Pozole Rojo Mexican Style Pork and Hominy Soup

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Pozole Rojo is a delicious traditional Mexican pork soup made with hominy. Also served with cabbage, radishes, cilantro, limes and tortillas.

What is Pozole

Pozole is a traditional Mexican soup. It’s a Chile pepper based soup with seasonings, pork and hominy served with cabbage, onion, radishes, avocado, limes, cilantro and corn or flour tortillas. It’s very yummy for anytime of the year.

Pozole Rojo Mexican Style Pork and Hominy Soup Recipe

Although this recipe has several steps and may seem a bit long, it is well worth the effort. By the way, if desired, chicken can be used in place of pork.

Ingredients:

• 4 ounces Guajillo and Ancho chile peppers (2 ounces each)
• 1 large can white hominy (drained and rinsed)
• 3 pounds pork (cut in cubes)
• 8 cloves garlic (minced)
• 3 bay leaves
• 1 teaspoon cumin
• 1 Tablespoon salt
• 2 Tablespoons Mexican oregano
• Water (5 quarts plus 3 cups)
• Extra salt for seasoning if desired

Garnish Ingredients:

• Small green cabbage
• Cilantro bunch
• Large white onion
• 2 avocados
• 4 limes quartered
• Bunch red radishes sliced
• Tortillas (corn or flour)

Instructions:

Prepare Chiles

Using a kitchen scale weigh out an even proportion of two pounds each of Guajillo and Ancho Chile Peppers. Please note: One would think by using all these peppers that this soup would be spicy hot but it’s not. Not at all.

I had a hard time finding the peppers in my grocery store. If you can’t find them in the isle with all the Mexican food you may want to try looking in the produce section.

Prepare Chile Peppers

Prepare the Chile peppers by cutting them down the center. Here I am using my Shun knife (Shun rhymes with moon). Remove seeds, stems and veins and discard. Next place peppers in a skillet and cook over medium heat for about 3-5 minutes to lightly roast. Stir constantly. Be careful not to burn peppers. This process softens the peppers and helps with releasing their flavor.

Make Red Sauce

Add 3 cups water to Chile peppers and bring to boil. Reduce heat and allow soaking for about 15 minutes. In the meantime prepare a large stock pot with 5 quarts of water and bring to a boil. After the peppers have been soaking for 15 minutes, using tongs remove Chile peppers and place them in a blender or food processor. Add 1 cup of the water they were soaking in and blend. Then add the rest of their water and continue blending. This is the red sauce for the soup. Then strain red sauce through a sieve to remove any particles. Place strained red sauce into stock pot with pork.

Brown Meat

Add 2 Tablespoons olive oil to skillet and brown pork. While cooking season with salt. Just before the pork is browned add garlic and sauté for about 2 minutes or until browned. Transfer meat to stock pot.

Bringing It All Together

Add hominy, bay leaves, cumin, oregano and 1 Tablespoon salt to stock pot and cook for 3 hours or until pork is tender. Serve with a plate of garnishes of radishes, sliced cabbage, avocados, raw onions, cilantro and corn or flour tortillas. Enjoy!

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