Spanish
Sopa de Fideos (Spanish Noodle Soup)
Sopa de Fideos (Spanish Noodle Soup) is Spanish home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre and the soup. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 6 cups chicken broth
- 8 oz boneless chicken breast
- 1 carrot
- 1 cup fideos noodles
- 1 tbsp fresh parsley
- 1/2 tsp salt
How to cook it
- Bring the chicken broth to a simmer in a pot and add the diced carrot.
- Add the chicken breast and poach gently for about 12 minutes until just cooked through, then lift it out, shred it into bite-size pieces, and return it to the pot.
- Break the fideos noodles into short lengths, add them to the simmering broth, and cook for 5 to 7 minutes until tender.
- Taste and season with the salt.
- Ladle into bowls, scatter the chopped parsley on top, and serve hot as a light plato y medio starter.
Serve it with
A Spanish dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Sopa de Fideos (Spanish Noodle Soup), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Sopa de Fideos (Spanish Noodle Soup) carries gluten. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | Yes | Alubias Blancas con Chorizo (White Beans with Chorizo) |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Light
- Protein
- Medium
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Meat or fish, Grains, and Vegetables
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Sopa de Fideos (Spanish Noodle Soup) takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
Watch someone make it
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More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on chicken, noodle, and carrot.
From the same kitchens
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Does the same job on the plate
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Cook this with your whole family
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