Sopa de lima

  • Good for lunch
  • Good for dinner

Yucatán chicken soup with lime, tomatoes and crisp corn-tortilla strips.

4 servingsFinal yield 2,500 g

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Ingredients

  • 500 gChicken, broiler or fryers, breast, skinless, boneless, meat only, raw
  • 160 gTortillas, ready-to-bake or -fry, corn, without added salt
  • 60 gLime juice, raw
  • 400 gTomatoes, red, ripe, canned, packed in tomato juice
  • 160 gOnions, raw
  • 12 gGarlic, raw
  • 35 gOil, olive, salad or cooking
  • 1,400 gBeverages, water, tap, drinking
  • 5 gSalt, table

Method

  1. Cook chicken, half the onion, garlic and water at 95 °C for 20 minutes; remove and shred chicken.
  2. Blend tomatoes with remaining onion, stir into broth with salt and simmer 12 minutes.
  3. Cut tortillas into strips. Heat oil to 180 °C and fry strips 4 minutes until crisp.
  4. Return chicken to soup and warm 3 minutes; stir in lime juice off heat.
  5. Divide into four bowls and top each with tortilla strips.

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Nutrition

Calculated from the selected ingredients; not a laboratory measurement.

Whole recipe

Energy
1,425.5 kcal
Protein
127.6 g
Fat
53.4 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
112.4 g
Total dietary fibre (USDA)
19.1 g
Saturated fatty acids
8.4 g
Sodium
2,706.8 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
6.8 g

Per serving

Energy from macronutrients
Protein: 31.9 g, 36%Fat: 13.3 g, 33%Total carbohydrate (by difference): 28.1 g, 31%356.4 kcalper serving
  • Protein31.9 g36%
  • Fat13.3 g33%
  • Total carbohydrate (by difference)28.1 g31%

Share of energy from protein, fat and carbohydrate (4 / 9 / 4 kcal per g), not share by weight.

Energy
356.4 kcal
Protein
31.9 g
Fat
13.3 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
28.1 g
Total dietary fibre (USDA)
4.8 g
Saturated fatty acids
2.1 g
Sodium
676.7 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
1.7 g

Per 100 g of finished food

Energy
57 kcal
Protein
5.1 g
Fat
2.1 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
4.5 g
Total dietary fibre (USDA)
0.77 g
Saturated fatty acids
0.34 g
Sodium
108.3 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
0.27 g

Salt is calculated from sodium (g salt = mg sodium × 2.5 / 1000) and includes sodium from all ingredients.

A dash means the value is unknown, not zero.

Calculation limitations

  • Nutrition is a calculated estimate, not a laboratory measurement.
  • The final yield is an editorial estimate.
  • The number of servings is an editorial estimate (midpoint of the source range or based on the dish type and energy).
  • Fibre, saturated fat and sodium of cooked ingredients are estimated from the consumed ingredient amounts; for drained ingredients, sodium is included only where the retained amount is an explicit editorial estimate.
  • Some process effects could not be resolved in this calculation.

Allergens

May contain: Gluten, Egg, Milk

Derived from ingredients – check the package label.

Food data sources

  • USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy (2018-04) · USDA Agricultural Research Service, FoodData Central SR Legacy. · CC0 1.0 Universal