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Consomé

"clear broth"

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kon·soh·MEH

Where it comes from

French consommé (consummated, reduced to completion)

What Consomé means

Consomé is a Mexican soup or stew name of French origin meaning "clear broth". It comes from French consommé (consummated, reduced to completion). It is pronounced kon-soh-MEH, and it is most associated with the whole country.

French kitchen vocabulary entered Mexico in the nineteenth century. In a birrería, consomé is the strained cooking broth served alongside the tacos.

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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Consomé means clear broth

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