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Caldo de res

"beef broth"

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KAL·doh deh RES

Built from

Spanish caldobroth+de resof beef cattle

What Caldo de res means

Caldo de res is a Mexican soup or stew name of Spanish origin meaning "beef broth". It is built from Spanish caldo (broth) and de res (of beef cattle). It is pronounced KAL-doh deh RES, and it is most associated with northern Mexico.

Res means a head of cattle, which is why res on a Mexican menu simply marks beef as opposed to pork or chicken.

This is a site about what Mexican words mean, so there is no recipe here. For the name itself: Pozole, menudo, birria, caldo. Mexican soup names are blunt and descriptive: menudo means "the small things", the offal that goes in it, and pozole comes from a Nahuatl word for foam, describing how the hominy blooms open as it cooks.

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Caldo de res means beef broth

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