Delicious Menudo Food

MENUDO

Steps:

• In a 16 quart pot combine the tripe and the onions. Add water until pot is about 3/4 full. Cover and cook on low heat for about 2 hours, or until the tripe is tender. Add the hominy, chili powder, and salt and pepper to taste. Cover and cook for another 45 minutes to one hour to incorporate the flavors. Serve with fresh onions, corn tortillas and lemon if desired.

DELICIOUS MENUDO

Steps:

• 1. Cut tripe in small bite size pieces. Cut pigs feet in 2 in. Pieces (you can get these sliced by your butcher).
• 2. Put meat in large pot with about 1 gallon of water and simmer together with salt, complete seasoning, garlic, and cilantro for about 4 hrs. or until tripe and pigs feet are tender.
• 3. While cooking add more water if necessary and skim off white foam that forms on top.
• 4. Add chili powder and hominy, and simmer the last 30 min. of cooking.
• 5. Serve with lemon wedges, chopped onion, and cilantro.
• 6. Great with cold drinks, friends and love! Enjoy delicious menudo!

MENUDO

Steps:

• Place beef tripe into a pot of boiling water, just enough to cover the tripe. Add garlic and onions and salt. Cover and cook for about 1 hour. When tripe is tender add the remaining ingredients including the hominy and cook about 15 or 20 minutes longer. Add more salt if needed. This is a spicy dish and it goes well with cilantro and a twist of lime. Corn tortillas are a good compliment.

DELICIOUS MENUDO (WITHOUT TRIPE)

Steps:

• Brown onions about 5 minutes.
• Add meat and garlic.
• Add rest of ingredients and simmer about an hour.

FILIPINO MENUDO

Steps:

• Combine all marinade ingredients. Divide the marinade in halves. Save half. Add pork cubes on the other half with the bay leaf and marinate for at least 30 minutes.
• Remove pork from the marinade, drip dry.
• Sauté garlic and onion, add pork and the unused half of the marinade and bay leaf, simmer uncovered, reduce the liquid to half.
• Add fresh pork liver if you prefer the fresh ingredient, cover and cook.
• Add tomato sauce, liver paste (if this is what you're using), carrots, potatoes and raisins, simmer stirring occasionally.
• Add peppers and adjust the seasoning.
• Add the grated cheese, let it melt, stir and distribute evenly. Serve hot.