# Chicken Posole | Made In - Made In

Try out Chef Chris Shepherd’s take on posole, a traditional Mexican dish of a rich, brothy soup or stew filled with tender chicken and delicious hominy.

Posole (or pozole) is a traditional Mexican dish of rich, brothy soup or stew made with hominy and meat (typically pork or chicken). Hominy is dried field corn, or maize, that’s been nixtamalized—the process of soaking kernels in lye or lime to remove the hulls and make the inner “meat” tender. Traditionally, this was to keep corn from sprouting in storage, which was essential to make the corn harvest last through the winter.

While that’s no longer quite as necessary, hominy is a staple in many dishes due to its unique flavor that’s more reminiscent of tortillas than the dried corn you may be familiar with. It is available canned and can be purchased at most grocery stores.

This dish comes to us from James Beard Award winner Chef Chris Shepherd’s cookbook “[Cook Like a Local](https://www.amazon.com/Cook-Like-Local-Flavors-Cookbook/dp/1524761265)” and pairs perfectly with our [Dutch Oven](https://madeincookware.com/blogs/what-is-a-dutch-oven). The complex flavors of the hominy, chiles de árbol, and guajillo chiles are given time to develop and meld into a beautifully rich, fragrant broth thanks to the cast iron core and Cloud Cover Lid.



_Reprinted with permission from Cook Like a Local: Flavors That Can Change How You Cook and See the World by Chris Shepherd and Kaitlyn Goalen, copyright© 2019. Photographs copyright © 2019 by Julie Soefer.  Published by Penguin Random House._

  
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