pozole

noun

po·​zo·​le

variant spelling of posole

: a thick soup chiefly of Mexico and the U.S. Southwest made with pork, hominy, garlic, and chili

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And Team Mexico brought along some spice, namely the ingredients for pozole, chile peppers, chipotle chiles and nopales. Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 4 July 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 Villalobos realized something was wrong when her 31-year-old son, Giovanni Luna Villalobos, didn’t show up to eat pozole corn soup at her birthday party. Bloomberg, Mercury News, 4 June 2026 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 See All Example Sentences for pozole

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“Pozole.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pozole. Accessed 19 Jul. 2026.

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