Recipe book · 150 min
Pozole rojo
Red chile pork and hominy soup, topped with crunchy cabbage and lime. A big pot for a crowd.
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How to cook it · about 150 minutes
- Cut the pork into 2-inch chunks. Put it in a large pot with 1 onion cut in half, 4 whole garlic cloves, the bay leaves, 1 tbsp salt and 12 cups of water.
- Bring to a boil over high heat, skim off the gray foam, then turn the heat to low, cover partly, and simmer for 1.5 hours until the pork is tender.
- While it simmers, pull the stems and seeds out of the dried chiles. Toast them in a dry skillet over medium heat for about 20 seconds a side until they smell toasty, not burnt.
- Soak the toasted chiles in 2 cups of very hot water for 20 minutes. Blend them with 1 cup of the soaking water, the other 4 garlic cloves, the oregano and the cumin until completely smooth.
- Pour the chile sauce through a strainer into the pot, pressing it through with a spoon. Drain and rinse the hominy and add it. Simmer 30 minutes more and taste for salt.
- While it finishes, thinly slice the cabbage, slice the radishes, dice the second onion and cut the limes into wedges.
- Pull out the onion halves and bay leaves. Ladle the pozole into bowls and let everyone add cabbage, radish, onion, oregano and a squeeze of lime at the table, with tostadas on the side.
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