New Mexican Style Chicken Posole Recipes

MEXICAN CHICKEN POSOLE

Steps:

• Heat the olive oil in a large Dutch oven over medium heat, add the chicken and cook on all sides for about 5 minutes.
• Remove the chicken with a slotted spoon and set aside.
• Add the onion and garlic to the pot and saute for about 3 to 4 minutes.
• Add the chili powder, oregano, and cumin.
• Add the hominy and the chicken broth. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to low.
• Add the chicken to the pot.
• Simmer for 30 minutes with the lid on the pot.
• Season with salt and freshly ground black pepper.Garnish with coarsely chopped cilantro, shredded green cabbage, chopped green onions, sliced radishes, chopped roasted jalapeno chilies, lime wedges. Serve with warm corn tortillas.

GREEN CHILE CHICKEN POSOLE RECIPE

Steps:

• Add the water, posole, chicken thighs, salt, pepper and green chile spice blend to a Dutch oven or soup pot.
• Bring to a boil. Reduce to a simmer and simmer for 30 minutes.
• Remove the chicken thighs and let cool. Once cool, remove meat from the bone, tear and cut chicken into small pieces. You should get 1 ½ - 2 cups of chicken. Any more than 2 cups can be put aside for another use.
• To the posole, add the onion, garlic, oregano, and cumin/coriander. Simmer for 15 minutes. If it starts to get too thick, add more water. I usually end up adding 1 - 1 ½ cups additional water.
• Add the chicken, chile and lime juice. Simmer for another 15 minutes or until posole is tender.
• Taste for seasoning and adjust if needed.
• Serve immediately or let cool and refrigerate until ready to eat. Reheat and serve.

EASY CHICKEN POSOLE

Steps:

• Heat 2 tablespoons canola oil in a deep skillet over medium-high heat. Add chicken breasts, and cook until no longer pink and juices run clear, about 20 minutes. Remove from skillet, drain, and cool. When completely cooled, shred chicken with a fork.
• Heat remaining 2 tablespoons canola oil in the same skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir onion and garlic until soft and transparent, about 5 minutes. Return shredded chicken to the skillet. Stir in the chicken broth, water, oregano, salt, and chili powder. Reduce heat to low, cover, and cook about 90 minutes. Stir in the hominy and cook until tender, about 15 minutes more. Taste to adjust seasonings, adding more salt and chili powder, if desired. Serve in soup bowls with1 tostada shell per serving. Garnish as desired.

NEW MEXICAN POSOLE

Steps:

• Combine all the ingredients, except the salt and hominy in a pot.
• Simmer the stew over low to moderate heat, uncovered, for 2 - 3 hours until the meat is very tender. If the mixture becomes too dry while cooking, add more water. (About mid way through this time, I fish out the chiles and gently scrape the now fully reconstituted inner flesh from the paper like skins. Stir the chile flesh back into the stew and throw the skins away.) About 1/2 hour before the stew is done add canned hominy.
• When posole is done, add salt to taste. The stew should be a sort of soupy stew, best served like chili, in bowls.

NEW MEXICAN POZOLE

Steps:

• Drain soaked hominy and put in large soup pot. Cover with water and bring to boil. Let simmer briskly for 1 hour.
• While hominy is cooking, make red chile purée: Toast dried chiles lightly in cast-iron skillet or stovetop grill, just until fragrant. Wearing gloves, slit chiles lengthwise with paring knife. Remove and discard stems and seeds. Put chiles in saucepan and cover with 4 cups water. Simmer 30 minutes and let cool. In blender, purée chiles to a smooth paste using some cooking water as necessary. Purée should be of milkshake consistency.
• Season pork belly and pork shoulder generously with salt and pepper. After posole has cooked 1 hour, add pork shoulder, pork belly, onion stuck with cloves, bay leaf, garlic and cumin. Add enough water to cover by 2 inches, then return to a brisk simmer. While adding water occasionally and tasting broth for salt, simmer for about 2 1/2 hours more, until meat is tender and posole grains have softened and burst. Skim fat from surface of broth.
• Stir in 1 cup chile purée and simmer for 10 minutes. Taste and correct seasoning. (At this point, posole can be cooled completely and reheated later. Refrigerate for up to 3 days.)
• To serve, ladle posole, meat and broth into wide bowls. Pass bowls of diced onion, lime wedges, cilantro and oregano, and let guests garnish to taste.