How much to cook menudo soup?
Cook the menudo soup for 4-7 hours.
How to cook menudo soup
Products
Pork legs (or beef) - 2.5 kilograms
Beef tripe - 1.5 kilograms
Onions - 2 heads
Garlic - 3 prongs
Cilantro - bunch
Black pepper - 10 peas
Bay leaf - 2 pieces
Cumin seeds - teaspoon
Ground cumin - half a teaspoon
Oregano - 3 teaspoons
Dried red peppers - 4 pieces
Dried Chili Guaillo - 100 grams
Salt - 2 tablespoons
White vinegar - 4 tablespoons
Corn oil - tablespoon
Homini corn kernels (canned or frozen) - 600 grams
Sugar - 2 tablespoons
Lime - 2 pieces
How to cook menudo
1. Wash pork legs in cool water.
2. Pour 3 liters of water into a saucepan, put the pork legs, place over high heat, after boiling, cook for 5 minutes.
3. Drain the pan, wash your feet again in warm water.
4. Peel one head of onion and cut into 4 equal parts.
5. Wash the cilantro, separate the leaves from the stems.
6. Pour 3 liters of fresh cold water into a saucepan, put pork legs, chopped onions, garlic cloves, cilantro stalks, black pepper, bay leaf, cumin seeds, 2 teaspoon of oregano, whole red pepper, salt, 2 tablespoons of vinegar.
7. Place a saucepan with pork legs over medium heat, let it boil, cook for 3 hours.
8. Wash the tripe in cool water.
9. Pour 2 liters of water into a separate saucepan, put the tripe, place over medium heat, after boiling, cook for an hour.
10. Strain the broth.
11. Rub the onion from the broth through a sieve.
12. Cool pork legs, separate the meat from the bones.
13. Cut the boiled tripe into pieces approximately 1.5 centimeters thick.
14. Pepper Guaillo from seeds, remove the stalk.
15. Put the pepper on a baking sheet, sprinkle with corn oil, place in a preheated oven, bake for 5 minutes at 170 degrees.
16. Transfer the baked peppers to a cup, add hot water, cover and leave for 20 minutes.
17. Put the soaked pepper in a blender, add a tablespoon of broth, grind into a paste.
18. Peel and crush two garlic cloves in a garlic press.
nineteen.Add meat from pork legs, grated onion, tripe, pepper paste, hominy grains, 2 tablespoons of vinegar, sugar, crushed garlic, a teaspoon of oregano, ground cumin into the broth.
20. Pour the broth into a saucepan, place on the burner over high heat, wait for it to boil, cook for an hour.
21. Chop cilantro leaves, wash lime and cut into slices, serve separately with the soup.
Fusofacts
- Menudo is a traditional Mexican dish, served in all restaurants in the country. In terms of popularity among Mexicans, this soup is comparable to okroshka in Russia.- At the beginning of the 20th century, Mexican families cooked menudos for Christmas and birthdays. The whole family took part in the cooking process.
- Menudo is considered a good hangover cure, which is why it is especially popular on New Year's morning.
- From Latin, the name of the soup has many translations: common, tripe, tripe, small, thin, useless, money exchange.
- Mandatory ingredients for menudo: beef offal, beef or pork legs and tendons, chili paste.
- Menudo is usually served with chopped green onions and cilantro, crushed marjoram, lime, bite with a fresh tortilla.
- Hominis are corn kernels, peeled and processed in a dilute alkali solution.
Last update Author / Editor - Lydia Ivanova