![]() Ladle portions of the pozole into large soup bowls, letting your guests add the condiments to suit their own tastes. Set out bowls of the condiments for your guests to add to their steaming, fragrant bowlfuls al gusto: the reserved onion, the ground chile, lime wedges, sliced cabbage or lettuce, sliced radishes and oregano. Taste the pozole and season with additional salt if you think necessary. When you're ready to serve, heat the meat in a 350 degree oven until just warm through (no need for the meat to get really hot), about 20 minutes. Cover and refrigerate if not serving within an hour. Add the shredded meat (there will be about 12 cups meat in all). Discard the bones and knuckles, then chop what remains into 1/2-inch pieces. Cut the bones and knuckles out of the trotters. Pull off the meat from the pork shanks and pull the shoulder meat into large shreds. Add it to the corn, along with 2 tablespoons salt, partially cover and continue simmering until the corn is completely tender and you're ready to serve. Skim the fat from the broth you'll have about 4 quarts broth. Or, if time allows, cool the meat in the broth for the best flavor and texture, then remove it. Remove the meat from the broth and let cool. (Scoop the remaining onion into a strainer, rinse under cold water, shake off the excess, then place in a serving bowl, cover and refrigerate for serving.) Partially cover the pot and simmer over medium-low heat until all the meat is thoroughly tender, about 3 hours. Place all the meats in another large pot, cover with 8 quarts of water, add 1/4 cup salt and bring to a boil, skim off the grayish foam that rises during the next few minutes, then add half of the chopped onions. While the corn is simmering, cook the meat. Slower, longer cooking only means better pozole, as evidenced by the fact that in many places in Mexico huge pots of the fragrant mixture simmer for wood fires overnight before a fiesta. Add water as necessary to keep the water level more or less constant. Bring to a boil, partially cover the pot and simmer gently over medium-low heat until the corn is thoroughly tender - at a minimum allow about 3 hours for nixtamal, about 5 hours for dried corn. Measure 14 quarts of water into a huge (30-quart) pot and add the corn (either the rinsed nixtamal or the dried corn) and garlic. About 4 dozen tostadas (crisp-fried corn tortillas), store-bought or homemade.About 1/3 cup dried Mexican oregano, preferably whole leaf oregano.3 quarts thinly sliced cabbage or head lettuce, (though not traditional, I love Napa cabbage for pozole).About 1 cup coarsely ground spicy dried red chile (arbol chile is pretty classic here).4 large (about 2 pounds) white onions, chopped into 1/4-inch pieces. ![]() 5 pounds bone-in pork shoulder, cut into 3 or 4 large pieces.2 heads garlic, cloves broken apart, peeled and halved.3 pounds (about 7 cups) dried pozole corn, preferably red pozole corn, OR 4 pounds (about 10 cups) fresh or frozen nixtamal corn, well rinsed.
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