Pablos Traditional Jalisco Pozole Soup Recipes

Steps:

• Add meat to about 5 quarts of water. Stir in water and bring to a boil. Add garlic and hominy. Cook 2-3 hours until meat is tender. Strain off foam and fat. Add prepared chile and salt to taste. Cook until hot.
• To prepare chile, take seeds and veins out of 10 long red smooth skinned dried chiles. Soak in hot water for 15 minutes. Remove chiles and blend with a little of the meat stock. Strain mixture and add to pozole.
• To serve:.
• Serve pozole in bowls like soup. Each person may add oregano, onion, lettuce to taste and squeeze on lime juice as desired. Serve with tostadas.
• Buen Perfecto!

Steps:

• In a large pan.
• Saute onions in lard or bacon drippings until clear.
• Add garlic and spices and cook another two minutes.
• Add meat, green chili, rinsed hominy and beans.
• The beans are not traditional but we like them.
• Cook another two minutes.
• Pour stock over all.
• Add salt to taste.
• Simmer, covered, about 1hour.
• Pass cilantro and lime wedges for those who like a pinch of cilantro and a squeeze of lime over their soup.
• I serve this with large corn chips and cold melon.

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:

• 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.