Reviewed: Mar. 9, 2009

My son has been begging for fideo for a couple of weeks now, so we made this together. I used a box of fideo instead of spaghetti, ground chuck instead of chicken since I had it thawed and needed to use it up and used chicken broth instead of water as it is tradition. My husband and I didn't care much for this, but my son loved it. Regardless, between the 3 of us, there were no leftovers. I thought it needed more seasoning and more spice like chile pepper or something. I'll go back to my usual recipe, but we had fun making this together. Thanks, we had a nice hot meal.

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Home Town: Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA

Living In: Corpus Christi, Texas, USA

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Reviewed: Mar. 8, 2009

This dish was easy to prepare and pretty good. Not amazing, but decent comfort food for a weeknight meal. My 8 year old son really liked it!

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Errica

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Reviewed: Mar. 1, 2009

This is a good recipe. After cooking the chicken, I wipped the pan with a paper towel to removed any stuck on pieces of chicken, so they wouldnt burn when i browned the pasta. I browned the pasta in butter intead of oil for the flavor. I did not have tomatoes on hand so I used two cans of rotel undrained. Other than that, I followed the recipe exactly. It was a little spicy. I will leave out the salt and pepper next time. Also, I used cheddar cheese on top, but mexican cheese would have been even better. Easy to make and liked by all.

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Reviewed: Feb. 27, 2009

Very tasty and flavourful, my partner is half Mexican and he quite enjoyed it. Use a large skillet because the pasta is a pain to mix in a small/medium one (even when halved).

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Reviewed: Feb. 26, 2009

My mom made this when we were growing up. I make them now. This is the what we call the "poor week" meal, but it is so good, sometimes I just crave it. I usually don't put meat, thus the "poor week" meal. I use fido pasta or just regular elbow macaroni and I use tomato sauce only. More tomato less water. I also add Velveta or American cheese to the pot so it melts together. I don't add chile powder or cumin, but I put garlic powder. This is a good side with pan fried potatoes or spam. Yum, with tortillas.

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Reviewed: Feb. 26, 2009

Yummy, homey comfort food. Be careful not to over-brown the spaghetti. I think you could add things like green chilies and sliced black olives to make it into a wonderful main course. I didn't use the cheese at all in order to reduce calories, and I added a tablespoon of tomato paste, some cilantro and Tabasco. Yum!

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Reviewed: Feb. 25, 2009

I have also been making fideo for years. My recipe is a little different though-I don't use regular noodles I use 1 box of vermicceli, it also says Fideo on it in the pasta isle (yelloe box w/ red lettering) and 1 can of diced tomatos with green onions seasoned in them. 1/2 cup of chicken stock or i can of water. I usually make this w/o any chicken or meat if I'm looking for a fast meal. Just melt 3 tbls butter in skillet and then add fideo stirring constantly until light browned.Then pour in 1 can of diced tomatoes and 2 cans of water or the chicken stock, bring to a boil and then cover and simmer for 10-15 min until fideo noodles are al dente. I then add more chicken stock if it seems to thick for me and then I add grated cheddar cheese and eat with a warm flour tortilla. I season as needed w/ salt and pepper, maybe some cumin. very easy meal to make.

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Reviewed: Sep. 4, 2008

this recipe was really good,BUT i didnt think spaghetti noodles would go well with this so i used long angel hair that i broke in half and added 3 spoons of sofrito and sazon and had to add more water than called for, this was really good i have made this many times since...

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Reviewed: Jun. 8, 2008

I have never tried Fideo before but I glad I tried this recipe. It was very tasty and I will make this again.

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Reviewed: Apr. 27, 2008

My grandmother use to make something similar and my mom made it as well when we were growning up. We do not use spaghetti noodles. If you look in your Ethnic or Mexican section at your local grocery store you can find FIDEO. It is very inexpensive. I sometimes use the coiled fideo or just the broken fideo. May taste less like spaghetti. I saute chopped onions and garlic in some oil then brown the fideo, dump in Mexican stewed tomatoes, sometimes a can of green chiles, some salt, cumin, a can tomato sauce and water and simmer on low. This always get's inhaled!

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Reviewed: Apr. 1, 2008

I made this using several suggestions from other reviewer: used rotel, added 1 small can tomato sauce. I also used cubed grilled chicken that I had on hand and used Fideo pasta becasue is it pretty common where I lived. Kids like it & you can easily vary the amount of chili powder to suit your own taste.

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Reviewed: Feb. 12, 2008

yum! this was so good. I added some extras such as black olives and used spaghetti sauce instead of tomatoes to make it more saucy. Thanks!

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Reviewed: Jan. 22, 2008

This recipe is awesome! It is a little messy to make but well worth the mess! I could also eat this all day long without the chicken in it! It has the best taste. Thank you for posting it.

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Reviewed: Jan. 16, 2008

This could have been better, but I probably just needed to follow the recipe more exactly. I left out the chicken and added too much extra chili powder, which left it too spicy for an entree. I think it would be better if I followed the recipe.

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Reviewed: Jan. 13, 2008

I'll admit I was skeptical, but this is very good! As suggested by others, I used canned Rotel instead of fresh tomatoes and chicken broth instead of water. I also diced my chicken breast and then sauted with onion & garlic. I also added 1-2 tbsp of tomato paste for flavor & had to cook it a bit longer than stated. Will definately make this again!

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Reviewed: Jul. 17, 2007

Just okay. I think I would have liked it with tomatoe sauce so it was more "saucy". I did not add the chicken and I used store bought fideo noodles instead of spaghetti noodles.

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Reviewed: Mar. 14, 2007

This was great. It's just like I remembered when I was younger. My brother's ex-wife used to make this. I'm surprised there isn't more recipes for fideo on here. I cut the recipe in half and made a serving for three. Instead of the tomatoes I used a can of diced tomatoes with green chilles drained. Even after that, It wasn't spice enough for me, but then again, I love spicy food. Very good, authentic, recipe.

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Reviewed: Feb. 20, 2007

I'm not sure how something can be spicy and bland at the same time, but this was. Adding tomato sauce helps.

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Reviewed: Feb. 11, 2007

This is really good! I used 1 can diced tomatos and 1 can dice tomatos and green chiles instead of the 5 roma tomatos...still excellent.

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Reviewed: Jan. 25, 2007

This recipe was easy and extremely delicious. I added one chopped green bell pepper to the mix and flavored the 1.5cups of water with 1/4 packet of chicken ramen flavoring. I'll definitely make this again.

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