Sopas

Sopas is a Pinoy pasta soup dish made up of usually macaroni elbow with sautéed chicken and pork, flavoured with milk. To most Pinoy this is a comfort food, especially during the cold rainy seasons. Sopas is serve as a breakfast and a merienda dish. It is usually available in karinderias, office and school canteens.

It is now winter on this part of Australia the temperature usually drops to a single digit, even though there is no snow it is still really chilly specialty to us Pinoys who are used to tropical climate. Sopas is just the right food to enjoy during this Australian winter seasons.

Here is how I made my sopas, enjoy.

Ingredients:

2 cups macaroni elbow pasta
1/2 kilo chicken thighs
1/4 kilo pork
1 cup mixed vegetables
1 small bundle, spring onion, chopped
1/2 head garlic, crushed
1/2 head garlic, chopped
1 small size onion quartered
1 medium size onion, chopped
1/4 cup fish sauce
1/2 cup evaporated milk
1 tsp. peppercorns
salt and pepper
cooking oil

Cooking procedure:

Put the chicken and pork in a large pot, add enough water to cover meat to at least 2” above. Add in crushed garlic, quartered onion and peppercorn. Bring to a boil and simmer for 15 to 20 minutes or until chicken start to fall off from the bones. Add more water as necessary, remove scum that rises. When done separate the meat from the broth, using a sieve filter out residue and scum from the broth, keep aside. Let cool down the chicken and pork, shred the chicken and cut pork into strips, set aside. Using same pot sauté garlic and onion until fragrant, add in chicken and pork, stir cook for a minute. Add in fish sauce stir cook for 1 to 2 minutes, how add in the reserved broth add more water as necessary. Bring to a boil, add in the macaroni pasta and simmer for 10 to 15 minutes or until al dente and stirring occasionally, add more water if required. Add in the mixed vegetables and continue to cook for 2 to 3 minutes, season with salt and pepper to taste. When ready to serve add in the milk and garnish with spring onion.

See other Sopas recipes; 

Beef Sopas, Beef Buto Buto 
Oxtail Sopas, Oxtail with Macaroni Soup 
Corned Beef Sopas 
Chicken Sopas 
Seafood Sopas 

See related noodle soup dish:

La Paz Batchoy
Lomi Special
Pansit Lomi
Pansit Miki Soup
Pansit Molo
Patula Misua Soup
Seafood Lomi
Sotanghon Noodle Soup
Vigan Miki