Best 4 Pablos Traditional Jalisco Pozole Soup Recipes

PABLO'S TRADITIONAL JALISCO POZOLE SOUP

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!

POSOLE SOUP

Steps:

• In a large pot over high heat, combine the pork, salt and water to cover. Bring to a boil and reduce heat to medium low. Allow to simmer for two hours, skimming foam as necessary.
• Remove from heat and take the bones out of the stock. Cool and de-fat the stock. Remove pork from bones and return meat to stock. Add the hominy and chili powder and simmer over low heat for 30 to 45 minutes.
• Serve by placing soup in bowls. Each diner then adds their own cabbage, radishes, onion and lime juice to taste. Eat by dipping spoon deep down to bottom of bowl, lifting to bring up the meat, hominy, soup and layered vegetables.

TRADITIONAL PORK POSOLE

Steps:

• Set oven rack about 6 inches from the heat source and preheat the oven's broiler. Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil.
• Place the peppers with cut sides down onto the prepared baking sheet.
• Cook under the preheated broiler until the skin of the peppers has blackened and blistered, 5 to 8 minutes. Place the blackened peppers into a bowl and tightly seal with plastic wrap. Allow the peppers to steam as they cool, about 20 minutes. Remove plastic wrap and carefully remove and discard pepper skins. Dice peppers.
• Heat olive oil in a large pot over medium-high heat. Cook and stir onion and garlic in hot oil until tender and fragrant, 5 to 10 minutes.
• Stir pork into onion and garlic; cook and stir until pork is browned, 5 to 10 minutes. Add diced green chiles to pork; cook and stir until fragrant, 5 minutes.
• Pour white hominy, yellow hominy, chicken broth, water, cumin, chili powder, salt, and black pepper into pork mixture. Bring mixture to a boil and cook for 15 minutes; reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until flavors blend and pork is tender, at least 1 hour.

POZOLE ESTILO JALISCO (JALISCO-STYLE HOMINY)

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.