Recipes for Mexican Pozole
Easy to Cook Recipe for Mexican Pozole
A good recipe for Mexican Pozole can be hard to come by. Mexican food is renowned for its rich use of spices and flavor. Mexican recipes generally require use of native ingredients and spices which gives it quite a colorful look. Mexican food looks good and it tastes even better. Mexican Pozole is a kind of Mexican pork stew and is extremely delicious.
Recipes for Mexican Pozole are kind of a Mexican heritage. In fact Mexican Pozole is a renowned Mexican cuisine. A fan of Mexican food would love to get his hands on the original homemade recipe for Mexican Pozole. So with the aim of bringing to you an easy to cook recipe for Mexican Pozole, let us start by giving a small introduction about Mexican Pozole.
Introduction: As discussed earlier, in a general layman's language, Mexican Pozole is a Mexican pork stew which is generally served hot and comes as a delight to the eater's mouth. It is considered to be an occasion cuisine of Mexico. It has great ethnic and cultural value in the Guerrero state of Mexico.
In Mexico, there are special restaurants called "Pozolerías" which specialize in making and serving only Pozoles. As it is a stew, it is said to serve the purpose of getting over hangovers and is mainly eaten during the early hours of morning. It is a tasty dish to satisfy your palate when you are totally drunk and want something to get you back to your senses this is the perfect dish for you.
Despite being a hangover dish it is extremely yummy and even a non drinker would have it for its rich and tasty flavor. It would be an ideal dish to prepare for a family get together. Pozole is known as Posole in New Mexico and is quite popular there also. This recipe for Mexican Pozole is an original Mexican recipe and is easy enough for anyone to read it and later try it out at home. You can now enjoy the delicious flavor of a true Mexican Pozole in your own home.
Ingredients: Following are the ingredients required in a recipe for Mexican Pozole. The quantity mentioned in the ingredients is good enough for making this dish for up to ten people. The ingredients are as follows:
For the dish:
- one and half lbs pork shoulder
- two peeled garlic cloves
- one chopped onion
- one tablespoon of cumin powder
- half teaspoon of black pepper
- two tablespoons of oil
- half teaspoon of cayenne
- one tablespoon of salt or salt to taste
- two table spoon of Californian chili powder
- quarter teaspoon of dried oregano
- four cups of white hominy (canned) which is rinsed and dried
- three to five cups of pork broth
- one cup of diced green chili
- two jalapenos fresh and chopped
For Garnishing:
- Shredded Cabbage or Lettuce
- Finely diced onion
- Diced Limes
- Thinly sliced radishes
- Diced Avocado
- Chopped Cilantro
- Ground Chile Piquín
- You can change around the ingredient quantities according to the number of people you will be serving.
- Instructions to make Mexican Pozole: The simple steps to follow while making a Mexican Pozole is as follows:
- The first step is to prepare onions and garlic. First chop the onions and then move to peeling the garlic cloves. The next step is to chop the jalapenos. Also rinse the hominy and leave it to dry.
- As you will be using Ancho chilies for garnishing, it is advisable that you boil them in a separate container.
- Place the meat that is the pork shoulder in a saucepan and pour some lightly salted water on to it until it is covered.
- Add to the pork in the saucepan, half chopped onion the two peeled cloves of garlic, cumin powder, pepper, and oregano. This will release a mouth watering aroma of the spices.
- Now it is time to boil the content of the saucepan. Let it boil at medium heat. In case any foam is formed, skim it off. Next step is to reduce the heat and cover it and let it cook for 45 minutes.
- Now remove both the meat and the broth from the saucepan and reserve them both.
- Toss the remaining onions, garlic, and jalapenos and fry them in oil until translucent. Then add the remaining of the spices to it and stir for some time.
- Now take the reserved pork and cut it into small cubes about 1 inch wide and add it to the saucepan for further cooking.
- Now add the canned hominy and stir for a few minutes. Now it is time to add pork broth, if you are unable to find pork broth then you can simply use chicken stock. The flavor is almost the same but the pork broth brings out the flavor more beautifully than chicken stock. Add 2 to 4 cups of pork broth along with jalapenos and green chilies.
- Cover it up and cook for 45 to 60 minutes. Let it simmer until the meat and hominy are soft.
- If you want the onions and chilies to blend in with the dish then you can cook for extra 60 minutes. It is totally up to you.
- The last step is garnishing. Garnishing is quite easy. Garnish with lots of lime or wedges of lemon, the chopped cilantro, and the diced radishes and shredded cabbage. If you want you can also use fried corn tortillas for garnishing.
- As you remember we have left the Ancho chilies to boil in a separate container, when the Ancho chilies are soft enough which take about 15 minutes. You can blend the Ancho chili with one and half cups of water, some salt and black pepper, 2 tablespoon of diced onion and one clove of garlic. Blend it in a mixer and use it in your Pozole. The thick pulp from this blending is extremely spicy and can be used by you if you want to give your Pozole a hot and spicy flavor. It can be pretty HOT so beware before you add the extra spicy pulp to your Pozole.
This was the true Mexican recipe for Pozole. This recipe for Mexican Pozole will help you make your own Mexican Pozole at home. Try out this fantastic Mexican recipe and serve it to your friends and family. Let everyone enjoy the rich spicy flavor of this Mexican food dish.
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