Mexican
Cochinita Pibil (Yucatan Pulled Pork)
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Cochinita Pibil (Yucatan Pulled Pork) is Mexican home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Dissolve the achiote paste in the juice of the oranges and limes, which stand in for the traditional sour orange, along with the garlic and salt.
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Rub the pork shoulder all over with the achiote marinade and let it sit at least 1 hour, or overnight in the fridge.
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Line a deep baking dish with the banana leaf, add the pork and its marinade, top with sliced onion, and fold the leaf over to seal.
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Cover tightly and cook low and slow, in a 300F oven or a slow cooker, for about 3 hours until the pork shreds with a fork.
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Shred the meat in its own juices and serve with warm tortillas and pickled red onion. A weekend dish, and the strongest single southern marker on this shelf.
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Serve it with
A Mexican dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Cochinita Pibil (Yucatan Pulled Pork), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The protein alongside
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Cochinita Pibil (Yucatan Pulled Pork) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish |
|---|---|
| Peanuts | No |
| Tree nuts | No |
| Dairy | No |
| Gluten | No |
| Shellfish | No |
| Eggs | No |
| Soy | No |
| Fish | No |
| Sesame | No |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 550 kcal
- Protein
- 38 g
- Carbs
- 6 g
- Fat
- 42 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sugar
- 4 g
- Sodium
- 480 mg
- Saturated fat
- 15 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Cochinita Pibil (Yucatan Pulled Pork) takes about 180 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a proper project. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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