Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, menudo. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

menudo is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. menudo is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

Menudo is a classic spicy Mexican dish that is made with tripe, veal bones, and hominy soup. It is traditionally prepared as a family and is served at communal gatherings. It's also touted to be a cure for hangovers and is often served on New Year's Day or after a night of revelry. Menudo takes time to make since the tripe needs to cook for a few hours until tender, but it's worth it for this.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have menudo using 20 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make menudo:

1. Make ready 3 lb menudo regular cut into small chunks
2. Get 4 lb patas de rez (skinned and cut cow feet )
3. Make ready 4 lb librillo amosoum tripe
4. Make ready 3 lb panal honey comb tripe
5. Take 1 handfull japonés dried chiles
6. Prepare 1 handful dried chiles de arbol
7. Make ready 5 dried new mexico chiles
8. Prepare 5 dried California chile pods
9. Get 2 dried chile ancho
10. Make ready 1 salt to taste
11. Make ready 3 garlic cloves peeled
12. Get 2 onion cut into 4 pieces
13. Make ready 1/4 cup dried crushed mexican oregano ( u can use more or less per your taste )
14. Get 1 FOR TOPPINGS( ALL OPTIONAL)
15. Prepare 1 fresh cut lime wedges
16. Get 1 chopped cilantro
17. Make ready 1 chopped onion
18. Get 1 oregano
19. Make ready 1 salsa of ur choice ( normally a red salsa like salsa de hormiga )
20. Take 1 crushed chile flakes

Some would say that I am addicted to this food while others would use the term "obsession", I just simply look at it as a necessity - a basic necessity that I cannot live without. In Mexican cuisine, Menudo, also known as pancita ([little] gut or [little] stomach) or mole de panza ("stomach sauce"), is a traditional Mexican soup, made with cow's stomach in broth with a red chili pepper base. Hominy, lime, onions, and oregano are used to season the broth. It differs from the Filipino dish of the same name, in that the latter does not use tripe or a chili sauce.

Instructions to make menudo:

1. clean all tripes and feet thouroghly and put in a large pot filled 3/4 with water, add onion and salt to taste let cook for about 3-4 hrs the tripe will become tender and less chewy.
2. in another pot add water and dried chiles and cook until tender. Add to blender with garlic and blend on high until very smooth, after the tripe has cooked about 2-2/12 hrs add salsa from blender to big pot.
3. add oregano and let continue cooking, this is also a good time to taste for salt.
4. after the complete cooking time has passed turn heat off and let stand a few minutes then serve into deep bowl and top as desired with the toppings listed above. Serve with heated tortillas, tortilla chips or tostada shells.

Hominy, lime, onions, and oregano are used to season the broth. It differs from the Filipino dish of the same name, in that the latter does not use tripe or a chili sauce. Menudo is a popular "caldo", or soup, in Mexico that includes as a main component beef tripe. If you don't know what that is, it is the meat from a cow's stomach. Now it might come as a shock to you, but it can actually be very delicious if you prepare it the right way, and that is my goal with this recipe today!

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