Chicken or Pork Tortilla Soup

Ingredients

• 1/1.5 litres Chicken Stock
• 2 carrots - small dice
• 1 celery stalk - small dice
• 1 red onion - finely chopped
• 2 cloves garlic - grated
• 1 tbs olive oil
• 1 red pepper - chargrilled and skinned (is best but not essential) and chopped
• 1 large tomato - skinned (is best but not essential) and chopped
• 1 small bunch of coriander
• squeeze of lime
• pinch of chill flakes
• a little diced cooked chicken or pork
• 1 bag or salted tortilla chips
• 1 avocado (optional)
• Grated cheese (70 grams)

Method

• Fry the onion / garlic / carrot / celery in the olive oil until soft. Then add the chilli flakes to cook out
• To skin red pepper - place under the grill until well charred on all sides - place in a zip-loc bag or a bowl with cling film until cool. Then the skin just peels away.  Discard the seeds and skin but retain the juice
• Add a little of the chicken stock to the softened onion mix and reduce to almost nothing, then add this mixture to the remaining stock and simmer for 10 minutes
• Add the pepper and tomato and simmer for another 10 minutes, add chopped coriander leaves
• Crunch 2 good handfuls of the tortilla chips to the soup and simmer until dissolved
• Add chopped chicken to the soup bowl, a little grated cheese, a little chopped avocado ( if using ). cover with a few tortilla chips and then ladle the soup over, add a few more tortilla chips, sprinkle with cheese and serve