Daddy Eddie's Roast Pork (Pernil), Puerto Rican-Style

Ingredients

• clove sgarlic, or more to taste
• 1/4 cup olive oil
• tablespoon swhite vinegar
• tablespoon sdried oregano
• tablespoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon sground black pepper
• pound spork shoulder, trimmed of excess fat

Instructions

1. Gather all ingredients. Dotdash Meredith Food Studios
2. Combine garlic cloves, olive oil, vinegar, oregano, salt, and black pepper in a mortar and pestle; mash into a paste. Dotdash Meredith Food Studios
3. Cut deep slits into pork with a small knife. Stuff slits with garlic paste; rub any remaining paste over pork. Dotdash Meredith Food Studios
4. Place pork in a plastic roasting bag and put in a roasting pan with a rack. Let marinate in the refrigerator, 8 to 48 hours. Dotdash Meredith Food Studios
5. Take pork out of the refrigerator, uncover, and bring to room temperature, 1 to 2 hours.
6. Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C).
7. Roast pork skin side down in the preheated oven until golden brown, about 2 hours. Dotdash Meredith Food Studios
8. Flip pork and continue roasting, skin side up, until juices run clear and an instant read thermometer inserted into the center reads at least 145 degrees F (63 degrees C), 2 to 4 hours more. Dotdash Meredith Food Studios