Cuban Roast Pork

Name: Cuban Roast Pork
Yield: Serves 6-8
Ingredients: 1 tbsp dried oregano; 1 tbsp cumin seeds; Sautéed Sweet Potatoes with Thyme, to serve; 6 garlic cloves; 1.8 kg (4 lb) shoulder of pork, trimmed; ½ tbsp black pepper corns; juice of 2 limes; juice of 1 orange; pinch of salt; 25 ml (1 fl oz) sherry; 2 tbsp olive oil

Preparation info

Serves
6-8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Food for Friends

By Levi Roots

Published 2010

About

Try this for Sunday lunch and your family will be knocked out. It is one of the tastiest pork dishes ever, I am told, and eating it cold in sandwiches is almost as good.

Ingredients

1 tbsp cumin seeds
½ tbsp black pepper corns
6 garlic

Method

Heat a small, heavy pan over a medium heat. Add the cumin and peppercorns and stir constantly for 2 minutes, or until fragrant and beginning to brown, then cool. Using a mortar and pestle, crush the toasted spices with the garlic, oregano and salt to make a paste. (You can also do this in the bowl of a small food processor.)
Transfer the spice mixture to a smal