Chayote Soup with Guajillo and Cracked Hominy Corn

by Ericka Sanchez on Mar 22, 2016 (updated Mar 23, 2018)

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For a few years now, I’ve made it a habit to create meatless meals for my family a few times a week. I like to keep canned fruits and vegetables in my pantry because that just makes it easier to get creative on a whim and create a meal that everyone will enjoy.

Choosing high quality, canned ingredients, will give me peace of mind when I cook and serve meals to my family. Lately, I’ve grown accustomed to read labels meticulously and do research on new products I plan to cook with. I want to know where they come from, how they are harvested, cooked and packaged.

As a Hunt’s Ambassador, I was pleased to find out that Hunt’s® tomatoespeels their tomatoes with FlashSteam, which uses steam from simple hot water. Some companies peel their tomatoes using chemicals like *lye, which is generally recognized as safe by the FDA and has no adverse affects on the healthfulness of tomatoes. That being said, I like to make sure mine are not peeled with chemicals by looking for the FlashSteam seal like the one on my Hunt’s tomatoes can below.

As part of my meatless menu, I’ve developed a recipe that includes seasonal vegetables and natural spices. Chayote is a great, kid friendly vegetable that resembles a potato but tastes like zucchini squash. I’ve also added cracked hominy corn because it reminds me of those meatless soups my mom used to prepare for me as a child. The key ingredient is a nice amount of canned tomatoes, or tomato sauce to give it that delicious tanginess of a brothy tomato soup spiced by hints of guajillo dried chile peppers. By using Hunt’s FlashSteamed tomatoes in my soup, I am giving my family a mouthwatering meal that’s free of lye chemicals and full of simple, natural ingredients.