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Sopa seca

"dry soup"

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SOH·pah SEH·kah

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Spanish sopasoup+secadry

What Sopa seca means

Sopa seca is a Mexican soup or stew name of Spanish origin meaning "dry soup". It is built from Spanish sopa (soup) and seca (dry). It is pronounced SOH-pah SEH-kah, and it is most associated with the whole country.

A contradiction only in translation. In the Mexican comida the sopa course can be wet, a broth, or dry, meaning rice or pasta that has drunk all its liquid.

This is a site about what Mexican words mean, so there is no recipe here. For the name itself: Pozole, menudo, birria, caldo. Mexican soup names are blunt and descriptive: menudo means "the small things", the offal that goes in it, and pozole comes from a Nahuatl word for foam, describing how the hominy blooms open as it cooks.

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Sopa seca means dry soup

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