Lechona en Bolsa

Whole Piglet or Pig in a Bag

Preparation info
  • 12

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Secrets of Colombian Cooking

By Patricia McCausland-Gallo

Published 2004

  • About

Lechona is a very typical large-event dish in Colombia. The most typical is the Lechona Tolimense: the whole pig bakes in a huge brick oven for eight to ten hours, enough for at least sixty to eighty people to eat from the smallest ones. The pig is bled and the blood used to make Morcillas; the rest of the meat is cut, seasoned, and placed back into the pig’s skin with rice, potatoes, and peas. The cooked pig is displayed and served whole. My