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Gallina Pinta

Eunice Huerta
When winter chill sets in, cozy up with a steaming bowl of Gallina Pinta. The warm, terracotta-colored broth brims with tender beef chunks, oxtails, hominy, and pinto beans, teasing your taste buds with every spoonful
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 2 hours
Total Time 2 hours 10 minutes
Course Soup
Cuisine Mexican
Servings 15

Equipment

  • 1 stockpot

Ingredients
  

  • 4 cans (15.5 oz) pinto beans or homemade pinto beans
  • 2 bay leaves
  • 1 head garlic, paper husk removed, and tip cut
  • 2 pounds chuck roast, cut into 2-inch chunks
  • pounds oxtail
  • 2 (32 oz) containers beef stock
  • 4 cups water
  • 1 medium white onion, peeled
  • 3 medium plum tomatoes, cored
  • 1 medium Anaheim pepper, stemmed and seeded
  • ¼ cup fresh cilantro
  • 3 dried guajillo chile pods stemmed and seeded
  • 2 cans (29 oz) Mexican style hominy, drained and rinsed
  • 1 tbsp Mexican oregano
  • 4 tsps kosher salt

Instructions
 

  • Place chuck roast chunks, oxtail, beef stock, and water in a large stockpot. Cover; bring to a boil. Skim off any foam that rises to the top. Reduce heat to simmer.
  • Stir in bay leaves, garlic head, whole onion, one cored plum tomato, Anaheim pepper, cilantro, and guajillo chilies. Cover. Simmer for 2 hours or until meat is tender.
  • Sauce: Remove onion, garlic, tomato, Anaheim pepper, guajillo chilies, and bay leaves from the pot. Squeeze garlic cloves out from the root end, discarding any remnants of the peel. Place garlic cloves in a blender. Add onion, tomato, Anaheim pepper, guajillos, the remaining 2 tomatoes, and the remaining 1 teaspoon salt to the blender. Cover. Blend on high speed until completely smooth. Set aside.
  • Drain and rinse canned pinto beans.
  • Stir in hominy, beans, oregano, and 1 tablespoon of the salt. Add the blended sauce that was set aside*. Cook 30 minutes longer or until hominy is tender.
  • Salt to taste
  • Place soup in serving bowls, and top with salsa and chiltepins.

Sauce instruction

  • Squeeze garlic cloves out from the root end, discarding any remnants of the peel. Place garlic cloves in a blender. Add onion, tomato, Anaheim pepper, guajillos, the remaining 2 tomatoes, and the remaining 1 teaspoon salt to the blender. Cover. Blend on high speed until completely smooth.

Notes

  • Toppings: slice radishes, chiltepin, diced onions, and chopped cilantro.
  • *Homemade pinto beans - 1 pound of dried pinto beans
Keyword Gallina Pinta, Gallina Pinta soup
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