Content

• Ingredients
• Steps
• Method 1 of 3: Prepare the Ingredients
• Method 2 of 3: Cooking Meat
• Method 3 of 3: The Final Stage of Making Menudo
• Tips

Menudo is a Mexican stew, most commonly a ham with tripe and spices. It is eaten with buns or rice so that the side dish soaks up the delicious thick meat sauce. Learn to cook Menudo and surprise your guests for the holidays!

Ingredients

• 1 kg of tripe
• 500 g pork leg (or leg of beef for white menudo)
• 1 large onion
• 1 head of garlic
• 1 large jar of hominy
• 6 grains Pasilla peppers
• 6 grains guajillo peppers
• 4 teaspoons Mexican oregano oregano
• salt

Steps

Method 1 of 3: Prepare the Ingredients

1. 1 Take the tripe. Rinse with cold water and shake off. Place on a board and cut off excess fat with a sharp knife. After trimming the fat, cut the tripe into small pieces that can be eaten whole.
2. 2 Cut the pork legs. Rinse with water, let dry and cut each leg in half.
   • To make a white menudo, use a leg of beef.
3. 3 Peel the garlic and cut into pieces. Cut each peeled garlic clove in half.
4. 4 Peel and chop the onion. Peel the onion and cut into large wedges.
5. 5 Prepare the pepper. Boil a large pot of water. Place the peppers in boiling water along with two heads of garlic. After the pepper is tender, remove the pan from the heat.
6. 6 Grind the peppers in water. After the peppers have softened, pour them along with the water into a blender and blend until smooth.

Method 2 of 3: Cooking Meat

1. 1 Boil the tripe and pork leg. Set the pot upside down on medium gas and fill with 7 liters of water, and also toss in any remaining garlic. Bring water to a boil. Skim off the froth constantly while cooking meat.
2. 2 Reduce gas. Place the lid on the pot and cook the meat for about 3 hours.
3. 3 Add the pepper mixture to the cooked meat. Drain excess water from the mixture. Pour it into a pot of meat.

Method 3 of 3: The Final Stage of Making Menudo

1. 1 Add salt to taste. Taste the meat after another fifteen minutes and add salt again to taste.
2. 2 Add the oregano before serving the menudo and stir.
3. 3 Menudo is ready to serve. You can also chop fresh onions into it and serve with rice or rolls.
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Tips

• Serve the menudo with cilantro, onion, and lemon for a richer flavor. You can also make tortillas - Mexican flatbreads.
• Use yellow oregano, not white.
• The beef leg makes the menudo thicker and more flavorful.
• Do not try the menudo earlier than two hours of cooking.
• If you don't buy a ham from the supermarket, ask the butcher to cut the pork legs in half.
• The wild chiltepin (small, round red chili that grows in the Sonoran Mountains) is a good addition to the dish. If not, you can use the habanero pepper by mixing it with a blender with water and salt. It is very spicy, so you can add this mixture to taste - a teaspoon per serving, or even less.