What Cocido means
Cocido is a Mexican soup or stew name of Spanish origin meaning "cooked one". It comes from Spanish cocido (cooked, boiled). It is pronounced koh-SEE-doh, and it is most associated with northern Mexico.
The Spanish cocido crossed the Atlantic and became the northern beef and vegetable boil. The name says only that it was boiled.
This is a site about what Mexican words mean, so there is no recipe here. For the name itself: Pozole, menudo, birria, caldo. Mexican soup names are blunt and descriptive: menudo means "the small things", the offal that goes in it, and pozole comes from a Nahuatl word for foam, describing how the hominy blooms open as it cooks.
