Mexicali Soup!

Mike loves this Mexican-inspired soup. It's such a fast tasty soup and most of your ingredients come out of a can or a box! Also, you have tons of leftovers, so it's a two in one meal deal.

Enjoy

In a large soup pot:
1. Heat up oil on med-high heat.
2. Add 1/2 a fennel bulb, thinly sliced, 3 cloves of garlic, minced and 1 onion, sliced and 1 package of chorizo sausage chunks.
3. Add 1 tbsp dry basil, a pinch of rosemary, 1 tsp fennel seeds, salt and pepper.
4. Stir and soften! (about 15 minutes)
5. Add 1 large can of diced tomatoes
6. Add 1 box beef stock
7. Add 1 chopped red pepper
8. Bring to a simmer, then add some soup noodles (optional) and 1 can black beans and 1 can of corn niblets and some chopped fresh cilantro.
9. Allow all ingredients to get to know one another (maybe 10 minutes) and voila!
10. You can serve with some grated Spanish style cheese on top, like Manchego.


Moolicious!