Easy Pozole Recipe – The Perfect Winter Soup!

Published on February 12, 2020 Updated on February 18, 2021 by Eden

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.

Adding garlic into a soup with a garlic press.

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).

Green chilis, hominy and pork in a dutch oven

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.

Bowl of pozole soup with avocado and cilantro

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!