This delicious easy pozole recipe is the perfect soup for getting through a cold winter! The recipe is modernized from the traditional Mexican soup made with hominy and pork. It’s easy to make in one pot and incredibly flavorful!
When planning our Christmas Eve meal this past year, we wanted to do something different than the normal ham and sides. In Mexico, a traditional meal is tamales served with a large pot of pozole.
Pozole (or posole) which means hominy is a flavorful soup made with meat, hominy, seasoning, and broth. It’s truly so flavorful, warm and could not be better served with tamales.
There are several different versions you can make like Verde pozole or rojo pozole. You can also make it with chicken or pork. However, for this recipe, we used pork sausage in the soup. Similar to a kale and sausage soup we love.
What is hominy?
Hominy is corn that is processed in a totally different way to get a puffy, bean-like texture. The process is called nixtamalization, which you can read more about here.
What is pozole made of?
The main ingredients in pozole are meat, hominy, and broth. Recipes vary, but there are added seasonings, spices, and other ingredients to make this flavorful soup.
How to Make Easy Pozole Soup
We’ve altered this pozole recipe several times to make this soup very easy to make. Using one pot only, everything cooks nicely in a dutch oven like these. It tastes super authentic and really good!
In addition to the dutch oven, you’ll also need a garlic press. This is a kitchen tool we use often! Here are the ingredients you’ll need and the directions:
Ingredients
There are very simple ingredients in this soup! Everything can easily be found at your local grocery store. Hominy is located in the aisle. It’s also incredibly affordable!
- Pork Sausage
- Onion
- Garlic
- Green Chilis
- Hominy
- Beef Stock
- Butter
- Cumin
- Oregano
- Pepper
Toppings
- Cilantro
- Lime
- Avocado
Directions
First, prepare the ingredients. Chop the onions, peel the garlic, measure the spices. Pour the hominy into a strainer and let the juice rinse out using water.
After that, in a dutch oven, melt butter or lard.
Then, add in pork sausage and using a wooden spoon for a spatula, break the sausage into smaller pieces as it cooks in the dutch oven.
Next, add in the chopped onions and saute with the pork sausage.
Next, add the garlic using a garlic press and the rest of the spices. Continue cooking over medium heat, stirring as all of the ingredients brown.
Once the hominy is rinsed, add the hominy and green chilis (drained).
Cook for another minute.
Lastly, add in the beef stock and simmer
Simmer the soup for an hour to two hours on the lowest simmer setting with the lid on the dutch oven.
The flavors will cook together nicely, add salt to taste. Serve with cilantro, lime wedge and slices of avocado.
How to Store Pozole
This soup tastes just as good the next day. Store in the refrigerator in an airtight sealed container.
To warm it up, pour it back into any pot or saucepan and heat on the stovetop.
What to Serve with Pozole
Like we mentioned before, pozole goes amazing with tamales. Even store-bought tamales! Don’t feel like you have to make everything!
You can also serve it with our taco salad, which would be divine! The dressing for that salad is unreal! Those two dishes with our margaritas is the perfect meal!
More Dinner Recipes You’ll Love
In addition to this incredible pozole recipe, check out these delicious dinner meals that are easy to make!
Sausage and Pepper Sheet Pan Meal
The Most Delicious Turkey Meatball Recipe
One Pan Basil and Tomato Pasta
Simple Green Salad that Goes with Everything!
Classic Wedge Salad with THE BEST DRESSING EVER!!
The yummiest carbonara recipe!
Let us know if you make this easy posole soup by leaving a comment and review below. It’s so delicious, we know you’ll love it!
Easy Pozole Soup
Ingredients
- 16 oz pork sausage
- 1 tbsp butter, salted
- 1 large yellow onion , chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, pressed
- 8 oz green chili peppers, canned, chopped, drained
- 27 oz hominy , large can, rinse
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- 1/2 tsp ground oregano
- 1 tsp black pepper
- 1/2 tsp salt
Toppings
- 3 avocados, ripe
- 3 limes, cut into wedges
- 1 bunch cilantro
Instructions
- First, prepare the ingredients. Chop the onions, peel the garlic, measure the spices. Pour the hominy into a strainer and let the juice rinse out using water.
- In a dutch oven, melt butter or lard.
- Add in pork sausage and using a wooden spoon for a spatula, break the sausage into smaller pieces as it cooks in the dutch oven.
- Add in the chopped onions and saute with the pork sausage.
- Next, add the garlic using a garlic press and the rest of the spices. Continue cooking over medium heat, stirring as all of the ingredients brown.
- Once the hominy is rinsed, add the hominy and green chilis (drained).
- Cook for another minute or two and then add in the beef stock.
- Simmer the soup for an hour to two hours on the lowest simmer setting with the lid on the dutch oven.
- Serve with cilantro, lime wedge and slices of avocado.
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