If you like your soup hot (in more ways than one), try this Southern comfort food based on Shrimp Creole, a Creole-style favorite. Besides the fact that you’ll eat This Shrimp Creole Soup with a spoon rather than a fork, this dish is everything you expect from the popular New Orleans recipe with the same name. Pair the “trinity” of Creole ingredients — onion, celery, and bell pepper — with shrimp and tomatoes, and spice it up with Tabasco and cayenne. The addition of broth transforms it all into a soup. And bacon offers an extra savory element.
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6 servings (6 cups)
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Include the juice from the can of diced tomatoes to give the broth of the soup a more prominent tomato flavor.
Instructions
Cook bacon in a large pot over medium heat until crisp.
Add onions, celery, bell peppers, and garlic; cook 4–5minutes.
Stir in broth, tomatoes, lemon juice, Worcestershire, Tabasco, thyme, sugar, cayenne, and bay leaf. Simmer soup 10–15minutes until thickened; season with salt.
