"Pozole" by Kate S

For me, the best thing about the winter time is coming home to eat warm pozole. Pozole is a Mexican soup that uses hominy. Hominy is made from maize. There are two types of pozole, green pozole, and red pozole. Today I will be showing you how to make red pozole. This dish something I have been eating my whole life. My mom makes pozole whenever it rains. She learned how to make it from my grandma, who learned how to make it from her mom. Although my grandma was taught to make it, over the years she has perfected it. Everyone in my family knows if they want amazing pozole they have to come to my grandma’s house. I am lucky enough to have a mother who is also amazing at making it. But my mom says that she still can not make it without having to call my grandma at least twice. Today I thought I'd try and teach you how to make pozole since it is starting to get colder and rain almost every week. I called grandma to get all the information right from the source. While following this recipe keep in mind this is meant to feed a whole family. Don’t worry it is a very easy and simple dish to make.
Ingredient list (meant to serve a big family)

• ●  6lb Pork Meat
  
• ●  A big can of hominy
  
• ●  2 Tomatoes
  
• ●  2 Chile anchos
  
• ●  2 New Mexico chiles
  
• ●  4 Cloves of garlic
  
• ●  Black pepper
  
• ●  4 Cloves
  
• ●  Mexican oregano
  Instructions Step one
  Fill a big pot up with water and salt. After doing that add all of the meat. Put this mixture
  to boil.
  Step two
  After the mixture boils for a good 30 minutes you add the hominy.
  Step three
  In a blender, you will add together the tomatoes, chilis, pepper, oregano, and salt.
  Step four
  Once blended to a Puree you add the sauce to the mixture of water, meat, and hominy.
  Step five
  Now, let the soup simmer for a good three hours.
  Step six
  Feel free to add Cabbage, onion, radish, lemon, and Tapatio for spice, and don't forget
  your tostadas.
  Step seven
  

Finally! You can now eat and enjoy your pozole with your whole family.
Pozole is really important to my family because it always brought us together. When my grandma would make it she would invite everyone over all my uncles and aunts, and even my extended family would come over. Pozole was an excuse for family to get together so we can all catch up on everyone’s life. When I was younger, I remember coming over to my grandma’s house and smelling the pozole and asking who was coming over this time. It was always a long list of names. These days were always the best.
My grandma always makes pozole on Christmas with the addition of tamales of course. Tamales are a Mexican dish made with a corn-based masa. My grandma only makes tamales once or twice a year because they talk a long time to cook and also it takes a whole team to get together and make them. Tamales are normally holiday food or just something we eat on only special occasions. Normally the day before serving tamales everyone gets together and we all create an assembly line to make tamales in the fastest way possible. You get the dried corn husk and smear the masa on it and then decide what kind of tamale you want to make. My favorite type of tamale is chicken with red mole, cheese and jalapeno, or chile Verde. Some people like to make sweet tamales with pineapple, strawberry, or just regular corn. Tamales and pozole are the best together.
Pozole is a classic Mexican dish that contains pork and hominy. It is a very easy dish that just needs to be prepared a couple of hours in advance. Pozole is super delicious, and the perfect food for all seasons but more so winter. Now that you have a recipe to follow I hope you make it and enjoy it. I also hope you share it with your entire family and it has the same effect on your family as it does on mine. I hope it brings you guys together and gives you a reason to get together the same way it did for me.