Garlic Pork

Name: Garlic Pork
Cuisine: Trinidad & Tobago
Ingredients: ¾ cup white vinegar; 2 pounds boneless pork shoulder, cut into ½-inch thick slices; 1 Scotch bonnet pepper or other hot red chili pepper, seeded; 2 teaspoons coarse salt; 1 head garlic, peeled; ¼ cup fresh oregano, or 1 tablespoon dried; ¼ cup fresh oregano, or 1 tablespoon dried; 1 Scotch bonnet pepper or other hot red chili pepper, seeded

Preparation info

Serves:
4 to 6

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Sweet Hands

By Ramin Ganeshram

Published 2018

About

Pickling meat and fish is often considered a Jamaican cooking technique, but it occasionally finds it’s way into Trini dishes as well. You need to plan ahead for this dish but the long marinating time for the pork yields a tender, flavorful meat.

Ingredients

2 pounds boneless pork shoulder, cut into ½-inch thick slices
¾ cup white vinegar
1

Americas
Trinidad & Tobago
Main course
Caribbean
Gluten-free
Spicy

Method

Rinse the pork with ¼ cup of the vinegar and place in a glass or other nonreactive dish.
Using a food processor, grind the garlic, oregano, chili pepper, and salt into a coarse paste. Add the remaining ½