Puerco Asado - Cuban Pork Roast
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Recipe: #31857
April 25, 2019
Categories: Main Dish, Pork, Pork Roast, Vegetables, Onions, Cuban, Oven Roast, Slow Cooker, Gluten-Free, No Eggs, Non-Dairy more
"A tasty pork roast marinated in citrus juices and slow cooked to make it tender. This can be made in the oven on low heat or in a crock pot."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (346 g)
- Calories 715.4
- Total Fat - 51.2 g
- Saturated Fat - 17.7 g
- Cholesterol - 201.3 mg
- Sodium - 188.8 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 10.6 g
- Dietary Fiber - 1.4 g
- Sugars - 2.9 g
- Protein - 50.3 g
- Calcium - 92.8 mg
- Iron - 3.6 mg
- Vitamin C - 17.2 mg
- Thiamin - 2.2 mg
NOTES: Any fresh pork roast including Picnic can be used. It's best if the orange juice is a little bit bitter. You can combine orange juice and lime juice to make the 3/4 cup.
Step 1
Trim fat from roast and, with a knife pierce some holes on top of the roast.
Step 2
Mash garlic with salt and add other ingredients except onions.
Step 3
Rub this on roast and insert some in the holes.
Step 4
Place the roast in a plastic bag or glass dish. Cover with onions and refrigerate, at least overnight.
Step 5
Bake in a covered baking pan at 275 degrees F. for 5-6 hours. Low temps work best.
Step 6
Turn once halfway through cooking.
Step 7
Take roast out of the oven and let stand 20 minutes before carving.
Step 8
Crockpot:
Step 9
This can be made in a crockpot on low for 8 hours. It shreds easily to make great sandwiches.
Tips & Variations
No special items needed.
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