Home Cooking - Sopes

Fire Roasted Chiles & Tomatoes are essential for a fresh hot picosa sauce.

Homemade Sopes Meat & Rice and Bean & Cheese with Nopales

You can not eat out all the time, thought I would share my dinner tonight. These Sopes were made for me by my comadre. Each region and family has their own style of making these delicious tastes of Mexico.

First step was to make the masa. She then cooks the masa patties on a comal, a flat heavy cast iron pan. She shapes the sope masa into a cups like a large custard cup. The masa has a wonderful flavor when cooked. Something like a crispy taco shell but thicker with more texture that gets mixed into the other ingredients. First batch had ground meat, rice, Mexican sour cream and the hot chili, fantastico. The next batch were bean and cheese topped with nopales and hot chili. I was in heaven, ate six The toppings you can put in the sopes are endless. The best Sopes are made with good fresh masa.