Mexican Menudo Recipes

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.

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.

Steps:

• Wash tripe thoroughly. Remove the excess fat from the tripe and cut it into bite-sized pieces. Rinse the hominy well in a colander under running water. Wash the pigs feet well also.
• Combine all ingredients, except for garnishes, in a large pot with enough water to cover. Bring to a boil, and then reduce heat to low and simmer slowly until hominy opens and is cooked. Do not overcook. Skim the excess fat from the surface. It is best if you can refrigerate the Menudo in order to remove all of the grease.
• Ladle into bowls, and garnish with additional fresh cilantro, chopped green onions, minced pequin chiles, and lemon wedges. Serve with toasted bolillos (a Mexican bread made with corn flour).

Steps:

• Wash tripe thoroughly and cut into bitsize (1") pieces.
• Rinse knuckles and place in pot along with cut up tripe.
• Add water and bring to boil.
• Once boiling, add quartered onions, garlic, salt, oregano, red pepper flakes, pepper, green onions, japones, cayenne, and green chilies.
• Cover and reduce heat to a simmer.
• Cook 3 hours until tripe is almost clear and jelly-like.
• Remove the knuckles, and when cool, remove the meat, chop it & return it to pot.
• Throw out bones from the knuckles.
• Stir in hominy and cook another hour with the pot covered.
• Serve with sides of chopped onion, cilantro, and lime quarters.

Steps:

• NOTE use Menudo Mix instead of chili powder. The Ethnic section of somewhere like Wegmans [read very good store] or an ethnic grocery should have it. Or make your own: To make your own: two parts oregano, two parts onion flakes, one part coriander seed, one part cumin, and one part crushed red chili pepper.
• Cut tripe in small pieces. Put meat in a large pan with about 1 gallon of water and simmer together with salt, garlic, cilantro, half of Menudo mix and small onion for 3 to 4 hours or until tripe and pig's feet are tender.
• While cooking, add more water if necessary. Skim off white foam that forms on top. Add the balance of the Menudo mix and hominy and simmer for a few more minutes. Serve with lemon wedges, chopped onion and hot peppers (chopped).
• Servings is a guess.