medium heat. Add onions, garlic and vermicelli and sauté until the pasta is brown and somewhat crisp. Add tomatoes and cook another 5 minutes, stirring frequently.
Add chicken, stock, tomato paste, safflower, jalapeño and black pepper, reduce heat and simmer until pasta is done. Adjust for salt, then ladle soup into individual cazuelas or soup bowls and serve piping hot with queso Oaxaca and torn cilantro.
This post is part of the Food Renegade’s Fight Back Friday!
Aileen said,
April 24, 2010 at 6:09 am
This looks GREAT ! I love soups that are so thick they are more a gumbo than a soup. And I can just taste this one as I look at the ingredients. Very nice !!
Ren said,
April 24, 2010 at 7:36 pm
Thanks very much, Aileen!
marly67 said,
April 24, 2010 at 11:25 am
Ren, this looks wonderful and so enticing. Where’s my soup spoon? Thanks for your creation and great photography!
Ren said,
April 24, 2010 at 7:38 pm
My pleasure! Thank you!
lynn byrd said,
April 24, 2010 at 7:32 pm
Perfect for a rainy, chilly night…like tonight.
but i’d eat it in bed for breakfast, too.
Ren said,
April 24, 2010 at 7:40 pm
It’s healing, chicken noodle soup with kick-a*s flavor :)
noblenourishment said,
April 26, 2010 at 11:06 am
This looks absolutely beautiful! I saw it on FoodBlogs and just had to comment. I adore your blog and have added you to my RSS list. Thank you for sharing :)
Ren said,
April 26, 2010 at 12:37 pm
Thanks so much! As any blogger will tell you, its the comments that make it all worthwhile ;)