What makes up the Mexican dish called "Menudo"?Is it good?

Answer 1

have not tasted mexican menudo but in the philippines it is potatoes, carrots, achuette, liver chopped into small cubes mixed with bread crumbs.

Answer 2

Menudo was believed to originate in Sonora, Mexico. During the mexican Civil war the people of Sonora killed all of their cattle and dried the beef for jerky. The jerky was sent to the soldiers while the rest was left for the people of Sonora. Not wanting to waste it the old women began simmering the tripe (stomach) and that is how menudo was created.

As for the Filipino version, if you check your history books, you will find that the Philipines were under the rule of the Spaniards for over 400 years. No culture stays untainted for that long. Their foods blended, as a matter of fact, the Filipinos are one of the few Asian countries not to eat Chili-spiced foods. They are much more like Mexico in their flavor profile.

To decide if Menudo is good, you will need to taste it for yourself. Most believe that it is an acquired taste. If you enjoy Vietmamese pho (soup) then you will probably like menudo (if it is prepared well. Find a very good authentic Mexican restaurant in your area, ask when they serve menudo and go try it. It usually is not that expensive and you will learn a little about you palate. Enjoy!

Below is a recipe for Menudo.
MENUDO
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6 pounds tripe
5 pounds hominy
4 pigs feet, cut and quartered
1 large onion
1 bunch green onion
1 bunch cilantro
2 tablespoons oregano
1 tablespoon black pepper
1 tablespoon red pepper flakes
1 whole garlic
2 tablespoons salt
6 dry California red chili pods
1 can tomato paste

Put tripe, pigs feet and hominy into a huge pot and cook for about 1 hour with 1 cut up quartered onion and green onions.
While that is boiling:

In a blender, combine oregano, cilantro, garlic, salt, pepper and chili pods; blend with water and tomato paste, filling blender. Blend about two minutes, or until you have a nice red sauce.

Add this sauce to a large pot, continuing to simmer (do not boil) for 4 hours or until tripe is tender (not rubbery).

Serve with French bread, sourdough bread, or corn or flour tortillas. Top menudo with chopped yellow onions, lemon, lime and cilantro.

Answer 3

Menudo in Senora is made with tripe and hominy. I think if you go further south in Mexico they put different meat parts in it.

When I had it was very smelly, but I was very hungry. So I ate the hominy, left the tripe and used lots, and lots of cilantro and lemon to mask the smell. I guess it is an acquired taste or smell.

Answer 4

Menudo is made out of tripe, and I have never been able to get past the smell!

Answer 5

i think menudo is not a Mexican dish, i get confuse!!! why? coz I'm a Filipino and menudo is one of the most popular dish here in the Philippines.
yeah!!! it is good!!! with a blend of tomato... as if you ate a red sauce pasta

Answer 6

Menudo is made from "tripe" which is the stomach of a cow. Some people like it.

Answer 7

Go to your local supermarket and ask for tripe.
It's cow intestines that have been cleaned and cut up. You'll need a big can of white hominy (corn).
Chile powder,water and a big pot.
I don't have the actual recipe,but once it's made,yom yum!
I don't care for it much since I got food poisoning from it in a restaurant. It's the best cure for a hangover too. One big bowl will do the trick.

Answer 8

The soup menudo is a traditional Mexican dish; a spicy soup made with tripe. It is often thought of a cure for a hangover, and is traditionally served on special occasions or with family.

Menudo is an ethnic dish that has its roots firmly planted in peasant food heritage and poverty. In pre-revolution Mexico, poverty amongst the campesinos was chronic and little if anything that might be prepared as food was left to waste. Usually, the best cuts of meat would go to the hacienda owners while the offal went to the peons. These leftovers consisted of organ meats, brains, head, tails, hooves, etc. Inventive peasant cooks created a soup that made good use of one of the major leftovers: -- the stomach. As cattle and sheep are ruminants that require lengthy intestinal tracts to digest their diet of grasses and raw seeds, the stomach is one of the largest pieces of offal available from these animals.

Classic menudo is basically a slowly cooked stew of tripe infused with several varieties of chile peppers and spices. It is presented as a soup and typically is served with corn tortillas or white bread rolls (bolillos). Typical condiments added to menudo are dried oregano, ground chile flakes, lime juice, and chopped onion . Due to the length of time needed to cook tripe to be tender enough to be edible, menudo is generally cooked in large batches and sold as a special menu item in Mexican restaurants, rather than prepared at home. In some areas menudo is sold as a weekend-only specialty in regular restaurants (typically announced by signs reading Menudo fin de semana), in other areas, menudo is made daily, but mostly sold in restaurants and market stalls (fondas) that specialize in the dish.

There are a number of regional variations on menudo. In northern Mexico, typically hominy (creation of hominy is one step in the production of tortilla dough) is added. Adding patas (beef or pigs feet) to the stew is popular but not universal. In some areas of central Mexico, "menudo" refers to stew of sheep stomach, "pancitas" stew of beef stomach. Other variations have clear or green broth rather than the reddish colored type usually seen. A similar stew made with more easily cooked meat is pozole.

The popularity of menudo in Mexico is such that Mexico is a major export market for stomach tripe from US and Canadian beef producers. Large frozen blocks of imported menudo meat can frequently be seen in Mexican meat markets.

The word "menudo" in Mexico can mean the raw stomach meat as well as the stew. The word tripas normally refers to the small intestines rather than the stomach. Tripas are also eaten, but normally in tacos rather than stews.

In the last season of the 1970s television series Sanford and Son, Fred Sanford made a reference to menudo in almost every episode. It was thought to be his favorite dish.

Answer 9

menudo is tripe[cow stomach] stewed in a sauce. if you like that sort of thing, it may be good to you.

Answer 10

it's made of tripe with hominy in a spicy soup. sounds gross, but with some lemon and fresh onion it's gooood!