Red Pepper Soup

The base for this Mexican-style soup is made with red bell peppers, which have no heat, but dried and soaked chilies are added to give it a more complex flavor and a bit of fire. If you don’t have dried chilies, the easiest way to spice up this soup is with a little Tabasco—which also has a nice flavor—or a pinch of cayenne.

If you want to get fancy, make this soup twice—once with red peppers and once with yellow peppers. Then ladle the two soups into the bowls simultaneously using