Carne Advovada Ala Heather

Heather, over at Rocky Mountain Cooking, recently posted her recipe for Carne Advovada and it sounded too good to pass up, especially since I’d found adaptable ingredients while freezer diving - check out her site for the recipe she used.  According to Wikipedia “Adobada is generally pork marinated in a "red" chilli sauce with vinegar and oregano, …” and after looking at several recipes on-line this seemed to be accurate, but since Heather’s use of green chile sauce is the part that appealed to me, I decided to stick with hers. 

Carne Advovada - Adapted from Rocky Mountain Cooking

Ingredients:

2 pounds of pork loin, cut into cubes

3/8 cup red chili powder (like Heather, I used Hatch)

½ tbs. salt

2 cans Hatch hot, chopped green chilies – I used canned to save my last bag of the good ones

½ large onion, diced

5 cloves garlic, minced

1 tsp. ground cumin

38 oz. of homemade chile verde

Instructions:

1. Trim pork and cut into cubes, both small and medium sized.

2. In a bowl combine chili powder and salt.

3. In a large bowl, add pork and chili/salt mixture and mix well with your hands until all the pork is covered in the chili.

4. Cover let sit overnight.

5. Add everything to the Crockpot and cook on high for an hour, then reduce to low and cook for 6-8 hours or until pork loin is very tender.

We just rolled it in a flour tortilla and topped with some shredded lettuce and sour cream and I thought it was delicious.  The shredded meat came from the Chile Verde and the cubes are the pork loin.

Since a big part of my dish was our homemade chile verde and Heather used green chile sauce with pork, I suspect the two were somewhat different but I believe we did use the same Hatch red chile powder which had to have made them taste very similar.  I think this dish basically turned my green chile into red and I don’t know if it is classical Carne Advovada, but I loved it this way - much better than my shots of it showed.

Next time, I would not use the pork loin cubes but would make it as Heather did or just add the right portion of the other ingredients to my Chile Verde - the canned hot chiles added plenty of heat.  I think it would have been very good atop most any starch - potato, rice, pasta, chips, etc.

Thanks Heather for several delicious meals.

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Have a great day and thanks for stopping by Almost Heaven South.

Larry

10/22/14 meal date