What Sopa azteca means
Sopa azteca is a Mexican soup or stew name of Spanish origin meaning "Aztec soup". It is built from Spanish sopa (soup) and azteca (Aztec). It is pronounced SOH-pah as-TEH-kah, and it is most associated with central Mexico.
A twentieth-century restaurant name for tortilla soup. Nothing about the dish is attested from the Mexica period; the name is marketing, not history.
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.
