Puerto Rican heritage and culinary traditions are ... It's also lauded as a classic cure-all, similar to chicken soup, warming up a pesky cold or absorbing the previous night's hangover.

Though it may be a deviation from your standard chicken noodle soup, asopao de pollo, a Puerto Rican version, uses sofrito as a flavoring. The hearty soup combines chicken, rice, broth, and seasonings ...

Like so many Puerto Rican dishes ... worth keeping an extra pot of water on the boil while making the soup, to spoon over the chicken and vegetables as needed to keep them covered.