South of the Border Pulled Pork
From crabhappychick 15 years ago
- 240 minutes to make
- Serves 6
Deep, rich flavor to this unusual pulled pork - citrus, garlic, hot peppers, herbs - the pork cooks down into this beautiful sauce. Good over rice or tucked into tortillas - or arepas! Adapted from a recipe in the Baltimore Sun.
Ingredients
- 4 pound boneless pork butt shopping list
- 6 garlic cloves, slivered, plus 2 minced garlic cloves shopping list
- 1 t. salt shopping list
- freshly ground black pepper to taste shopping list
- 1/4 c. olive oil shopping list
- 2 large red onions, chopped shopping list
- 2 jalapeno peppers, seeded, minced - unless you like it hotter shopping list
- 1 pound fresh tomatillos, prepared and chopped shopping list
- 3 c. chicken broth shopping list
- 2 T. orange zest shopping list
- 2 t. oregano, divided shopping list
- 3 T. fresh basil, minced shopping list
- 1 T. fresh lime juice shopping list
How to make it
- Preheat oven to 350. Push slivers of garlic into 1" deep cuts in pork. Season meat with salt and pepper.
- Heat oil in large Dutch oven and brown pork on all sides well. Remove meat and set aside.
- Add onion to the Dutch oven, reduce heat to medium. Saute onion until tender, stir in the minced garlic, the jalapeno and the tomatillos; cook until tomatillos are soft. Add chicken broth, orange zest and 1 t. oregano. Place the roast onto the vegetables and bathe it with the juices from the pan. Cover and cook for 4 hours until it begins to fall apart.
- Remove meat from pot, add the basil, remaining oregano, lime juice and more freshly ground black pepper back into the pot. Pull pork apart and serve with sauce.
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This sounds wonderful! YUM
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Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful!! :)
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Sounds so very delicious!
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