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This pernil style roast pork recipe is one of our all-time favorite pork recipes. Serve with beans, rice, and a simple salad to complete the meal!
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Assertively seasoned with garlic, oregano, pepper, and enough salt to form a crust, pernil—a Puerto Rican mainstay—lingers in the slow cooker for 18 hours until browned and fork-tender. It's served with vinegar-based pique criollo, a hot sauce made with peppers, garlic, pineapple and herbs.
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Lechon liempo takes the tastiest portion of the swine—the belly—and gives it the slow-roasted treatment that results in succulent meat and crackling skin. It's enough to just roll up a piece of belly and put it on the spit, but I took the extra step of seasoning the inside with garlic paste.
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Perfect Grilled Pork Chops
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Even though the cooking method went against a lot of my education on how to best cook a pork shoulder, this pernil produced a tender and garlicky meat that rightfully stands as one of the great ways to prepare the ever magical swine.
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Arroz con Gandules (Puerto Rican Rice With Pigeon Peas)
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Patacones Con Hogao (Colombian-Style Fried Plantains with Tomato-Onion Sauce)
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Fried Plantains With Black Beans, Roasted Poblanos, Avocado, and Pickled Red Onion
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Crisp fried green plantains with a tender core, served with guacamole.
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