Cooking With The Mommy-Files – Pork Tortilla Soup

By Shannon Gurnee

In Blogging Randomness

February 15, 2010

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I was originally going to make Chicken Tortilla Soup for our Mexican dish, but realized all of our chicken was frozen. I did have a pork loin in the refrigerator that wasn’t frozen, so I thought I would try it out. It was a success! It was really good!

PORK TORTILLA SOUP

INGREDIENTS:

– 2 lb Boneless Pork Loin, cut up into small pieces
– 1 onion, chopped
– 3 garlic cloves, crushed
– Olive Oil
– 3 cans chicken broth (reg size)
– 1 can diced tomatoes, undrained
– 1 can diced green chiles
– 2 tsp chili powder
– 1 1/2 tsp cumin
– 3/4 lime – squeeze juice (approx 2 tsp juice)
– Red pepper flakes to taste

DIRECTIONS:

– Cut up boneless pork loin into bite-sized pieces. Saute with chopped onion and crushed garlic in olive oil. Cook until pork is no longer pink.

– Add chicken broth, tomatoes, green chiles, chili powder, cumin, lime juice, and red pepper flakes.

– Cook over medium heat for 30 minutes to an hour. The longer you cook, the more tender the meat will be.

– Serve with sour cream, cheese, and tortilla chips.

**Tip: Use Mexican 4 Cheese blend and Lime flavored Tortilla Chips for extra flavor**

Serves 6

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Shannon Gurnee is the author of Redhead Mom formerly "The Mommy-Files", a national blog with a loyal following. She has a Bachelor's Degree in Marriage, Family, and Human Development with a Minor in Business Management. Shannon and her husband, Frank, have a large family with 6 awesome kids and love living on the Central Coast near San Luis Obispo, California, as well as traveling around the world. A full-time Social Media and Professional Blogger, Shannon also serves as a National Brand Ambassador for many well-known companies. Her blog focuses on motherhood, family fun activities, traveling, fashion, beauty, technology, wedding ideas and recipes while providing professional opinions on products, performances, restaurants, and a variety of businesses.

7 Responses to “Cooking With The Mommy-Files – Pork Tortilla Soup”

Barbara M says:

February 15, 2010 at 9:08 pm

This is quite different.
Gonna give it a try.
Thanks!

The Gosfam says:

February 16, 2010 at 8:54 am

My family isn’t big soup fans, but I think this might work. My girls love to eat anything with sour cream and chips 🙂 Thanks

Kayla says:

February 16, 2010 at 11:30 am

You gotta use whatcha have and it sounds like it turned out very well!!
Great recipe 🙂

Lorie Shewbridge says:

February 16, 2010 at 7:01 pm

The flavor sounds really good. Since we aren’t really big on soup either, I’d probably make it more of a thick topping for the tortillas and make it like a nacho type meal…. mmmm.
Love that you used the pork, we like porkloin, it is tender and lean and Bill can only have lean meat because of his liver disease.
Thanks for all the new ideas!!