Pork Shoulder

Pork Shoulder
You can never have too many main course recipes, so give Pork Shoulder Head to the store and pick up olive oil, cilantro, garlic cloves, and a few other things to make it today. To use up the ground cumin you could follow this main course with the Moroccan Chocolate Mousse as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 3 hours and 55 minutes.

Instructions

1
Place the pork, fat side up, in a roasting pan fitted with a rack insert, and using a sharp knife, score the surface of the meat with small slits. Prepare the adobo: In a food processor, add the garlic, oregano, cilantro, cumin, salt, and pepper.
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2
Add lime juice and orange juice.
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3
Drizzle in olive oil and pulse until you have a nice puree. Rub the marinade all over the pork, being sure to get into the incisions so the salt can penetrate the meat and pull out the moisture - this will help form a crust on the outside when cooked.
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4
Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F.
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5
Roast the pork for 3 hours, uncovered, until the skin is crispy-brown.
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6
Let the meat rest on a cutting board for 10 minutes before slicing, covered lightly with aluminum foil.
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7
Drizzle with lime juice and garnish with cilantro.
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DifficultyExpert
Ready In3 hrs, 55 m.
Servings12
Health Score22
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