Daddy Eddie's Roast Pork (Pernil), Puerto Rican-Style

Daddy Eddie's Roast Pork (Pernil), Puerto Rican-Style
  • 1/4 cup olive oil
  • 3 tablespoons white vinegar
  • 10 cloves garlic, or more to taste
  • 2 tablespoons dried oregano
  • 1 tablespoon salt
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons ground black pepper
  • 5 pounds pork shoulder, trimmed of excess fat


  1. Combine olive oil, vinegar, garlic, oregano, salt, and black pepper in a mortar and pestle; mash into a paste.
  2. Make deep slits into the pork with a small knife. Stuff slits with the paste; rub any remaining paste over the pork.
  3. Place pork in a plastic roasting bag and put in a roasting pan with a rack. Let marinate in the refrigerator, 8 to 48 hours.
  4. Take pork out of the refrigerator, uncover, and bring to room temperature, 1 to 2 hours.
  5. Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C).
  6. Roast pork skin-side down in the preheated oven until golden brown, about 2 hours. Flip pork and continue roasting, skin-side up, until juices run clear and an instant-read thermometer inserted into the center reads at least 145 degrees F (63 degrees C), 2 to 4 hours more.

05/03/2018
Daddy Eddie's Roast Pork (Pernil), Puerto Rican-Style, recipe PT15M PT1H 5 455 calories

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