🇨🇺 Cuba cuisine · #4

Lechón Asado

Name: Lechón Asado
Total time: 300 min
Yield: 10
Cuisine: Cuba
Ingredients: 3 kg shoulder (pork traditionally, lamb for halal); 1 head garlic; 300 ml sour orange juice (or orange with lime); 1 tbsp cumin; 1 tbsp oregano; 1 onion, sliced; salt and pepper

Time300 min

Serves10

Ingredients7

Meat slow-roasted after marinating in garlicky sour-orange mojo — the Christmas Eve feast. Traditionally pork; use lamb shoulder for halal.

Method

Pound garlic with salt and spices and add the juice.
Pierce the meat and marinate in mojo and onion overnight.
Roast covered at 150°C for 4 hours.
Uncover and crisp at 220°C for 30 minutes; serve with the cooked onions.

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Ingredients

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