Beef Soup with Vegetables

The Isthmus of Tehuantepec has many dishes known as molitos or “little moles” Some are sauces thickened with ground dried shrimp or other ingredients. Others, like this vegetable-beef medley that I ate at Adelina Santiago’s market stall “Fonda Adelina” in Juchitán, are what most people call soups. It is a common one-dish lunch meal.

The flavor of the soup depends on reducing the broth a lot in cooking, so it cooks over fairly lively heat.