Pork Pozole
- 32 cupstwater (total)
- 2 ea. ttPork feet (optional)
- 8 lbs. tork butt (clean, fat off)
- 1 lb. ttFresh Roma tomato
- 10 oz. tresh white onion
- 2 tbs. ttwhole Mexican oregano
- 5 tbs. ttSalt
- 3 cups tomato sauce or 3-8 oz. cans of tomato sauce
- 4 oz. ttpeeled fresh garlic
- 2 oz. ttdried pasilla chili pods (seeded)
- 2 Tsp. tround black pepper
- 1/2 Tsp. tround cloves
- 1/4 Tsp. tround cinnamon
- 2-#10 cans taiz para pozole. ( Fancy Mexican Style Hominy is the best)
- Wash corn with hot water, drain water, cover and put aside.
- Wash the pork butt and put it in a large or 20 quart pot.
- Measure your 32 cups of water in large bowl or pot and put aside.
- Next, soak the dried pasilla chili pods with 6 cups of water until tender.
- Use part of the remaining water to blend in a blender, the Roma tomatoes, onion, fresh garlic, black pepper and ground cloves until texture is very smooth. Then, add them to the pork meat in the pot.
- Put the remaining water in the pot with the pork meat. Add the salt, whole oregano, cover pot and cook on medium heat until meat is tender.
- Once the pork meat is tender, take it out of the pot cover and put aside. Immediately, blend in a blender the soaking pasillas and the liquid, ground cinnamon and add to the broth the pork meat cooked in.
- And last, add the corn to broth and continue to cook at low heat until corn is tender. Do not cook corn on high heat, it will disintegrate.
- Serve with:
- Pork meat
- Fresh shredded green cabbage
- Chopped fresh white onion
- Sliced fresh red radish
- Fresh squeezed lime juice to taste and salsa cruda (recipe available at epicurious.com
- Tostadas go great with pozole. Recommended drink: Fresh fruit tequila cooler. (recipe available at
- epicurious.com)
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Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/pork-pozole-50142879 (may not work)