Hot Pepper Pork

In the Southwest, the meat in carne adobada usually means pork and the sauce means chilies spiked with citrus juice or vinegar to preserve the meat as well as flavor it. In the pueblos, women still cure pork by marinating it in a chili sauce and drying it, in strips, in the sun. The result is a spiced pork jerky, which is then pounded and roasted or fried. Even without a preserving function, the chili marinade has an affinity with pork and deliciously penetrates the meat with its spi