Cuban Recipes: Lechon Asado for Noche Buena

Cuban Pork Recipe Perfect For Anyone’s Holiday

This Lechon Asado recipe is typical in Cuban recipes for Noche Buena. It’s tart, fatty, infused with loads of garlic and roasted to perfection. Pretty much a Cuban’s dream come true, and the pinnacle Cuban recipe for Noche Buena. I got this pretty hunk of meat, and all the other ingredients, at Walmart, who is sponsoring this post. Their low prices make it so much easier to feed a hungry family of Cuban (and honorary Cuban) pork lovers.

This lechon is roasted in your oven (not buried in your backyard above coals. And I’m not saying a whole pig has ever been buried in my backyard. I think…), but I also cook a Cuban style pork in the slow cooker, too. This recipe is as simple as it gets… get the marinade together, let your bad boy soak it all up and roast his little nalgas like nobody’s business – in your oven.

 

Lechon Asado Ingredients

Pork Roast

{the old school Cubans use 1.5 cups Sour Orange Juice, but we do this…}

2 Limes, juiced

1 tablespoon Orange Juice Concentrate, might be more depending on size of your meat

Garlic, lots and lots of garlic (like 20 cloves), crushed

Cumin, depends on your palate, but start with 1 teaspoon and go from there

2 teaspoon Salt

1 teaspoon Pepper

Let all the ingredients in a bowl marinate the meat in the fridge for at least one hour, allowing all the flavors to infuse your pork.

Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Cook for 20-30 minutes. Reduce heat to 350 degrees and cook for up to an hour longer, basting with pork juices occasionally. Remove when the pork is at least 150 degrees. Let cool slightly. Cut into slices before serving with rice, black beans and all the other Noche Buena goodies.

I’m so excited to make a few of my favorite Cuban recipes for my family this Noche Buena, including this super easy Lechon Asado. It never disappoints and is easy to make.

*Disclosure: As a participant of the Walmart Moms Program, I was provided sample and compensation for my efforts in creating this post. All opinions are my own.