The "Chinese box" or Caja China is a portable oven whose history goes back to the fifties in Cuba, when Chinese immigrants arrived in Caribbean lands and cooked meats underground. Later, they covered the food with a metal plate on which they placed embers and after four hours, they had a delicious and juicy meat.
Ingredients
- 7 kg Pork
- 10 Lemons
- ½ cup of Coca-Cola
- Salt
- MSG or Seasoning or fish sauce
- Pepper
- 1 beer
- 2 cloves of garlic (optional)
Instructions
- Thoroughly clean the pork and let it soak in salted water for about 30min. or 1 hr.
- Mix the rosemary, salt, coke, pepper, lemon juice and seasoning.
- Macerate the pork.
- Preheat the Chinese box about 20min, then put the pork (Tip:"at the beginning put the skin side down").
- Leave it for 1hr. for each side (checking every 30min).
- Spread the beer all over the pork at the beginning and the middle of cooking.
Recipe by PERU DELIGHTS at https://perudelights.com/chancho-a-la-caja-china/