Wynette Richards

Posole

The Recipe

This makes a BIG pot. This recipe uses a pressure cooker and assumes you know how to use a pressure cooker safely. (See Variations below for notes about how to do it without a pressure cooker.)

• 3 small to medium onions, chopped
• 8 cloves garlic, finely chopped
• oil (e.g. olive oil or canola oil)
• 3 cups Bueno uncooked frozen posole (hominy) kernels (or can used dried hominy)
• 1-1/2 quarts broth (or broth and water)
• 1 tsp cumin
• 1 to 2 cups of red chile sauce (more or less according to taste, see Variations and Notes below about sauce we use)
• 1/2 tsp. salt (don't add salt if your broth is already salty)
• 1 to 1-1/2 pound boned pork (we like to roast a pork butt, but you can use any cut prepared however you wish)
• sour cream (optional)
• grated cheese (optional)
• lime wedges (optional)
• cilantro (optional)

1. Saute the onions and garlic in some of the oil.
2. Cut the pork into bite size pieces.
3. Put into pressure cooker: hominy, broth, chile sauce, onion/garlic mixture, pork, cumin, salt.
4. Stir in a tablespoon or two of oil. (Keeps things from spattering inside the cooker.)
5. Cook under pressure for about 75 minutes. Release pressure. When the pressure has gone down, check to be sure hominy is done. It should be fully "bloomed" and tender but still a little chewy. Pressure cook a little longer if necessary.
6. Serve with any or all of the following: sour cream, grated cheese, fresh lime wedges, cilantro.

1. Feel free to adjust all ingredient quantities to taste.
2. Can used plain canned hominy instead of cooking your own. In that case won't need a pressure cooker. Probably cook pork separately then boil everything together for a bit. (Haven't tried this so try at your own risk.)
3. We used chicken broth because that is what we had.
4. If you don't want to use a pressure cooker, see Casa Chimayo's Posole for how to cook the hominy without a pressure cooker.
5. We have been using Bueno Frozen Red Chile or Santa Fe Olé Red Chile Sauce. Probably any kind of traditional New Mexico red chile sauce will do.
6. You can make your own chile sauce as described in the above Casa Chimayo recipe.