How to Use pozole in a Sentence

pozole

noun
  • Cruz pointed to the line of diners waiting for bowls of pozole.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2023
  • So like pozole and enchiladas and sopapillas and stuff like that.
    — AFAR Media, 11 May 2026
  • Onions, garlic, oregano, and bay leaves round out the pozole and are probably already in your kitchen.
    — Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Ladle the pozole into bowls and serve, passing the garnishes on the side.
    — Angelica Stabile, Fox News, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Food and drinks will be for sale, including pozole, sweet tamales, hot chocolate and champurrado.
    — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Nov. 2022
  • Beside it, Restaurante Don Luis serves tacos, pozole, tamales and more.
    — Serena Puang, The Indianapolis Star, 8 July 2021
  • The restaurant is best known for its menudo and pozole soup, tamales and most of all the friendly and welcoming customer service.
    — Endia Fontanez, The Arizona Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Corn is the key ingredient in many traditional dishes like pozole soup or warm atole drinks.
    — Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Apr. 2024
  • This tangy, tomatillo-forward pozole fits the bill, with an easy (mostly) stovetop preparation.
    — cleveland, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Women crowded into a makeshift kitchen inside a horse trailer, preparing pozole, a pork-and-hominy stew.
    — Sue Halpern, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Or the chicken pozole shio, which has chicken pozole, hominy with shio noodles, cabbage and tomatillo salsa.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Feb. 2026
  • This classic pozole rojo is a labor of love, but the results burst with rib-sticking satisfaction.
    — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The pozole negro, in particular, is a formidable sight — rich and restorative in the way the world’s great soups are.
    — Melissa Clark, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Terrazas says home cooks can achieve an ideal pozole by starting with quality ingredients.
    — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Castro’s pozole — a hearty soup with cabbage, spices, fresh garlic, hominy, chicken and guajillo chilies — is their go-to recipe when the weather gets cold.
    — Melanie Marshall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Tables are filled to the brim with steaming bowls of pozole, and a soft murmur of conversations weaves through the room like an invisible thread.
    — Mayolo López Gutiérrez, NPR, 1 Jan. 2025
  • Serve the pozole in large Mexican soup bowls and place the garnishes in serving dishes for everyone to add to their own bowls.
    — Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2020
  • For the Mexican Americans among you, el guajolote is served as tamales, pozole, mole or even birria.
    — Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2021
  • Place the pozole in bowls and garnish with the cabbage, lime, radishes and a sprinkle of Mexican oregano and chile powder as desired and serve.
    — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The kitchen sends out tuna poke with watermelon radish like delicate sashimi art, some variation on a lobster pozole.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Walter puts a very local Lubbock twist on his fine dining menu, featuring dishes like elk tartare, yucca topped with caviar, and a green chili pozole.
    — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 14 July 2023
  • Ash from the wood ovens will be used to nixtamalize corn, the process of soaking and alkalizing kernels for pozole or for milling into dough for tortillas and tamales.
    — Ferron Salniker, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 May 2021
  • Two containers of pozole containing chicken and corn were improperly cooling in the walk-in cooler.
    — Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado may 29, Sacbee.com, 29 May 2026
  • Its origins are uncertain, with one tale suggesting that a cook at Manzanillo’s mercado left a pot of pozole over fire and forgot it.
    — Food Editor, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2026
  • Her daughter, Liza Pauley, recalled Rosalba as a skilled cook whose birria and pozole were the envy of her childhood friends.
    — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Other than that, fortified with centuries of technique and a balance of nourishing grains and vegetables, this pozole is pretty much perfect.
    — Washington Post, 20 May 2021
  • One of the few suggestions there might be margaritas and pozole in your future is a bit of see-through tile near the entrance and cactuses throughout the interior.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2024
  • This week, in celebration of Mexican Independence Day, pozole will be top of mind for many.
    — Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2020
  • The lineup will include tri-tip and a ham carving station, as well as Mexican entrees, menudo and pozole, a taco bar, bottomless mimosas and a dessert station.
    — Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Dishes like tamales, pozole and mole have an almost infinite number of variations, with the personality and sazón (style and flair) of the cook taking center stage.
    — Rick A. Martínez, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2022

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