Ingredients

  • 6 lb menudo or beef honeycomb tripe
  • 1 can Large can of white posole (hominy) 6lb 9oz. can
  • 1/2 onion
  • 16 Long dried red chiles
  • 5 dried cayenne peppers (Chile de Arbol)
  • 3/4 can of tomato sauce: 4 oz
  • 1 tsp Crushed dried oregano
  • 1/2 clove of garlic minced
  • 1 silver dollar size section of onion
  • 2 tsp salt

Method

  • Dice your tripe (menudo) to the size of nickels, careful to trim fat
  • This is fat, remove as much as possible
  • Once meat is cut wash thoroughly, first wash water below
  • Repeat 3 times, minimum 3 washes but recommend 4.
  • Menudo will be greasy if not washed properly.
  • Water should look less cloudy, menudo will take a pale appearance.
  • Last wash water below
  • In a large stock pot filed with water place menudo to cook with 1/2 an onion
  • Cook with a rolling boil for 3 hours until meat tender
  • After 3 hours add full can of hominy with water, should replenish lost stock due to boiling
  • Boil 30 more min
  • Chile: take long red dried chiles remove stems and seeds
  • Boil chiles 10 min until soft, save boil water
  • In a blender combine all the sauce ingredients.
  • Use the chile boil water as the base for the sauce.
  • Blend on high for 5 min
  • Once blended add whole blender of chile to the boiling menudo, soup will turn red
  • Cook with sauce for additional 15 min.
  • Salt to taste (note: this will be a lot of salt because a lot of soup) salt and taste broth until your desired flavor is reached.
  • Boil after salt for 15 min
  • Serve with pan Blanco and enjoy.
  • Add oregano, lime, crushed red pepper as toppings per bowl.