Puerco Asado - Cuban Pork Roast
Recipe: #31857
April 25, 2019
Categories: Pork Roast, Onions, Cuban, Oven Roast, Slow Cooker, Gluten-Free No Eggs, Non-Dairy, Pork Crock Pot Recipes, 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."
Original is 8 servings
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
Step by Step Method
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
No special items needed.
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