How-To Video: Campbell’s® Caldo Tlapeno

Melissa Guerra, one of TLK’s featured chefs, is an 8^th generation Texan, and self-taught culinary expert and food historian living in San Antonio. Melissa will be sharing her recipe secrets with TLK in a series of how-to videos that recreate authentic Latin dishes. In this video, Melissa tackles caldo tlapeno, a very spicy soup named for a region near Mexico City. The heat comes from the addition of chipotle chiles in adobo, while the cheese and avocado toppings help temper the dish.

Below, Melissa walks TLK viewers through an easy, at-home Caldo Tlapeno, which you can find on the TLK site and make alongside. Utilizing a simple can of Campbell’s® chicken noodle soup, winter is the perfect time to simmer a pot of this spicy soup to take you through the week!

Melissa Guerra, born and raised on a working cattle ranch in South Texas, specializes in the foods of the Americas, especially Texas regional, Mexican, and Latin American cuisine. A cooking course instructor and public speaker, Guerra owns andoperates a website and storefront, The Latin Kitchen Market, dedicated to providing top quality Latin American kitchenware and ingredients. Her newest store at the Pearl Brewery in San Antonio—also the location of the new Culinary Institute of America’s Center for Foods of the Americas—was designated as the #1 shopping destination in San Antonio, the #3 shopping destination in the United States by Lonely Planet Guidebook (2011).  Guerra’s cookbook Dishes from the Wild Horse Desert: Norteño Cuisine of South Texas (Wiley, 2006) was a finalist for a James Beard Award in the category of Foods of the Americas, and an International Association of Culinary Professionals award in the same category.

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