Slow Roast
From the Yucatán to your plate
The secret to this tender cochinita pibil is its long roasting time. But the key to the slow-roasted pork's flavor is annatto-seed paste. The thick, deep red paste is one of the many distinctive ingredients of Mexico's Yucatán region. At the new restaurant Mateo's Cocina Latina in Healdsburg, California, its Yucatán-born chef-owner, Mateo Granados, thins the mild, earthy paste with vinegar and water, bathing the pork shoulder in the russet sauce before wrapping it in banana leaves. A 4½-hour roast turns the meat supple and deeply flavored, requiring only a nudge to break into bite-size shards. Serve the pork as Granados does, alongside warm tortillas, spicy-sweet cinnamon-cured red onions and a lime-marinated cabbage-and-radish ensalada.
Cochinita Pibil
Recipe adapted from Mateo Granados, Mateo's Cocina Latina, Healdsburg, CAYield: 4 to 6 servings
Cook Time: 5 hours
- INGREDIENTS
Pork
½ cup annatto-seed paste (also called achiote paste)
¼ cup distilled white vinegar
Kosher salt
1 small package banana leaves (substitute aluminum foil if unavailable)
1 four-pound bone-in pork shoulder
2 garlic cloves, peeled and left whole
1 medium yellow onion, thinly sliced
1 cinnamon stick, broken in half
Ensalada
1 small red cabbage, thinly sliced
1 small bunch radishes, thinly sliced
Juice of 2 limes
Kosher salt
2 large red onions, thinly sliced
3 cups distilled white vinegar
2 cinnamon sticks
3 tablespoons kosher salt
1 package high-quality corn tortillas
About The Chef
Mateo Granados was born in Oxkutzcab, Yucatán, Mexico, and moved to San Francisco in 1989. In 2005, he opened Tendejon de La Calle, a mobile restaurant that "pops up" at farms and wineries across Sonoma County each week. Granados is also the chef-owner of the Healdsburg-based Mateo Granados Catering Company has a private label, El Yuca Mayan habanero sauces, and recently opened his first brick-and-mortar restaurant, Mateo's Cocina Latina.
Mateo's Cocina Latina, 214 Healdsburg Ave., Healdsburg, CA; 707 433-1520 or mateoscocinalatina.com
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