Sopa de lima
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Sopa de lima is a light Yucatecan broth of turkey or chicken, spiced with oregano, clove and cumin and sharpened with the local lima agria, served with fried tortilla strips and habanero.

Sopa de lima is one of the most representative dishes of Yucatecan cooking. It is a light turkey or chicken broth with oregano, clove and cumin, defined by the lima agria, a local citrus. No one knows who first made it, but the lima arrived in the Americas with the Spanish, so the soup, with its pre-Hispanic ingredients and a European fruit, is a product of the culinary mixing of the colony. It is served with strips of fried corn tortilla and habanero, as a lunch or supper dish. In Cancún, Lonchería El Pocito lists it on its chalkboard of Yucatecan home cooking.

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Lonchería El Pocito ★ 4.4

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Lonchería El Pocito on Calle 31 Norte in Cancún cooks Yucatecan home dishes such as poc chuc, panuchos, sopa de lima and queso relleno from a chalkboard menu.

OrderQueso relleno in tomato broth, papadzules, and the black-bean and pork tamal.

TipLunch crowds clear the chalkboard, so arrive early; the restaurant opened in 1988 under the name La Cabañita.

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