What Sopa de tortilla means
Sopa de tortilla is a Mexican soup or stew name of Spanish origin meaning "tortilla soup". It is built from Spanish sopa (soup) and de tortilla (of tortilla). It is pronounced SOH-pah deh tor-TEE-yah, and it is most associated with central Mexico.
Sopa began as a Germanic word for bread soaked in broth, which is exactly the job the fried tortilla strips do here.
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.
