Description
Traditional dish in our family.
Ingredients
- 9 pounds skin-on, bone-in pork shoulder (picnic) roast
- 1 lime, halved
- 10 cloves garlic
- 2 ½ tablespoons salt
- 1 ½ tablespoons olive oil, divided
- 1 tablespoon dried oregano
- 1 ½ teaspoons ground black pepper
- 1 ¼ teaspoons adobo seasoning (such as Goya®)
- 1 teaspoon vinegar
- ¼ teaspoon sazon seasoning
- 2 (12 fluid ounce) cans or bottles beer (such as Budweiser®)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
- Rub pork shoulder all over with lime.
- Mash garlic into paste in a mortar and pestle or pilon. Transfer to a bowl; mix in salt
- 1 tablespoon oil
- oregano
- black pepper
- adobo seasoning
- and vinegar.
- Lift skin off the pork to 1-inch from the narrow part of the bone. Make 3/4-inch slits all over the pork with a sharp knife. Stuff seasoned garlic paste into the slits. Pull skin back over to cover the pork.
- Mix remaining 1/2 teaspoon oil and sazon seasoning together in a small bowl. Rub over the skin of the pork.
- Transfer pork to a large roasting pan. Pour in beer. Cover with aluminum foil
- sealing well.
- Roast in the preheated oven until slightly pink in the center
- about 3 hours.
- Increase oven temperature to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Uncover pork and continue roasting until skin is golden brown and crispy
- about 2 1/2 hours. Remove from oven and let stand for 10 minutes before carving.
Prep Time: 20 mins
Cook Time: 5 hrs 30 mins
Total Time: 6 hrs
Servings: 16