Roast Pork “Puerto Rican Pernil”

Roast Pork “Pernil” is the driving force behind a solid, Puerto Rican Christmas feast. Pernil is a slow cooked pork roast, usually a shoulder, butt or leg, that is very typically enjoyed during the holidays. It is a classic Puerto Rican dish, and also a classic dish in the Dominican Republic, though unsurprisingly there are small differences that mean a lot. There are Cuban versions, too.

Typical seasonings include salt pepper, sofrito, Adobo, oregano, and Sazon. All the right ingredients that simply put, makes this dish phenomenally savory and flavorful! Outside from tender meat, the crispy, crunchy skin we call “Cuerito” is truly the most coveted part of the roast any way you slice it! This dish is sure to fill your house with a delicious aroma, and your belly with a whole lot of “piggy goodness.” So Enjoy my friends!

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Hi guys and welcome back today i am going to be preparing this beautiful pork shoulder it’s an eight pounder and i’m gonna be honest this is not going to be uh probably good for those of uh the final part let me say that um this is very traditional for us islanders

Um holidays thanksgiving christmas so since we’re getting close to the holidays i said you know what let me do a short video on how we prepare this what we call pero meal which is a pork shoulder again this is an eight pounder what i did was it’s clean already i did some um

Apple cider vinegar and some lime and here’s the trick two simple ingredients there’s nothing major here the idea with this is to make sure we marinate this for at least a day overnight okay you have various choices i like to do this okay i like to

Peel the skin back and it has some incisions that i did with the knife you don’t have to do this this way you can actually do it okay with the skin but i’m funny like that i’m pretty picky so i did the incision i peeled the skin and did the incisions okay so

I’m gonna put this baby here on the side and i’m going to show you guys all that is needed to do this delicious work okay so i have my pillow here if you don’t have a pillow you can actually use a grater where you can actually grate your uh garlic

So i have garlic i have black pepper lots of salt we’re gonna need lots of salt i have some and i have some rosemary and some oil of your choice so i’m gonna go ahead and put all my garlic in here what i did with the garlics i have

Probably about five cloves of garlic in here so i’m gonna go ahead and put it in here good and i am going to do all this pepper black pepper that is and yes all this salt this is a big piece of pork and we really want this to marinate nicely

Okay so don’t panic it’s a lot of salt but it’s going to be just perfect so i’m going to go ahead and put all the salt in here and um i’m gonna wait for these two i’m gonna start founding this and here’s the uh the best part and what we want to create

Is like a paste and i’m gonna show you guys i will show you guys sure and because i am doing this myself i’m gonna have to be doing little things like this so you guys have an idea so we’re gonna pound this like we’ll save the islands i’m gonna pound this real hard

Okay and what we’re gonna create is a nice space i’m gonna go ahead and start adding the rosemary we’re going to give this some actually i’ll show you guys now i like this one because not only it gives it a pretty color but it also gives it a nice taste

And listen you can season and overnight and i have last minute uh prepared a pork shoulder and not marinade the key is and i’ll show you guys at the end um go ahead season it heavy on salt put it in the oven um and then you can actually finish uh

The seasoning at the end and i’ll show you guys how you can do that you can add you know onions a little bit of salt if you if it fits needed at the end and i’ll show you so it’s really not bad i like to make sure that

I marinate it for at least at least five hours or i hope because you want all the garlic and all these ingredients to infuse this beautiful pork shoulder okay i’m just gonna put a little bit of oil just to give it that nice little paste that i want and then my childhood actually

Back in the days this is how my mama did it and we can still do it like let me go get a spoon i’m gonna show you guys let me clear this up heavy okay i think it’s perfect i’m going to put it here so you guys can actually see the texture

This is what we want see how nice that nice little paste put a little bit of oil but now i think it’s perfect i think this will work for you so we’re going to get a pretty hands dirty here i’m going to peel this back and this is what we want to do

See these little dishes we want to go ahead put this nice seasoning inside okay this is what we’re gonna do and don’t be afraid again with the salt you can fix this baby at the end and i actually have a trick so i’ll show you guys at the end

Try not to be messy here again this is very traditional especially for the holidays you know we do of course our thanksgiving we have the turkey but we also have our fork nicely try not to do much mess here see how pretty actually i did some incision

On the bottom here as well so we’re going to do the same and um we are going to put this baby in the oven at 350 degrees for a good four hours what i’m going to do is i’m going to cover the pork i’m going to do this

I’m going to really put it all over now i just want to go like this no i won’t and we’re going to put some more here see how pretty this looks It smells so good already So so good and this is what you guys want i’m going to open here so you guys can see see how nice [Applause] Garlic and the salt and pepper this is why it’s really good to marinate for a few hours before cooking i’m gonna wash my hands and i’m going to put this baby in the refrigerator okay here we go clean up a little it’s kind of messy today but it’s a messy job but

Worthwhile at the end it’s going to be delicious This because we don’t wanna eat early today and it’s called nine o’clock in the morning i’m gonna put this baby in the fridge for just two hours then the longer you marinate your pork the nicer it will come off let’s get this baby i’m gonna go ahead get my pork out of

The refrigerator it’s been marinated for two hours i have my oven it’s already preheated at 350 degrees we’re going to go ahead and put this baby in here for four hours now here’s the trick okay the first three hours we’re gonna cover the pork and then the last hour we’re going to

Uncover the pork because we want the skin to get nice and crunchy show you guys Let me show you a trick as well when you do the foil paper do not go like this because i have the actual skin up we don’t want the foil paper to stick to the skin okay so we want to make sure that it’s not

We don’t pat it down put this in here Remember first three hours it’s covered and the last hour will uncover and i’ll see you guys back in four hours hi guys four hours are up we’re gonna get this beautiful pork out of the oven again i did four hours for three hours covered last hour uncovered and i’m gonna show you

How pretty this pork looks especially the skin oh it’s hot Look how pretty guys so here’s ski we have to let this fork sit for a good 10-15 minutes it’s really too hot to cut when we come back i’m gonna show you guys how easy it is to fix this pork if it needs any salt or any seasoning okay so come back And now we’re gonna go ahead and cut this beautiful pork into nice chunks of course depending on your guests you’ll do those cuts um as you all know me it’s always good to have a pretty dish make things look prettier delicious check this out guys yummy Yummy Well guys here we have it but let me show you this quick trick because i only marinated my uh pork my eight pound pork for two hours i did went heavy on the sauce it’s okay it’s perfect i don’t think it needs any salt but if

That was the case then you can go ahead and add a little bit of salt now add a little bit of pepper but i’m gonna show you how i’m not doing salt and pepper because it doesn’t need it so i’m going to show you my trick

Okay this is how i always end up my pork so i have some onions i like my red onions as you know i’m going to put this here so okay i’m not going to use all i think i did too much and i’m going to do some of this lime

A lime lemon whatever you have i’m going to actually do a whole one and this gives it such a nice flavor this is the time that you put salt and pepper if you need to it doesn’t need it so i’m not going to do that and this is what i do

I give it a nice little toss take all the flavors of the onions and you probably want to wait a few minutes before you serve so it it has the nice flavors of the onions and the pork okay Now i’m going to put the best part of the pork beautiful skin Usually i like to put it like on a side on the side okay put it however you want i want to look pretty and believe it or not in my family this is the first part that goes let’s show you how pretty this is guys so here we have a beautiful masterpiece

Our perennial is ready beautiful i did some rice with it this is very typical um in our latin homes this is which is rice and pigeon peas delicious guys i’m gonna go ahead and quickly prepare a little plate before we finish this video so i’m gonna put some pieces here

So pretty onions guests don’t like the onions just they can put them aside i like my onions And of course i want some what we call which is the skin yummy yummy yummy yummy i’m gonna actually find a pretty piece for my presentation now isn’t that pretty guys well guys thank you for joining me today i hope you enjoyed this recipe for more recipes go ahead to my youtube

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