Chicken Pozole Soup
Makes:
6 servings
This traditional Mexican soup has a deep flavor using a whole chicken. Hominy can be found in the canned food aisle of the grocery store.
Ingredients
- 1 whole chicken, skinned and cut into pieces
- 8 cups water
- 1/2 cup onion, chopped
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 4 tablespoons chili powder
- 1 can (8 ounces) tomato sauce, low-sodium
- 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
- 5 cups canned hominy, white or yellow, rinsed and drained (2 - 15 ounce cans)
- 3 cups iceberg lettuce, shredded
- 1 lime (cut into 6 wedges)
Directions
- Wash hands with soap and water.
- Put chicken pieces in a large pot and cover with the 8 cups of water. Simmer over medium heat for 1 hour.
- Add the chopped onion, pepper, chili powder, tomato sauce, and oregano to simmering chicken.
- After the chicken is thoroughly cooked take the pieces out of the pot and remove most of the bones from the chicken and the pot.
- Return chicken to the pot.
- Add the rinsed hominy to the pot of chicken and simmer for another 45 minutes.
- Serve with lettuce and a wedge of lime.
Notes
Pictorial Recipes
Oregon State University Cooperative Extension Service
Oregon Family Nutrition Program
Recipe submitted by Lynn Myers Steele, 2000
