It’s a rare recipe that makes you want to copy and paste the ingredients into your shopping list immediately upon seeing its (droolworthy) photo. “Instant Pot,” “chicken,” and “avocado” are all easy reasons to make this ready-in-less-than-45-minutes charmer any night this week.
Not only is it fast, it’s easy to execute this posole, a cross between tortilla soup and a stew. The Mexican classic features hominy, maize that has been dried and soaked, which causes the kernels to swell. Hominy has a complex corn-y taste that resists dilution in a soup. It’s about three times the size of a raw sweet corn kerne. You can find cans of it in the bean aisle at the supermarket.
Locating the hominy (if you’ve never cooked with it before) just might be the trickiest part of this recipe, which combines convenient refrigerator staples such as boneless skinless chicken breasts and limes with inexpensive, super-flavorful new staples such as tomatillos. This recipe takes advantage of the Instant Pot’s simple “Sauté” function, so when you’re done cooking, you have just the one pressure cooker bowl to clean. Talk about weeknight-friendly.
Instant Pot Chicken Posole
Ingredients
- 2 lb. (1 kg) boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
- 2 Tbs. extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 yellow onion, diced
- 4 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
- 1 jalapeño chile, seeded and finely chopped
- 1 tsp. dried oregano
- 1 tsp. ground cumin
- 1 can (25 oz./780 g) hominy, drained and rinsed
- 4 cups (32 fl. oz./1 l) chicken broth
- 6 tomatillos, husks removed, rinsed and coarsely chopped
- Juice of 1 lime
- Fresh cilantro leaves for garnish
- Avocado slices for garnish
- Lime wedges for garnish
Directions
1. Season the chicken breasts generously on both sides with salt and pepper. In an Instant Pot set to “sauté,” warm the olive oil. In batches, sear the chicken, turning once, until golden brown, about 4 minutes per side. Transfer the chicken to a plate.
2. Add the onion to the pot and cook, stirring occasionally, until tender and translucent, about 3 minutes. Add the garlic, chile, oregano, cumin, 1 tsp. salt and 1/2 tsp. pepper and cook, stirring, until fragrant, about 1 minute. Add the hominy, broth and tomatillos to the pot and stir to combine. Return the chicken to the pot.
3. Cover the pot with the lid, lock the lid into place and turn the valve to “sealing.” Set the Instant Pot to cook at high pressure for 20 minutes.
4. When the pressure cooking is complete, turn the valve to “venting” to manually release the steam. When the steam stops, carefully remove the lid and transfer the chicken to a large bowl. Use 2 forks to shred the chicken into bite-size pieces. Return the chicken to the pot, add the lime juice and stir to mix. Season with salt and pepper.
5. To serve, ladle the soup into individual bowls. Garnish with the cilantro, avocado and lime wedges, and serve immediately. Serves 6.
For this and more recipes that are big on flavor but short on prep time, check out The Instant Pot Cookbook, by the cooks of the Williams Sonoma Test Kitchen.
12 comments
i fell in love with pozole rojo
It’s not posole if it doesn’t have green chiles!
How can I adapt recipe to cook on the Breville fast cooker? I don´t have an InstaPot
This pozole is SO good! We have leftovers and I have eaten it three days in a row for lunch.
It’s a rare recipe that makes you want to copy and paste the ingredients into your shopping list immediately upon seeing its (droolworthy) photo.
This pozole is SO good! We have leftovers and I have eaten it three days in a row for lunch. https://8ball-pool.io I can’t quit exclaiming how damned good it is! So happy I found this recipe!
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How can I adapt recipe to cook on the Breville fast cooker? I don´t have an InstaPot
It’s not posole if it doesn’t have green chiles! I’m not talking jalapeños, rather the milder, more flavorful ones you can find in the Mexican food aisle. And to be really authentic, they ought to be freshly roasted Hatch chiles, which ripen in late summer. My ratio is always one small can of diced chiles for each can of hominy. And if you’ve never used hominy before, there is absolutely no flavor difference between yellow and white varieties.
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i fell in love with pozole rojo (red pozole with pork shoulder) about 30 years ago when invited to a coworkers’ party. it was in one of those huge stock pots and the dozen or so people who were at the party nearly finished it (her mom was kind enough to send me home with some, along with the recipe). i used to eat it religiously every weekend (it’s only served on weekends in most mexican restaurants) and have made it more than a few times myself (though it’s a bit labor intensive). i’ve been wanting to try chicken pozole for quite a while, and i think this recipe is the incentive that i needed.