Tamal En Cazuela Cuban Polenta Pork
Recipe: #32746
June 25, 2019
Categories: Pork Roast, Cuban, Gluten-Free, No Eggs Non-Dairy, Fresh Tomatoes, more
"Nathan cocina is great blog"
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (699.3 g)
- Calories 613.4
- Total Fat - 33.1 g
- Saturated Fat - 11.6 g
- Cholesterol - 167.1 mg
- Sodium - 731.4 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 32.1 g
- Dietary Fiber - 4.4 g
- Sugars - 5 g
- Protein - 46.3 g
- Calcium - 85.7 mg
- Iron - 4.4 mg
- Vitamin C - 23.4 mg
- Thiamin - 1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Put oil in stock pot
Step 2
To pork add salt, black pepper to taste, and cumin.
Step 3
Brown on all side well
Step 4
Add water to top of meat
Step 5
Leave uncoverd to braise
Step 6
Bring to a boil on high, stir and leave uncovered
Step 7
Then get a large pot
Step 8
Add cornmeal, cover with water generously
Step 9
(don't measure at this point we are just washing it), (i think you could skip this step they were washing out bugs and dirt)
Step 10
Give it a good stir,
Step 11
And wait 3 minutes or less for the cornmeal to settle at the bottom,
Step 12
Then slowly and carefully pour most of the water out
Step 13
After doing that add about 8 cups water,
Step 14
Add salt,
Step 15
Add sugar
Step 16
Put on the stove over high heat, stirring (whisking)constantly until it comes to a boil (this takes awhile)
Step 17
Then lower heat to low and stir (with flat bottomed spatula)occasionally scraping bottom
Step 18
Meanwhile
Step 19
The pork will have cooked down close to devoid of water, allowing meat to brown all over,
Step 20
Add your onion, garlic, and bell pepper
Step 21
Allow to cook down and stir the pork occasionally for about 8 minutes on medium high heat til onions are translucent and garlic very fragrant
Step 22
Then add tomato
Step 23
Stir
Step 24
Letting cook an additional 2 minutes. Meanwhile
Step 25
Stir your cornmeal to make sure it doesn't stick to bottom of pot while you were doing all that.
Step 26
Add creamed corn to polenta ,cornmeal should be thick
Step 27
Now add your pork, onion, garlic, bell pepper, tomato and spice mixture you had all frying up together in the seperate pan to the cornmeal,
Step 28
Raise heat to medium and stir constantly for about 5 minutes, add salt to taste ,if needed.
Tips
No special items needed.