Pulled pork and pickled slaw tacos recipe
Spit-roast pork is an incredible experience – meat that literally falls apart in your hands and tastes so good you wish you were back in medieval times, gorging on it day in and day out.
This oven-braised version recreates that incredible encounter with slow-cooked pig and adds even more flavours for your taste buds to get excited about.
Ingredients
- 1 kg shoulder of pork
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- 1 tsp smoked paprika
- 3 tbsp tomato ketchup
- 2 tbsp white wine vinegar
- 2 onions
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 handful of fresh oregano
- 1 orange, juice only
- 0.5 red cabbage
- 2 small carrots
- 1 bunch of fresh coriander, chopped
- 1 tbsp caster sugar
- 1 lime, juice only
- 2 tbsp white wine vinegar
- 8 corn taco shells
Details
- Cuisine: Mexican
- Recipe Type: Main
- Difficulty: Easy
- Preparation Time: 30 mins
- Cooking Time: 130 mins
- Serves: 4
Step-by-step
- Preheat the oven to 150°C. Cut as much fat off the shoulder of pork as you can.
- Rub the meat with the cumin, paprika and ketchup. Put it into a large saucepan that has a tight-fitting lid. Peel and slice the onions.
- Add to the pan with all the other pulled-pork ingredients and a splash of water. Put the lid on the pan and cook in the oven for 2 hours.
- Shred the cabbage as finely as you can and dump into a big bowl. Peel and grate the carrot and add to the cabbage with the coriander.
- Mix the sugar, lime juice and vinegar in a cup, season with salt and pepper and pour over the slaw mix to combine. Remove the shoulder from the pan after the 2 hours are up and put to one side.
- Put the pan on the hob and reduce the liquid by at least half until it has a syrupy consistency. Take the fat off the shoulder and discard.
- Pull the rest of the pork into strips using two forks... it should fall apart. Pour the syrupy juices back over the pulled pork.
- Serve the warm pork with a little of the crispy shredded lettuce, pickled slaw and a dollop of the sour cream, with optional chilli, all piled into a corn taco. Best served with a Mexican beer.
Recipe taken from Beginners get... Sorted.
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