Pozole Protein Bowls (Lighter Batch Prep)

🥗 Meal Prep Friendly — one cook, ~8 servings

A big pot of red pozole becomes five hearty, protein-forward bowls. Broth-based and filling — it reheats like it was made for meal prep.

Instructions:

1. Load the pot. Meat in first, Pozole Bomb on top, then all 6 cups of water — pozole is a brothy one, so this is the full-liquid cook.
2. Pressure cook. Lid locked, valve to Sealing, HIGH pressure for 1 hour 20 minutes.
3. Natural release for at least 15 minutes before venting — the meat shreds juicier and the broth stays clear.
4. Shred in the broth. The meat should fall apart at a touch; shred it right in the pot with two forks.
5. Warm the hominy through. Stir in the drained hominy and let it sit in the hot broth about 5 minutes (hit Sauté briefly if it's cooled) — it just needs heating, not cooking.
6. Cool and portion broth + meat + hominy into 5 deep containers, 15–20 minutes after the cook (fridge within 2 hours).
7. Pack cabbage, radish, and lime separately — the crunch goes on when you eat, so bowl five is as good as bowl one.

Meal-prep portioning:

One cook = ~8 servings. The carb lever is the hominy: full can for training days, half a can (or none) to go lighter.

Slow-cooker path: same meat + bomb + 6 cups water, 6–8 hours; stir the hominy in for the last half hour.

Meal-prep storage (general USDA guidance): refrigerate cooked portions up to 3–4 days; freeze anything beyond that.

Reheating: microwave a container 2–3 minutes, stirring halfway, with a splash of water to loosen the sauce — or rewarm in a skillet over medium heat until steaming hot throughout.

High-protein, lower-carb by design — the bomb is the flavor; your macros come from the lean protein and sides you choose. (Qualitative only — per-serving nutrition varies with your meat and portions.)

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