What Fideo means
Fideo is a Mexican soup or stew name of Spanish origin meaning "thin noodle". It comes from Spanish fideo (noodle), from Andalusi Arabic fidáwš. It is pronounced fee-DEH-oh, and it is most associated with the whole country.
The noodle reached Mexico through Spain from the Arab Mediterranean. Sopa de fideo is the brothy version; fideo seco is the same noodle cooked dry.
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.
