Cuban roast suckling pig

4 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
1 10- to 12-pound whole
Suckling pig
3 cups Freshly-squeezed orange
Juice
1 cup Freshly-squeezed lime juice
(from about 8 medium limes)
12 Garlic cloves
1 Onion
1 tablespoon Salt
1 tablespoon Oregano
2 tablespoons Olive oil
4 Bay leaves

Directions

Bring a large pot of water to a rolling boil. Wearing rubber gloves to protect your hands, hold pig by head and submerge as much of body as possible in water for 1 minute. Remove, reverse pig and, holding tail end, submerge head and as much of body as possible, 1 minute. Place in a snug-fitting, non-reactive pan and pour orange and lime juice over and inside pig.

In a food processor combine garlic, onion and salt. Add oregano and olive oil and process to a paste. Smear inside and out of pig with garlic paste and scatter with bay leaves. Tightly cover pig with plastic wrap and marinate, refrigerated, 48 hours, turning occasionally.

Preheat oven to 200 degree. Transfer pig to a large roasting pan.

Pull hind legs forward toward head and prop it up so its back is up and it is sitting on its hind legs. Open mouth a stuff with crumpled aluminum foil. Roast pig 12 to 13 hours, basting with marinade every hour. A meat thermometer inserted in thickest part will register 190 degrees. To brown and crisp skin, turn heat up to 350 degrees for last ½ hour of cooking. Let sit, loosely covered with foil, ½ hour before carving.

Yield: 8 servings

TASTE SHOW #TS4619

Related recipes