Recipe of Cochinita pibil

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Poke holes all over the pork with a fork. Rub achiote paste all over the pork, and set aside. In a large bowl, mix together the orange juice, lemon juice, and habanero peppers.

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Recipe of Cochinita pibil

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have cochinita pibil using 13 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

Ingredients

The ingredients needed to make Cochinita pibil:

1. Get 1.5 kg pork (shoulder)
2. Get 500 g achiote
3. Take 100 ml sour orange juice
4. Get 1/4 cup salt
5. Make ready 2 tbsp allspice (grounded)
6. Make ready 4 bay leaves
7. Take leaf Banana
8. Prepare Las Salsas
9. Prepare 1 red onion
10. Prepare 4 habaneros
11. Take Garlic powder
12. Take Lime
13. Prepare Olive oil

Similar to pork carnitas, there are about a million ways to serve up cochinita pibil — loaded up into street tacos, tucked into burritos, sprinkled on nachos, or whatever else may sound good. Real cochinita pibil is not spicy, but it has a uniquely sweet, earthy aroma imparted by Seville oranges, achiote, charred garlic, and spices. That earthiness is backed with the aroma of the banana leaves it's cooked in, along with smokiness from hours of cooking. Maybe you can't make cochinita pibil without an actual pib, but you can fake it pretty darn well, and that's what we're going to do.

Instructions

Steps to make Cochinita pibil:

1. Mix the achiote with the sour orange juice until achiote is diluted into a soft paste
2. Add the allspice and salt to the achiote paste
3. Cut the pork in small-ish cubes and mix them.with the achiote. Don't forget to add the shoulder bones
4. If possible let it sit for a whole day.
5. Make a cover with banana leaf on your pressure cooker
6. Add the pork with achiote into the cooker and add some bay leaves inside
7. Cover the recipient with another banana leaf
8. Cover with water until it reaches the banana leaf cover
9. Cool for 60 minutes
10. Chop the red onion and mix with sour orange, a tbsp of olive oil, salt and garlic powder to taste.
11. Make some "habaneros toreados" by passing them through the fire.
12. Cut them and mix with lime, salt and tbsp of olive oil.
13. Take the meat out of the cooker, and shred it.
14. Heat some tortillas, add cochinita, red onion and some habanero, and enjoy.

Traditional Yucatan food as we know it today arises from the fusion of early European influences with native Mayan food and preparation techniques. The Right Dish for the Job. The secret to making fall-apart tender Cochinita Pibil (pronounced ko-chin-ee-ta pee-beel) at home, is to roast it low and slow in the oven. The only thing you need is a deep roasting pan. Trim the excess fat from the pork.

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