Menudo cooking recipe mexican style food

How to make Menudo? Mexican style cooking recipe.

2 1/2 Pound Tripe
1/2 Calf's foot
1/3 Cup Vinegar
Cold water
2 Cloves garlic
1/2 Small Onion
3 Quart Water (approx.)
Salt
1−1/2 Cup Hominy
Red Chile Puree (see below) OR 1 cup canned red chile sauce
Finely chopped green onions
Chopped cilantro leaves
Lemon wedges
Corn tortillas, heated
Red Chile Puree:
8 California chiles (1/4 lb)
2/3 Cup Water

Scrape off any fat from tripe. Cut tripe into 1−inch squares. Place tripe and calf's foot in a large bowl. Add vinegar and cold water to cover generously. Let stand 3 hours. Drain. Rinse tripe and calf's foot thoroughly. Place in a large pot. Add garlic and onion. Pour in water to cover ingredients plus 1 to 1 1/2 inches, about 3 quarts. Add salt to taste. Bring to a boil; reduce heat. Cover and simmer about 6 hours or until tripe is tender. After 1 hour, skim foam from surface of soup. Skim again as needed. Add more water if liquid evaporates. Prepare Red Chile Puree. Add
hominy and Red Chile Puree during last hour of cooking. Ladle into large bowls. Serve chopped green onions, cilantro, lemon wedges and hot corn tortillas separately. Makes 10 to 15 servings. Red Chile Puree: Remove stems from chiles. Break chiles open and rinse out seeds. Place in a saucepan with water to cover. Bring to a boil. Continue to boil until chiles are softened, about 5 minutes. Drain; discard water. Place chiles in blender; puree. Add enough water to make puree the consistency of tomato sauce. Press pureed chiles through a sieve to remove bits of peel. Makes about 1 cup. Variation: Substitute 1 1/2 cups nixtamal (cooked dried corn) for canned hominy.Combine with soaked tripe and calf's foot, garlic, onion and water. Cook as directed above.

CHILES RELLENOS MEXICAN COOKING RECIPES

12 Large Mild, green chiles w/stems
1/2 Pound Jack cheese cut into long narrow, strips.
BATTER:
1 Cup All purpose flour
1 Teaspoon Baking powder
1/2 Teaspoon Salt
3/4 Cup Yellow or white cornmeal
1 Cup Buttermilk
2 Eggs, slightly beaten

Parch and peel chiles leaving stems on. Cut small slit below the stem, removing seeds if desired. Insert strips of Jack cheese being careful not to split chile. Prepare batter: Sift flour with baking powder and salt, then add cornmeal. Blend buttermilk and slightly beaten eggs, then combine milk mixture with dry mixture and blend together. Slightly moisten each chile with water dip
in plain flour, then in batter. Allow to drain slightly and drop in deep fat which has been heated to 375 F. Fry until golden. Drain on paper towels. Keep warm on platter in 300 F. oven while completing frying and serve immediately.

CHALUPAS MEXICAN COOKING RECIPES

How to make Chalpas mexican style?

Vegetable oil
12 Corn tortillas (the thinner the better)
6 Cups Refried Beans (or less)
1/2 Pound Cheddar cheese (sharp), grated
1 Large Tomato, chopped
3 Cup Lettuce, shredded

In a small skillet, heat about 1/2 inch of vegetable oil. Test the oil for proper temperature by putting in a small piece of tortilla. When the oil reaches the temperature where it immediately begins to bubble frantically over the tortilla as soon as it is put in the oil and the tortilla piece
becomes crisp quite quickly, you are ready to cook the chalupa shells. This is important because there is nothing worse than a soggy chalupa shell which results from the oil not being hot enough.
Fry tortillas completely flat on both sides until very crisp. Drain and keep warm on a newspaper covered cookie sheet in a warm oven.

Spread about 1/4 inch thick layer of refried beans on each fried tortilla. Top with a generous amount of grated sharp Cheddar cheese and about 1 T chopped onion. Place assembled chalupas on a cookie sheet and brown under broiler until cheese melts. Watch them carefully under the broiler, they can burn quite quickly. Top with shredded lettuce and tomato and serve.