Our recipe today shares a delicious and easy hearty Mexican vegetable soup in two ways (meat and meatless vegetable Mexican soup) that will fill your belly and taste fantastic.
We make the verduras Mexican vegetable soup in an Instant Pot, and we will share our vegetable soup recipe with you to make a Mexican vegetable dish any time.
If you have a home with many different eating lifestyles or prefer meat or meatless, this easy bold meat and meatless Mexican meat and meatless soup will become one of your favorites!
The flavor of Sopa de verduras, translated as Mexican Vegetable soup, is as bold and spicy as you make it, so you are in full control of the end product, and the versatility of ingredients is another reason this is one of our favorite recipes!
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Why You’ll Love The Meat and Meatless Vegetable Mexican Soup
- You can make this delicious full-bodied Mexican soup ahead of time and should
- the ingredients are easy to find for the vegetable soup
- The recipe can be accompanied by meat or without
- You can add a tiny pasta after cooking if you prefer a light edition of starch and carb.
- The flavor is similar to Cheesecake factory Mexican Vegetable Soup.
- The recipe can be used for the Mexican Vegetable Soup Weight Watchers program.
- This is an easy portable item for those attending a party when placed in the proper storage container.
- Our recipe for the vegetable soup with a Mexican flair can be increased or decreased as needed (feeding more or fewer people)
Kitchen Essentials To Make Mexican Vegetable Meat And Meatless Soup
- Instant Pot (but you could use your dutch oven or soup pot on your stovetop)
- a Knife for cutting
- A vegetable peeler – for the celery (take the ribbing off the celery. See my reason here)
- Cutting surface (cutting board)
- Wooden spoon
Serving Bowls That Make A Difference
Make sure you have a good set of pasta and soup bowls like ours because they make a difference in presentation and make us look forward to eating.
We recently added these to our dish sets, and we love them because…
- dishwasher safe
- These are 45-ounce ceramic and gray.
- The Vancasso Navio pasta bowls come in a set of 4
- 9.1″ wide and 2.2″ deep, so much better than many regular salad bowls!
Mexican Vegetable Soup Ingredients
- water
- white onion
- zucchini
- red or orange bell pepper
- roasted corn
- garlic
- everything but the elote
- citrusy garlic
- tomato paste
- vegetarian vegetable broth or chicken broth
- lime
- green onion tops
- red onion
- queso fresco
- garbanzo beans
- sausage or chorizo
- Tortilla chips optional
How To Make Our instant pot mexican vegetable soup
Now you can make the tasty vegetable soup using our easy ingredients and instructions.
Step 1: Instant Pot Prep For Veggie Soup with Meatless Protein
Add a few drops of water to the base of the instant pot liner.
Then choose the saute mode.
Step 2: Sweat the Veggies
Place your carrots, zucchini, white onion, and roasted frozen corn in the base of the Instant Pot.
Next, add the bell pepper.
Stir.
Step 3: Add Flavorful Mexican-Like Spices For Spicy Mexican Vegetable Soup
Sprinkle generously with Everything but the Elote and the Citrusy Garlic blend, and top of the stack of veggies with the garlic cloves.
Mix.
Now that your veggies have sweated a bit, they should be more translucent and soft.
You will see the change in the veggies, just add in the tomato paste and mix well.
Then, add the soup broth, and follow that with water, bringing it up to the 1/2 marker in the Instant Pot Liner.
Zest about 1 – 2 teaspoons of lime into the mix.
Stir very well.
Turn off saute mode. Replace the lid, and close the valve. Turn the pot to Soup—program for 13 minutes.
We suggest topping our soup off with our Avocado Sauce.
It is straightforward to make, and you’ll want to prepare it before making the soup!
Step 5: Prep the Instant Pot Mexican Veggie Soup Toppings
While the soup’s flavor is awesome, the toppings complete the bold flavor.
You’ll want to do the following while the soup is coming up to pressure and cooking:
- chop your red onion
- Chop your green onion tops
- Cut the queso fresco into baby pieces
Set the prepared topping aside and make sure to have your Avocado Crema ready as well as hot sauce if you like that too!
By the way, you can even top your Mexican vegetable soup with salsa verde, in case I forgot to mention that, and it is delicious!
Meat Or Meatless?
You’ve got options when you make this Mexican vegetable soup with lime and avocado, and we’ve shared them under “optional ingreidnets” below,” so make sure to check them out.
Follow #6 For Meat
Go to step #7 For Meatless
Step 6: Prep the Instant Pot Mexican Soup With Sausage
You can use any sausage: hot, mild, sweet, or chorizo.
Meatless CHORIZO Is another great option!
Crumble it while frying in a pan, following the cooking directions on the package, then drain in a colander to get the grease out and set aside.
Jump to Step #8: Continue making the Soup, as the next step is meatless.
#7 Prep The Meatless Instant Pot Mexican Soup
For meatless options, you can use any of the following: Firm tofu cubes, TVP meatballs (homemade), and our prime choice, GARBANZO Beans!
Open a can of garbanzo beans, drain, rinse, and set aside as chickpeas are a fabulous wholesome protein.
#8 Fill Your Meat and Meatless Vegetable Mexican Soup Bowls
No matter how you prepare your soup, you will be delighted with the flavor.
Once the Instant Pot savory soup has finished cooking, you can either allow it to release naturally or release the pressure (carefully) yourself.
After removing the lid, squeeze the juice of one lime into the soup, then stir.
If you have chosen to eat your soup as Instant Pot Mexican soup with sausage, place the sausage in the bottom of the serving bowl, then scoop from the bottom for the veggies and then a few ladles of the broth.
Top it with our Avocado crema sauce, red onions, green onions, and a few tortilla chips.
Other Ingredients You Could Use
The beauty of this Mexican-inspired vegetable soup is its versatility in ingredients and all your options.
- Add black beans to the soup
- top off with escarole for greens
- add peas or carrots
- Use Cotija cheese instead of Queso Fresco
- Add shredded red cabbage atop the soup
- place guac on top instead of ourAvcado sauce
- make Mexican vegetable soup with cabbage
- For meat, you can even create a Mexican vegetable soup with chicken
- For a different option (from chorizo), make the vegetable soup recipe a beef and vegetable soup instead using a beef broth base.
There are so many Mexican soup recipes you can make our basic inspired vegetable soup.
Recipe For Our Instant Pot Mexican Soup With Meat Or Meatless
Remember to come back and tell us how you enjoyed the Mexican inspired vegetable soup and what else you might have added.
While this is not exactly authentic Mexican vegetable soup, it is easy to get you started on the road to a tasty soup you are sure to make more than once.
Instant Pot Mexican Vegetable Soup
Get ready to make a tasty mexican inspired vegetable soup.
Ingredients
- 2-3 Cups water
- 1 Large white onion chopped
- 2 zucchini chopped
- 1 red or orange bell pepper cored and chopped
- 2 Bags of Frozen Roasted roasted corn
- 2 Large Cloves of garlic peeled and cut in half
- 1 Teaspoon of 2 of everything but the elote- Trader Joe's
- 1 Teaspsoon of Citrusy Garlic - Trader Joe's
- 1-2 Tbsp Tomato Paste
- 1 Carton of vegetarian vegetable broth or chicken broth
- 1 Large lime
- 3 Green onion tops chopped
- 1/2 of a red onion peeled and chopped
- 1/4 C queso fresco - chopped
- 1/2 C garbanzo beans (if meatless)
- 1/2 C Cooked Sausae or Chorizo if using meat
- Tortilla chips optional
Instructions
- Add a few drops of water to the base of the instant pot liner.
- Then choose the saute mode.
- Place your carrots, zucchini, white onion, and roasted frozen corn in the base of the Instant Pot.
- Next, add in the bell pepper.
- Stir.
- Add In The Flavorful Mexican-Like Spices
- Sprinkle generously with Everything but the Elote and, as well as the Citrusy Garlic blend, and top off the stack of veggies with the garlic cloves.
- Mix.
- Now that your veggies have sweated a bit, they should be more translucent and soft. You will see the change in the veggies, add tomato paste, and mix well.
- Then, add the soup broth, and follow that with water, bringing it up to the 1/2 marker in the Instant Pot Liner.
- Zest about 1 - 2 teaspoons of lime into the mix.
- Stir very well.
- Turn off saute mode. Replace the lid, and close the valve. Turn the pot to Soup. Program for 13 minutes.
- While the soup's flavor is awesome, the toppings complete the bold flavor.
- You'll want to do the following while the soup is coming up to pressure and cooking: chop your red onion, Chop your green onion tops, and Cut the queso fresco into baby pieces.
Cooking Sausage If You Want To Add Meat
- Crumble it while it is frying in a pan, following the cooking directions on the package, then drain in a colander to get the grease out and set it aside.
Cooking Meatless Soup
- For meatless options, you can use firm tofu cubes, TVP meatballs (homemade), and our prime choice, GARBANZO Beans!
- Open a can of garbanzo beans, drain, rinse and set aside as chickpeas are a fabulous wholesome protein. We used 1/2 C per serving.
FOR MEAT OR MEATLESS SOUP
- After the lid is removed, take the juice of one lime and squeeze it into the soup, then stir.
- If you have chosen to eat your soup as Instant Pot Mexican soup with sausage, place the sausage in the bottom of the serving bowl, then scoop from the bottom of the Instant pot for the veggies and then a few ladles of the broth.
- Top it with our Avocado crema sauce, red onions, green onions, and tortilla chips.
- If you have chosen to eat your soup as meatless Instant Pot Mexican soup, place the drained and rinsed garbanzo beans in the bottom of the serving bowl, then scoop from the Instant pot for the veggies and then a few ladles of the broth.
- Top it with our Avocado crema sauce, red onions, green onions, queso fresco tidbits, and tortilla chips.
- No matter how you prepare your soup, you will be delighted with the flavor.
- Once the Instant Pot Mexican Vegetable Soup has finished cooking, you can allow it to release naturally or release the pressure (carefully) yourself.
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