RED POZOLE - VEGETARIAN

 

I made Pozole!

I like to share my special recipe that I confectioned years ago. Usually pozole is made with chicken or pork, and I don´t like it, when I was kid I was removing the meat from the dish every time leaving only the hominy, but now I can eat this plenty.

Chile Colorado (the red sauce) is the basic and what it is going to bring all the flavor.

So let´s start with the Chile

CHILE COLORADO SAUCE INGREDIENTS.

You will find a big variety of dry chiles and sauces tastes, most of all delicious, so there are many way to make the sauce depending what kind of chiles we use.

For this one I have used.

4 dry California chiles

4 dry Pasilla chiles

4 bay leaves

1 spoon of chicken bouillon 

1/2 spoon of oregano

1 can of white hominy / 4 cups

Tajin- Optional

COMPANION INGREDIENTS

1 Lemon

1/4 white onion in small squares

1 radish in thin slices

1/2 cup of cut baby spinach 

1/2 cup of angel hair cauliflower 

Bolillo or French bread sliced

INSTRUCTIONS

Remove the tails from each dry chile, place the chiles inside a pot with 1 littler of water, let them boil.

Once they boiled they are ready to be drained BUT KEEP THE WATER, if the water is still very hot please be careful.

Place the chiles to the blender and add a little bit of the boiled water and liquify it.

Once you have the chiles blended and liquid as a sauce in another pan, put the sauce to drain to keep the sauce and remove the seeds and chile skin. Once your paste is drained, keep adding water to the drainer from the pot to keep making a dilution from the seeds and chile skin.

Now the paste is more liquid due the water that we have added.

Let the red liquid boil once more in our pot, add the bay leaves, oregano, chicken bullion and hominy for 15 or 20 minutes.

Now that the hominy has boiled with the sauce and condiments it´s ready to serve in a deep dish bowl, then add 1 spoon of onion in squares, cauliflower, spinach and radishes as you wish, squeeze 1/2 lemon and enjoy with a slice of bread.

You can add extra tajin powder and oregano for extra taste.

Enjoy!