Cooking in progress....

• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Latin American >> Mexican >> Mexican

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Season chicken breasts with salt and black pepper, garlic and onion powders, and chili powder. | 2. Chop onion and mince garlic cloves. | 3. Place chicken, onions, and garlic in a large stock pot. Cover all with water. | 4. Bring to a boil, and then reduce heat to a simmer. | 5. Meanwhile, remove the stems from the dried peppers, and slit each down one side. Remove ALL seeds and the membranes they are attached by from each pepper. | 6. Immerse the dried peppers into the cooking chicken stock. | 7. After 20 minutes, remove the peppers to cool. | 8. Continue cooking chicken for another 20 minutes or so, until chicken is completely done. | 9. Place peppers, one at a time, on a cutting board, and using a knife, “scrape” the softened inner pulp from the "papery" outer skins. | 10. Place all of the pepper pulp into a bowl and sprinkle with a bit of salt, the cumin, and add 1/2 of the lemon juice to pulp. | 11. Mash pulp well. | 12. When chicken is done, remove to cool. Add more water to broth, if needed. | 13. Skim any fat off top of broth. | 14. Add pulp mixture into broth. | 15. Add all 3 cans of "1/2 drained" hominy, and continue to slow-simmer. | 16. Debone the chicken meat into "shreds" and add back into the broth. | 17. Taste broth at this point and adjust seasonings to your tastes. (The pepper may taste a bit hotter than the final product will turn out to be). | 18. Simmer 10-15 more minutes. | 19. Meanwhile, finely shred the lettuce. | 20. Turn off heat and add the remaining 1/2 of the lemon juice to the soup. | 21. To serve, using a slotted serving spoon, put the desired amount of chicken/hominy mixture into a soup bowl, and then put 2 ladlefuls of broth over the top. | 22. Top with a large handful of the shredded lettuce, and then top that with "crunched" up tortilla chips, to taste. | 23. Enjoy! | 24. -You can also top with any other of your favorite Taco toppings. For example, one of my sons adds diced fresh tomatoes to his bowl and the other son likes to add a spoonful of sour cream, and some graded cheddar cheese. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
chicken breast	4			-	-	-	-
onion	2			120.0	28.02	3.3	0.3
garlic clove	8			-	-	-	-
yellow hominy	2	cans		345.4273	68.4138	7.1004	4.2219
white hominy	1	can		178.1109	35.2759	3.6612	2.1769
red chile pod	9			-	-	-	-
lemon	1			-	-	-	-
garlic powder	1	tablespoon		32.107	7.0548	1.6054	0.0708
onion powder	1	tablespoon		23.529	5.4593	0.7183	0.0718
chili powder	1	tablespoon		22.56	3.9760000000000004	1.0768	1.1424
cumin	1	teaspoon	ground	7.875	0.929	0.374	0.4677
salt				-	-	-	-
black pepper				-	-	-	-
head iceberg lettuce	1			-	-	-	-
tortilla chip	1			-	-	-	-

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.