Chancho a la Caja China
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Recipe type: Rustic
Cuisine: Peruvian
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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
  1. - Thoroughly clean the pork and let it soak in salted water for about 30min. or 1 hr.
  2. - Mix the rosemary, salt, coke, pepper, lemon juice and seasoning.
  3. - Macerate the pork.
  4. - Preheat the Chinese box about 20min, then put the pork (Tip:"at the beginning put the skin side down").
  5. - Leave it for 1hr. for each side (checking every 30min).
  6. - 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/