SandwichNovember 26, 2017
Garlicky Cuban Pork Sliders
More proof that just about anything that is usually wrapped in a tortilla can easily be repurposed to make an insanely great slider.
These are a combination of pulled pork cooked with cuban flavors topped with mojo. The spicy mayo and the sweet roll bring it home.
Mise en Place
Veggies
- 3 + 3juice oranges, juiced
- 1 + 1lime, zest and juice
- 1 + 1 sprigsoregano, leaves only on one, stalk of other
- 1 + 1 headsgarlic, 1 roughly chopped, 1 minced
- 1 largeonion, sliced
- 1bay leaf
Meats
- 4-5 lbPork Shoulder, cut into big pieces (6-8)
Staples
- 2 tbsbrown sugar
- 2 tbs + 1/2 cupEV olive oil
- 1 tbsground cumin
- mayo
- hot sauce
- kosher salt
- slider rolls (i like kings hawaiian)
Equipment
- 1Electric pressure cooker
- 1Stick blender (regular blender is fine too)
- 2Sauce pans
Directions
- Liberally salt pork (2 tbs worth for 5 lbs of meat should do the trick)
- Combine juice of 3 oranges, juice of 1 lime, zest of 1 lime, leaves of 1 sprig of oregano leaves, cumin, 1 roughly chopped head garlic, brown sugar into a jar and blend with stick blender
- Put pressure cooker on saute mode, add 2 tbs of oil and sear pork in batches.
- Once all pork is browned, put all of it back into pressure cooker, add sauce and a bay leaf
- Cook on high pressure for 70 minutes. Once done, let it naturally depressurise
- Meanwhile, heat oil on medium in a sauce pan
- In another sauce pan, put onions, a big pinch of salt, the rest of the orange and lime juice, plus the finely minced head of garlic and oregnao . Bring to a simmer
- Pour oil over onion mixture, cover, reduce heat to low, and let cook 5 minutes. Turn off heat and let cool.
- Mix some mayo and hot sauce together in a ratio that seams pleasing. Start with 1/4 cup mayo and a few dashes of hot sauce and go from there. Add a pinch of salt while you are at it.
- Once pork is done, evac pork. Skim oil off remaining sauce, and turn on the saute function. Reduce sauce by half
- Shred pork using two forks, toss with remaining sauce.
- Strain onions, pick out oregano.
- To assemble sliders: take a bun, open it, slater with mayo on both sides, put pork on one side and onions on the other, close it. Eat!