Authentic Posole

Authentic Posole

Seriously tastes just like how my aunt makes it....and she's authentic.

Ingredients:

3 lb. pork shoulder, BONE IN. 

2 onions (keep separate) (only need 1 onion if doing 1-day directions, 2 onions if making the broth ahead of time)

4 garlic cloves

1 tsp. cumin

1 tsp. oregano

1 tsp. red pepper flakes

4 cups water

1/4 cup butter (only if doing 2-day recipe)

1 jalapeno

4 cups hominy (Mexican corn, in the Hispanic foods isle. Picture of can provided for reference)

Salt to taste

Cilantro

Lemon juice

Shredded iceberg lettuce

2 day crock pot directions (more flavorful):

1. Place pork shoulder, one onion (quartered), garlic, cumin, oregano, red pepper flakes, and water in crock pot. Cook on low for 8 hours until meat is extremely tender. 

2. Refrigerate for a few hours (or overnight) for the fat to settle on top. 

3. Skim off the fat with a large spoon (but do not discard). Shred meat (removing any fat) and store in fridge. Place bones and fat back into the crock pot and cook on high for 4 hours. 

4. Strain broth through a fine-mesh strainer/cheese cloth. Discard bones, onions, and any other solids. 

5. In a large soup pot, melt butter. Add second onion (chopped) and jalapeno (chopped). Cook until tender. Add hominy (drained) and cook a few more minutes. Add broth and bring to a boil. Simmer 1 hour.
6. Add shredded meat and heat through. Salt to taste.
7. Serve topped with fresh cilantro, lemon juice, shredded lettuce, etc.

Same-day stove top directions (simpler, but you get less bone broth flavor):
1. Place pork shoulder, chopped onion, garlic, cumin, oregano, red pepper flakes, and water in large soup pot. Bring to a boil and then simmer covered 1 hour.
2. Add hominy and jalapeno to soup. Boil, then simmer covered another 90 minutes, until meat falls off bone easily and hominy is cooked.
3. Using tongs, shred meat into soup and remove bone. Salt to taste.
4. Serve garnished with cilantro, lettuce, lemon juice.

Here is what hominy looks like in the store. You can use white or yellow hominy. I prefer yellow hominy but my store didn't carry it so I used this instead.