Appetizers and snacks
Yucatan Lime Soup
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Recipe submitted by DaVita dietitian Robin from Virginia.
Portions: 4
Serving size: 1-1/2 cups
Ingredients
2 corn tortillas (6” diameter), cut into thin strips
- vegetable oil spray
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1/2 cup onion, finely chopped
- 8 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 Serrano chili peppers, thinly sliced
- 1 medium tomato, halved crosswise and seeded with skin removed
- 4 cups no salt added chicken broth or homemade, salt-free stock
- 1-1/2 cups cooked chicken breast, shredded
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 bay leaf
- 1/4 cup lime juice
- 1/4 cup fresh cilantro, chopped
- ground black pepper to taste
Preparation
- Preheat oven to 400ºF.
- Arrange the tortilla strips on a baking sheet. Spray with vegetable oil spray. Bake for 3 minutes or until lightly toasted. Remove from oven and place onto a plate to cool.
- Heat oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add onion, garlic and chili peppers. Cook until the onions are translucent.
- Add tomato, broth, chicken, salt and bay leaf. Simmer for 8 to 10 minutes.
- Add lime juice and cilantro. Season with black pepper.
- Taste, and add more lime juice if desired.
- Serve with tortilla strips sprinkled on top.
Nutrients per serving
- Calories: 214
- Protein: 20 g
- Carbohydrate: 12 g
- Fat: 10 g
- Cholesterol: 32 mg
- Sodium: 246 mg
- Potassium: 355 mg
- Phosphorus: 176 mg
- Calcium: 47 mg
- Fiber: 1.6 g
Renal and Renal Diabetic Food Choices
- 2-1/2 meat
- 1 vegetable, medium potassium
- 1/2 starch
Carbohydrate Choices
- 1
Helpful hints
- Twelve unsalted tortilla chips can be substituted for the tortillas. Skip step #2 in preparations.
- Homemade chicken stock contains 30 to 60 mg sodium per cup, if no salt or bouillon is added. No-salt added broth or low-sodium broth contains less than 140 mg sodium per cup. Reduced sodium broth contains 450 to 600 mg sodium per cup.
- If reduced sodium broth is used in this recipe, decrease broth portion to 2 cups, omit the 1/4- teaspoon salt and add 2 cups of water to keep sodium low.


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