Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, puerto rican roast pork shoulder. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
This recipe is for a bone-in pork shoulder, or pernil. Unlike other recipes in the database, it is cooked at a relatively high heat so that the result is a tender roast with crispy crackling or chicharons. This garlic roasted pork shoulder is a tradition in Puerto Rico for Christmas.
Puerto Rican Roast Pork Shoulder is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Puerto Rican Roast Pork Shoulder is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have puerto rican roast pork shoulder using 3 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Puerto Rican Roast Pork Shoulder:
- Prepare 10 lb Pork picnic shoulder
- Get 1 Garlic
- Prepare 1 as needed Goya adobo seasoning
Plus we tried two different ways of "roasting" it this year that worked really well. Puerto Rican Pernil is typically made from a picnic cut pork shoulder, but I used a Boston butt (which is still the shoulder) since that's what was available. Crispy, juicy Puerto Rican Pernil (Roast Pork) is slow roasted until fall-apart tender. Pernil (or roast pork shoulder) is a popular holiday dish in many Hispanic families.
Steps to make Puerto Rican Roast Pork Shoulder:
- Wash and pat dry pork shoulder
- On the meat side of the pork cut 4-5 deep slits in various places. ( be careful not to pierce the skin side)
- Fill in the slits with a teaspoon size of minced garlic and 1 tablespoon of adobo
- Turn shoulder over and season skin side with pinch of minced garlic and adobo. Massage well
- Place in a 13x9 roasting pan. Cover with aluminum foil and let sit in the fridge a least 4 hours before cooking time. ( it is best to let the pork sit overnight)
- when ready to cook, heat oven to 350. Place pork uncovered in oven and roast for 4-4 1/2 hours until done.
It is one of the many rewards for making this Pernil, or Puerto Rican Roast Pork Shoulder. To make pernil, a Puerto Rican favorite of a pork covered in a garlicky marinade and then roasted, I had to throw out my barbecue instincts, which First instinct to be broken is the cut of the shoulder. For pulled pork, I like to use the butt, which the top half at the elbow joint. Pernil, on the other hand. * Puerto Rican Style Roast Pork Shoulder (adapted from Daisy Cooks). Roasted pork shoulder bliss, here you come.
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