Barley Pozole Mexican Barley And Hominy Recipes

Steps:

• Place hominy in a large pot; cover with water. Add 1 head garlic and salt to taste. Cook over medium heat for 2 hours.
• Place pork shoulder, pork loin, and pork neck bones in the hominy mixture and cook until meat is tender and cooked through, about 1 hour.
• Place tomato and guajillo chiles in a pot and add enough water to cover; bring to a boil. Cook until chiles have softened, 15 to 20 minutes. Drain.
• Place tomato and chiles with salt, 1 clove garlic, oregano, and cumin in a blender; add 2 cups water. Blend until smooth. Strain mixture through a fine-mesh sieve and set chile sauce aside.
• Transfer pork to a work surface and shred with 2 forks. Discard the pork bones.
• Pour chile sauce into hominy mixture; bring to a boil. Return shredded pork to pot. Simmer pozole until flavors have blended, about 3 minutes.
• Ladle pozole into serving bowls and top with lettuce and onion and serve lime wedge on the side.

Steps:

• In large pot with lid, heat oil over medium heat.
• Sauté onion and chiles for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Add 4 cups broth and all of barley.
• Bring to a boil.
• Reduce heat, cover and simmer for 30 minutes.
• Stir in remaining broth, hominy, salsa and cumin.
• Cook for 20 minutes longer.
• Ladle soup into bowls and top with shredded cheese, if desired.

Steps:

• In a skillet, sauté onion until soft (5 minutes), then add garlic and sauté for another minute.
• Cut pork into bite sized pieces; sprinkle with salt and pepper.
• Combine pork with hominy, chicken broth, sautéed onion and garlic, chili peppers, chili powder, and cumin in crock pot; mix thoroughly.
• Cover and cook on low for 4-6 hours.

Steps:

• Cut open cascabel chiles and remove seeds.
• Heat oil in small skillet over low heat; add chiles and cook, stirring, until fragrant, 3 to 4 minutes.
• Place in bowl, cover with water and soak overnight.
• Before using, drain chiles and discard water; remove stems and remaining seeds.
• Place nixtamal in colander and rinse thoroughly.
• Place in Dutch oven or heavy lidded pot and add water.
• Slice one onion and add to pot with garlic cloves.
• Bring mixture to boil, cover and simmer gently for 1 1/2 hours.
• While the corn is simmering, place tomatoes in pan of boiling water and cook 2 minutes.
• Drain and allow to cool, then slip the skins off.
• Place peeled tomatoes and chiles in blender,puree and set aside.
• Remove excess fat from pork and cut into large chunks.
• When nixtamal has cooked 1 1/2 hours, add pork, tomato-chile mixture and salt.
• Cover and simmer gently another 1 1/2 hours.
• Chop two remaining onions.
• To serve, ladle pozole into large soup bowls.
• Arrange lettuce, serrano chiles, lime wedges and oregano in separate bowls, and crisp tortillas in basket or bowl.
• Add garnishes to pozole and squeeze in lime juice as desired, serve with tortillas.

Steps:

• 1. In a large bowl, mix cubed pork with the dry seasonings until evenly coated.
• 2. Heat oil in a large skillet.
• 3. In small batches, brown the pork in hot oil. Remove and set aside browned meat.
• 4. Sauté onions and chopped garlic in the remaining oil. Add more oil to the skillet if necessary.
• 5. Return the brown meat to the skillet and mix with the onions and garlic. Add both cans of drained hominy, and mix.
• 6. Next, pour the enchilada sauce then the broth over the meat mixture. Stir the ingredients and bring to a near boil.
• 7. Transfer the soup to a large pressure cooker. Cover and lock the pressure cooker according to the manufacturer directions.
• 8. Cook at 15 pounds of pressure for 8 minutes. Allow the pressure to come down naturally. If you do not have a pressure cooker, bring the ingredients to a boil then simmer until the meat is tender.
• 9. Serve the pozole with the following optional toppings: shredded cabbage, lime wedges, chopped onions, cilantro, shredded cheese, and fried corn tortilla strips. My family also enjoys topping it with our chipotle cream sauce (see my recipe).

Steps:

• Cut bones from chops but reserve both meat and bones. Cut meat into one-inch cubes. Put meat and bones in small kettle and add chicken legs and thighs. Add water, quartered onion, garlic, salt, chilies and peppercorns. Bring to boil and cook, uncovered, 45 minutes or until meat is quite tender. Remove pork and chicken.
• When cool enough to handle, remove and discard skin and bones from chicken. Cut meat into bite-size pieces.
• Strain broth into another small kettle or saucepan. Add meats, hominy and bring to boil.
• Meanwhile, shred lettuce, slice radishes, quarter lime and chop Bermuda onion. Serve in individual serving dishes, to be added to soup according to taste.
• Serve soup in individual heated soup bowls.