Sopa de Fideo (Mexican Noodle Soup) 🍲 is one of those easy Mexican recipes that feels like home. Made with toasted fideo noodles simmered in a simple tomato broth, this comforting soup comes together quickly and is a favorite with kids and adults.
This recipe was first published in 2017, and it’s still a family favorite.
If you love Mexican pasta soups, also try my Sopa de Conchas.
Why You’ll Love This Recipe ❤️
- Quick and easy: Thin fideo noodles cook in just a few minutes, making this an easy soup for busy days.
- Simple ingredients: You only need a handful of everyday ingredients to make this comforting Mexican noodle soup.
- Family-friendly: Sopa de Fideo is mild, cozy, and a favorite with kids.
- Easy to customize: Add chicken, vegetables, or your favorite toppings to make it your own.
-Maggie
👩🏼🍳 Instructions
Making the Tomato Sauce
- Place tomatoes, onion, garlic, ½ teaspoon salt, and water into the blender.
- Blend until smooth.
I recommend making a double batch and freezing some for later. It can be used to make other traditional Mexican pasta soups like Sopa de Estrellitas or Sopa de Letras.
Toasting the Pasta
- In a stock pot, heat oil.
- Add vermicelli noodles and lightly toast them for about 3–4 minutes.
- Do not let them burn.
- Once the pasta turns golden brown, you’re ready for the next step.
Be careful not to burn the pasta. Sopa de Fideo cooks quickly because the fideo noodles are very thin.
Sopa de Fideo is not spicy, but you can easily add heat with jalapeños, chile de árbol, or your favorite salsa.
This soup is different from Fideo Seco, which is spicier and served more like a side dish than a soup.
Making Sopa de Fideo
- Add the tomato mixture into the pot along with 5 cups chicken broth. Bring to a boil.
- Reduce heat and let simmer for 6 more minutes until the noodles are tender.
- Right before serving, add the remaining 1 cup of broth. Cook for 1 minute.
- Serve immediately and enjoy!
Sopa de Fideo Toppings
- Chiles en Vinagre (Pickled Jalapeños)
- Mexican Pickled Carrots
- queso fresco
- chopped cilantro
- chopped green onion
- chopped chile de árbol
- diced avocado
- sour cream
- crema mexicana
🙋🏻♀️ Frequently Asked Questions
Sopa de Fideo is a traditional Mexican noodle soup made with thin fideo or vermicelli noodles simmered in a tomato-based broth. It is simple, comforting, and commonly served as a starter or light meal.
Look for packages labeled fideo or vermicelli. Fideo noodles are very thin and short, similar to angel hair pasta that has been cut into small pieces.
Yes. Toasting the noodles in a little oil until golden brown gives the soup its classic flavor. Watch them closely because thin noodles can burn quickly.
Absolutely. Replace the chicken broth with vegetable broth for a vegetarian version. You can also use vegetable broth to make the soup vegan.
Yes. Sopa de Fideo is easy to customize. Try adding cooked chicken, carrots, peas, calabacitas, zucchini, potatoes, spinach, or other vegetables you enjoy.
Store leftover Sopa de Fideo in an airtight container in the refrigerator for 3–4 days. It can also be frozen for up to 1 month.
Keep in mind that the noodles continue to absorb the broth as the soup sits. Add a little extra broth when reheating if needed.
🍲 More Mexican Soup Recipes
Sopa de Fideo is simple Mexican comfort food at its best. The toasted fideo noodles, tomato broth, and simple ingredients make this an easy soup to keep in your regular rotation.
Serve it as a starter, a light lunch, or whenever you’re craving a bowl of homemade Mexican noodle soup. ❤️
Sopa de Fideo
Ingredients
- 4 tomatoes
- ¼ onion
- 1 garlic clove
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup water just enough to blend
- 2 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 7 oz vemicelli noodles package
- 6 cups chicken broth
Instructions
- Place tomatoes, onion, garlic, ½ teaspoon salt, and water into the blender.
- Blend until smooth.
- In a stock pot, heat oil.
- Add vermicelli noodles and lightly toast them. About 3-4 minutes. Do not let them burn.
- Add the tomato mixture into the pot along with 5 cups chicken broth. Bring to a boil.
- Reduce heat and let simmer for 6 more minutes until the noodles are tender.
- Right before serving, add the remaining 1 cup of broth. Cook for 1 minute.
- Serve immediately and enjoy!
Notes
- Add a splash more of water to the blender, if necessary.
- The noodles will soak up the broth. If not serving right away, reserve some of the broth. Mix broth with the soup right before serving.
- Instead of homemade tomato sauce: Use 1 8-ounce can of tomato sauce and blend with onion, garlic, and 1 cup water.
- Sopa de Fideo will last 3-4 days in the fridge.
- Sopa de Fideo will last 1 month in the freezer.
Tried this recipe back in 2018, since then it’s been a regular at our home. The taste is so good, just the perfect balance of tomato.
I meant 2019… 😬
That’s so great to hear! Glad your family has enjoyed this recipe!
Hello, please let me know if I choose to use canned tomato sauce with your fideo recipe, how much do you recommend?
I would do a 8-ounce can. Blend it with the onion and garlic. Then add to the soup.
So good 👍
So glad you enjoyed this!
If I don’t have tomates what do I use? just a can of it and no onion or garlic ?
If you don’t have fresh tomatoes, you can use canned tomatoes instead. If you don’t have onion or garlic, you can still make the soup, but it might be less flavorful. You could try using onion or garlic powder as a substitute. Hope this helps, enjoy!
So good!!!
So glad you enjoyed this!
This recipe is always into season haha but even more so during the colder weather. Can’t wait to cook up a pot soon! Thank you for an authentic Fideo recipe! Love the optional Add-Ins
Glad you enjoyed it. Hope you try it!
Hi Maggie, I love your sopa de fideo, Reminds me of my childhood growing up eating it. However, you say to replace the fresh tomatoes, garlic and onion with just canned tomato sauce. Did you mean just the tomato part of it? For me it’s the garlic and onion that give the noodles the Mexican flavor. Wouldn’t you agree? A bit confused, please clarify. Thanks
Yes, that’s exactly what I meant. Sorry for the confusion. I’ll clarify in the recipe.
The nights are starting to get cool here and I am craving soup. Adding this to my plans for easy fall meals for the family!
These looks SO delicious! Our weather is still a little hot for soup at this point, but I hear we’ve got some cozy fall weather around the corner, so I’ll be tucking this noodle soup recipe away for later.
This soup looks like pure comfort food! I love that it sounds so easy to make. I could eat soup all year round. This recipe sure looks like a keeper!
I’ve never had anything like this! I love traditional, unique recipes and this one was so good. We’ll be making it again!
I believe nonnas are famous for their noodle soup. The ingredients are simple like in Sopa de Fideo but the taste is amazing. I know it’s the love that goes into their dishes. I like the thin vermicelli you use in the soup and that you break it into pieces. Makes it so much easier to eat off of the spoon.
I adore a classic, home-cooked noodle soup like this and appreciate that your mom also fed you all the soup in the hot summer months too! Soup was year round in my house and it still is. I love all your options for topping this soup up as well!
I am bookmarking this noodle soup recipe for the upcoming allergy season. I only crave for soups then and this would definitely be at the top of my soup list.
Simple and delicious flavors in this soup. This will be so heart warming on a cool fall day. I’m pinning!
Simple, quick, delicious and easy to make. I love it.
This soup sounds amazing! The perfect way to warm up with soup and the spicy flavor.
Mexican Noodle Soup!!!! Sign me up! This looks and sounds more than delicious! YUM!
¡Que rica se ve la sopa! We grew up eating this, and I still make it. I add fresh zucchini, corn and carrots to make it healthier.
Zucchini! That’s a great suggestion. I’ll have to try that.
Omg this looks so yummy!!! I will definitely be pinning so I can give it a try!
Thank you. Hope you enjoy. 🙂
Simple recipes like this are the best! Looks delicious.
I love simple recipes. They are a mom’s best friend. 😀
My heart leaped off the page when I saw the title to your post! This recipe reminds me of my beloved Grandma Mercie. I can almost see her at the stove right now preparing Sopa de Fideo. Her recipe is similar to yours but had more of a red tomato-sauce look to it. Ahhh…your photos are bringing back beautiful childhood memories for me… This is a great way to begin my day. Thank you so much! 🙂
That’s so sweet. Reminds me of my grandma too. 🙂