Authentic Menudo Recipes

MENUDO ROJO (RED MENUDO)

Steps:

• In a large pot, bring 1 gallon water to a boil. Place tripe in the pot, reduce heat, and simmer 2 hours. Periodically skim off fat with a spoon. Drain water, reduce heat, and pour in a fresh gallon of water. Continue to simmer tripe for 2 hours; drain.
• Pour remaining 1 gallon water into the pot with tripe, and bring to a boil. Stir in garlic and 1 white onion. Season with salt, pepper, oregano, and red pepper. Reduce heat, and simmer 1 hour.
• Preheat the broiler.
• Arrange the de arbol chile peppers on a baking sheet, and broil about 2 minutes, just until they begin to scorch. Remove from heat, slit lengthwise, and remove seeds. In a blender or food processor, blend the de arbol chile peppers and japones chile peppers until very finely chopped. Mix into the pot, and continue cooking 2 hours over low heat.
• Mix the hominy into the pot. Continue cooking 1 hour. Serve with remaining onion, cilantro, and lime juice.

MEXICAN MENUDO

Steps:

• In large pot (2 gallons), place the water over medium-low heat. Add the beef tripe, onion, 4 garlic cloves and bay leaf and cook for 2 hours. Make sure the beef tripe is tender and not overcooked.
• To make the sauce: Remove stems from the chilies and soak in hot water for 12-24 hours, until soft.*
• Blend the chilies, 6 garlic cloves, cumin, and oregano with a cup of the liquid in which the chilies were soaked. Strain. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
• Add the hominy or corn and the chili sauce and let it boil for 10 minutes to incorporate the chili sauce with the rest of the ingredients.
• Serve in a soup dish with onions, oregano and fresh lemon juice to taste.
• *To speed up the process, bring the chiles to a quick boil for 10 minutes, remove from the stove, cover, and let rest for an hour or until they are no longer too hot to blend.

MEXICAN TRIPE SOUP (MENUDO) RECIPE

Steps:

• Gather the ingredients.
• In a large Dutch oven, place tripe, knuckle, water, onions, garlic , salt, coriander , oregano , crushed red pepper, and black pepper.
• Bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer, covered, for 3 hours, or until tripe has a clear, jelly-like appearance and veal is very tender.
• Remove veal knuckle from pot. When cool enough to handle, remove meat from bones, discard bones, and chop meat.
• Return chopped meat to soup, along with hominy.
• Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer, covered, for 20 minutes longer.
• Portion into heated bowls and serve with pequin chiles or crushed red pepper to taste. Garnish with lime wedges.

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.

MENUDO (OR PANCITA)

Steps:

• Rinse the beef honeycomb tripe well.
• Add honeycomb tripe, 1 whole onion, 5 garlic cloves, 2 bay leaves, and pigs feet (if using) to a large stockpot.
• Add water. About 6 inches above the honeycomb.
• Cover and bring to a boil for 2 ½ hours.
• In the meantime, make the red chile sauce.
• In a smaller stockpot add the chile guajillo and the chile de árbol.
• Add water. Enough to cover all the chiles.
• Bring to a boil.
• Turn heat off and let sit for 5 minutes until soft.
• Add all the chiles, ¼ onion, 2 garlic cloves, pinch of cumin, and salt to the blender.
• Using the water from which the chiles cooked in, add it to the blender.
• Blend until smooth.
• Before adding the chile sauce, remove and discard the onion and bay leaves from the pot.
• Add the red sauce and 2 tablespoons salt to the honeycomb tripe pot.
• Add 1 cup of water to the blender to get any remaining red sauce and pour into the pot.
• Rinse the hominy.
• Add the hominy to the pot.
• Stir to combine.
• Cover and let simmer for an additional 30 minutes.
• Serve with toppings and enjoy!

MENUDO ROJO

Steps:

• Place the chile guajillos in a pot of simmering water and cook for 10 minutes. Remove from heat and let sit for 10 minutes. Using a slotted spoon or tongs, add the chiles to the blender. Also add 2 cups of cooking water, garlic and salt to taste. Cover and blend on high until smooth. Strain chile sauce through a wire mesh strainer into a bowl, set aside.
• Slice the honeycomb and scalded tripe into bite size pieces. Place in colander and rinse well with cold water. Place in a large pot. Add 1/2 the onion, 1/2 the garlic, bay leaves and juice of 1 lemon. Cover generously with water and heat to medium. When it comes to a boil, add salt to taste and reduce to a simmer. Cook partially covered, skimming off the foam on top, for 1 hour.
• Add 1 tablespoon oregano, strained chile sauce and maiz pozolero. Stir well to combine. Bring back up to a boil, reduce to a simmer. Cook partially cover for 2 hours or until tripe cuts easily when you squeeze between your fingers and reaches an internal temperature of 160°F. Taste for salt. Garnish with your favorites. Serve with warm corn tortillas or toasted Mexican bolillo bread.

AUTHENTIC SUNDAY MENUDO

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.