Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, sopes de puerco (pork sopes). One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Great recipe for Sopes de Puerco (pork sopes). All my childhood i grew up eating sopes made with pork and red chile. My grandmother's recipe from Guadalajara, with a few twists of mine.
Sopes de Puerco (pork sopes) is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Sopes de Puerco (pork sopes) is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook sopes de puerco (pork sopes) using 22 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Sopes de Puerco (pork sopes):
- Get for sopes
- Get pork
- Get queso fresco ( mexican fresh cheese)
- Get lettuce head chopped
- Get package sope baskets
- Prepare avocado, sliced into strips
- Make ready vegetable oil
- Make ready garlic salt
- Prepare salt and pepper
- Take powdered chicken bullion
- Get kikoman soy sauce
- Take refried beans
- Get sour cream (optional)
- Take for salsa
- Take fresh tomatoes
- Get chile wero (yellow)
- Take jalapeno chile
- Get cilantro minced
- Get water from boiled veggies
- Prepare salt and pepper
- Get garlic cloves
- Prepare chiles de arbol
Sopes can also be topped with shredded lettuce, crumbled queso fresco, Mexican crema, and a variety of. Sopes are very traditional in mexican households. The toppings range from just beans and cheese, to eggs, shredded chicken or beef, picadillo, or even just guacamole. To form the sopes you will need either a tortilla press orflat plate or the bottom of a skillet.
Steps to make Sopes de Puerco (pork sopes):
- Chop your pork into small cubes. Toss in a bowl, add dash of: soy sauce, garlic salt, pepper, salt, chicken bullion, and mix well with hands. Set aside.
- Make your salsa. Add tomatoes and chiles in a pot and bring to boil .cook for 15-20min. Then cook the chiles de arbol over open flame, just burn the tips and blow out the flame.in a blender add the soft tomatoes, cut the stems off the chiles, add to blender. Add garlic cloves, and chile de arbol. Add 2 cups of water you boiled veggies in. Add cilantro.Add salt and pepper to taste. Blend for 2 min. Add more salt if needed. Until you like it. Done. Set aside.
- Refried beans can be bought whole in its juices and then poured over high heat oil and mashed. Tada. Or u can buy canned if its easier.
- In a deep skillet. Add veg oil. Med high heat. Add meat. Brown the meat. Stir meat. Cook for a good 10-15 min with lid. Just stiring on med high heat occasionally . Youll see its juices begining to rise. Now bring down to medium heat. And uncover the lid. Let it simmer in its juices for another 10 min. Youll see juices begin to evaporate and itll begin to sizzle and grill and turn brown. Once it browns nicelt all over, drop the heat to low. Cover.
- Add salsa to the meat.stir it in well. Leave on low. Cover to let flavors marinate together. Stir occasionally.
- In another skilet add oil to fill about half way up. High heat. Let heat up for 1 min. Add sope baskets to fry. About 2 min each side, tske out and place in a strainer basket with a kitchen sheet of paper to absorb some oil.
- Place empty baskets on a plate, spoon some refried beans inside, one large spoon of the pork and its chile over that into the basket. Top with lettuce, avocado, crumbled queso fresco, add a dallop of sour cream (optional) and spoon a little extra salsa from the meat on top. Enjoy.
Remove sopes with tongs and place on a paper towel-lined plate; cool just until sopes can be handled. Pinch the edges of each sope together forming little 'boats'. The most popular toppings are shredded beef, pork, or chicken. This includes the traditional smear of refried beans that's usually spread on the sopes before putting the toppings on. After the beans and meat, the sopes are garnished with lettuce (or cabbage), tomato, crumbled cheese, and the salsa of your choice.
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