Recipe

Puerto Rican Roast Pork Recipe

	Mamalou / All my dishes 3 months, 1 week ago Cannot remember the source of this recipe, but it is delicious! Prep:20m Cook:180m Servings:8	Mamalou
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Ingredients

1 (4 1/2 to 5 lb. bone-in pork shoulder roast

12 medium cloves garlic, peeled and left whole

1 T. dried powdered oregano

1 tsp. salt, or to taste

1/2 tsp. freshly-ground black pepper, or to taste

1/4 C. distilled white vinegar

or freshly-squeezed lime juice

2 T. olive oil

Directions

Rinse pork shoulder under cold running water. Pat it dry with paper towels. Cut shallow slits with a small sharp knife all over the pork shoulder. Make an adobo, a garlic-spice rub. Purée the garlic with the oregano, salt, black pepper and vinegar or lime juice in a food processor or electric blender. Pour in the olive oil and blend well. You can also make the adobo the old-fashioned way by crushing the garlic, oregano and salt and pepper with a mortar and pestle, and then combining the crushed garlic mixture and the vinegar and oil ( yeah, right!).

Place pork in a shallow roasting pan, then pour the adobo over it. Rub the adobo into the pork with your fingers, forcing it into the slits. Cover the pork with plastic wrap and marinate it in the refrigerator overnight.

Roast the pork at 350ºF, basting regularly with pan juices, until tender, about 2 1/2 to 3 hours (Cover roast with foil for the last hour). Remove the pork from the pan to a carving board and let it rest for 10 minutes before slicing. Serve the pork hot or warm, with accompaniments of your choice.

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