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Green Pozole

Serves
4 people
Difficulty
medium

This recipe uses the left overs from a duck, the fattiness replicating the traditional pork very nicely, however you can make this recipe with chicken or turkey leftovers too. In fact you don't need any meat at all, it is great with a good vegetable stock and enriched by toasted pumpkin seed paste.

The garnishes are inspired by El Pozole de Moctezuma a famous pozoleria in Mexico City, where they add raw egg yolk, sardines and mezcal to your bowl.

This recipe is made easier with a pressure cooker.

Additional details

  • For Duck Pozole Broth
  • 1 carcass picked clean, meat reserved
  • 1 onion, peeled and roughly chopped
  • 1 carrot, roughly chopped
  • 1 tsp Epazote or Mexican Oregano
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 1 whole clove
  • 10 peppercorns
  • water
  • For the maize
  • 600-800g tinned maize for pozole
  • OR
  • 250g of Maize for Pozole
  • 5 fat cloves garlic, peeled
  • 1 litre water
  • Leftover gravy or stock cube
  • Pumpkin Seed and Tomatillo Paste
  • 2 jalapeño chillies
  • 1/4 cup toasted pumpkin seeds
  • 250g tinned whole tomatillos or fresh tomatillos (about 8)
  • 1/2 tsp dried epazote or a couple of sprigs of coriander
  • Garnishes, all of these are optional so you decide!
  • leftover shredded meat from the carcass
  • leftover skin roasted off in oven until crisp
  • egg yolk, 1 per person
  • cabbage thinly shredded
  • onion, diced and rinsed
  • lime wedges
  • avocado cubes
  • sardines!
  • 1-2 tsp mezcal per bowl
  • Mexican oregano

Additional details

    In a pressure cooker add all of the broth ingredients, cover with water by 1cm and cook on full pressure for 20 minutes, release naturally. Strain the broth into a bowl and discard solids. 

    If making a vegan pozole, make a vegetable stock either from cube or the pressure cooker makes great vegetable broth.

    If using tinned maize for pozole, pour the broth back into the pressure cooked and add the maize, pressure cook for 10 minutes, release naturally. 

    If using dried Maize for Pozole, add all the ingredients for the maize to the empty pressure. Pressure cook on full pressure for 35-40 minutes, release naturally. Check to see if the maize is done by biting one, there should be no chalkiness, if not reseal and cook for a further 10 minutes. When cooked add the broth to the maize. 

    Add any left over gravy or a stock cube if you want to bump up the flavour. Then let simmer on the stove for 30 minutes or so to get tasty. Season with salt.

    To make the Pumpkin Seed and Tomatillo Paste, toast the pumpkin seeds until nutty and hopping around the pan, then cool and grind in a spice grinder or blender. Blend with the tomatillos, chillies and herb of your choice, add the paste to the pozole towards the end of the cooking. Season.

    Prepare your garnishes and put on the table for people to add to their bowl of pozole as they like. Enjoy.

Highlighted Ingredients

  • Dried Epazote 20g thumbnail

    Dried Epazote 20g

    £3.04 £4.35

  • Maiz Pozolero Blanco 860g Tin - Carey thumbnail

    Maiz Pozolero Blanco 860g Tin - Carey

    £2.90

  • Maize Kernels for Pozole/Hominy 250g thumbnail

    Maize Kernels for Pozole/Hominy 250g

    £4.90

  • Whole Tomatillos 822g Tin - Carey thumbnail

    Whole Tomatillos 822g Tin - Carey

    £3.75

  • Mexican Oregano 20g thumbnail

    Mexican Oregano 20g

    £2.20 £4.15