fish tortilla soup!

8 cups chicken broth
1 medium onion quartered
2 sereno pepper
1/2 pableno pepper 1/4 diced
2 cloves of garlic
3. Medium tomatoes corred and quartered
1 chipolte pepper and adobo sauce
2. Tbs fresh oregano
1 red patatoe peeled and 1/4 diced
1 celery stalk diced
1 corrot diced
8 tortilla chips processed to powder.
Fish note: amount is at your disgression. What I do is poach fish in soup sitting in a strainer then add fish to
Bowl with soup. Ive used sunfish and crappie but soup over powered fish flavored catfish was the answer.
Have. Not tried northern or walleye but I think northern would work well.
Soup construction:

Puree 2 tomatos, 2 cloves garlic, 2 serreno pepper, 1 chipolte pepper with 1 tbs addobe sauce 2 quartered onions

In a sauce pan with tbs of butter
saute carrots and calery and pableno pepper and remaining onion with oregano and salt till carrots and cellery are somewhat soft add 2 tbs flour cook 2 minutes to create rough add 8 cups chicken broth bring to boil reduce to simmer add patato. One more tbs of adobe sauce could be added
In a dutch oven add 1 tbs of vegt oil heat till oil shimmers then add tomato cook 5 minutes add tortillas cook 5 more minutes. Place cooked puree in a strainer and bowl pushing liquid through straigner leaving solids behind. Reason I do this is because the tortilla made the puree to ganular this way you get a clean tomato/pepper base with a tortilla flavor infused.
Add puree back to dutch oven poor chicken stock and potato and onion carrot celary pepper to dutch oven simmer 5 minnutes to meld flavors add fresh diced tomato for freshnes add salt if needed.

Poach fish in soup till done “wont take long!” Couple minutes.

This was my first try at this recipe and I thought it was a winner. Though I may try some things different like maybe add tortlla durring pureeing processs to cut out the strainer step. Though I do like the clean puree base.
This was a small batch for starters and it didn’t last long. I’m heading out now to try to catch walleye for this soup and try doubling batch later tonight. Stll have catfish if no luck on the walleye front.
This recipe started from American Test kItchen recipe episode south of the boarder soups.

Update:
When I puree the first tomato/ pepper batch I used a food pressor this time pureed withe blender. Much better no need to strain. Though with a bigger batch I didn’t add enough tortilla chips still taste good.