Market Stall · Hominy & Pork Rind Soup
Mote Pata
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The soup gets its body from ground squash seeds (pepa de zambo) stirred into the broth, not from flour or cream.
Hominy corn simmers for hours with pork (ribs, skin and trotters), chorizo, achiote and ground squash seeds into a thick, savory soup. Cuenca's market vendors serve it steaming hot, above all at Carnival.
Why it's made this way: Mote (hominy) is Cuenca's everyday staple, served with almost every meal, and mote pata is the city's classic Carnival dish.
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