Best South Texas Pozole Recipes

SOUTH TEXAS POZOLE

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large dutch oven over medium heat. Add pork and cook, turning until browned on all sides.
• Remove the pork with a slotted spoon and keep warm.
• Reduce heat to medium and add onion and garlic to the pan, cooking just until onion softenes.
• Return pork to dutch oven and add the chicken broth, oregano, salt and chili.
• Reduce heat to low, cover, and cook for about 90 minutes.
• Add hominy and cook for 15 more minutes.
• Check seasonings and add more chile powder or salt according to taste.
• Ladle into soup bowls.
• Serve with hot corn tortillas and garishes.
• GARNISHES: thinly sliced radishes, shredded lettuce, finely chopped onion, chopped cilantro, lime wedges.

TEXAS POZOLE

Steps:

• Boil pork rib pieces in 4 quarts of water for one hour. Strain cooked down bones and reserve liquid. You can discard the rib bone pieces. Boil two cups of water and pour into bowl with ancho chiles. Place plate or smaller bowl on top of chiles to hold them under water. Steep for 30 minutes. Drain liquid from chiles and reserve. Seed and stem the peppers and place in blender with reserved liquid. Blend until smooth. Cut pork shoulder into ~1" pieces. Heat olive oil over medium high heat and add pork shoulder pieces in batches to brown. Once all pork has been browned add to pot of liquid reserved from cooking rib pieces. Add in half of onion, all three cans of drained/rinsed hominy, all spices(except cilantro) and pepper to taste. Bring to boil and hold for fifteen minutes. Reduce heat to low simmer for approximately three hours until meat is super tender.
• Serve with garnish of shredded cabbage, radishes, and cilantro.

TRADITIONAL MEXICAN POZOLE

Steps:

• Prepare the onion with the 2 cloves, peel the garlic, chop the onion, peel and chop the 2 garlic cloves, chop the green chilies and jalapenos if you are using them. Drain the hominy rinse. Now you are ready to start cooking.
• Place the meat in a large saucepan and just cover with lightly salted water. Add the clove studded onion, 2 cloves peeled garlic, peppercorns, cumin seed, and oregano. Bring to a boil over medium heat, skim off any foam that rises, reduce heat, cover and simmer for 45 minutes. Remove meat and broth, reserving both.
• Sauté the chopped onion and garlic in oil until translucent. Add the remaining spices, stir for a minute. Cut the reserved pork into 1 inch cubes and add to the pan. Stir in the canned hominy, pork broth (if there is not enough pork broth, add chicken stock), green chilies and jalapenos (optional).
• Cook at a simmer, covered, for 45 to 60 minutes until the meat and hominy are tender. If necessary, cook for up to an additional 60 minutes until the chilies and onions are well blended into the broth. Degrease the stew, taste for salt, and serve in soup bowls.