Recipe: Appetizing Chicken Posole

Chicken Posole.

You can have Chicken Posole using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Chicken Posole

1. You need 4 each of dried guajillo chilis.
2. It's 6 each of dried California chili.
3. It's 1/2 of pasilla chili pepper.
4. Prepare 1/2 of jalapeño chili pepper.
5. It's 2 clove of garlic.
6. You need 1/2 large of Onion cut in chunks.
7. It's 2 tbsp of chili powder.
8. Prepare 1/2 cup of plain tomato sauce.
9. You need 3/4 can of Hominy. It's the largest sized can-6lbs.
10. You need 2 of Bay leaves.
11. You need of salt.
12. It's 3 lb of chicken(can be leg or breast/bone-in or boneless).

Chicken Posole step by step

1. De-stem and seed dried peppers, Boil all peppers, onion, and garlic in pot for 20 minutes in minimal amount of salted water-about 1/3 of an 8 qt pot.
2. Use immersion or regular blender to blend everything you boiled. Be careful if using the blender. Leave slightly open and hold a towel gently on top to avoid steam explosion.
3. Strain and pour back into pot.
4. Rinse Hominy and add to pot.
5. Add tomato sauce,chili powder, and bay leaves. Add water to fill pot up to a couple of inches below top leaving enough room for chicken (don't add the chicken yet) Salt to taste and bring back to a boil.
6. Add chicken and cook for another 30-40(until chicken is cooked through).