{"id":7635,"date":"2026-02-15T18:54:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recipe4thecook.com\/\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T18:54:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:54:53","slug":"lechon-asado-roast-pork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/pork\/blog\/2026\/02\/15\/lechon-asado-roast-pork\/","title":{"rendered":"Lechon Asado Roast Pork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><b><font face=\"comic sans ms\" size=\"5\">Ingredients<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p>1 each 5 or 6-pound. leg of pork(fresh ham)<br \/>\n3 Tbsp. minced fresh garlic<br \/>\npinch(est) ground bay leaves<br \/>\nbig pinch ground oregano<br \/>\nbig pinch ground cumin<br \/>\n1 Tbsp. olive oil<br \/>\n1\/4 C. sour orange juice (or equal parts orange and lime juice)<br \/>\n1\/4 C. white wine or dry sherry<br \/>\nfresh ground black pepper to taste<br \/>\n2 large onions, sliced<br \/>\n4 each or 5 potatoes, peeled and quartered<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><b><font face=\"comic sans ms\" size=\"5\">Cooking Instructions<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Trim excess fat from roast and stick it all over with the tip of a knife. Mash the garlic into  a paste, then mash in the ground bay leaf, oregano, cumin and olive oil. Rub this all over  the roast. Place roast in a big pan or dish (not aluminum), then sprinkle with pepper and  douse with sour orange juice and wine. Scatter the onions over the roast, then wrap entire  roast in plastic and refrigerate. Marinate at least one hour or overnight (longer is better).  Turn the roast several times in the marinade. Heat oven to 350. Put the meat in a roasting  pan (not aluminum), save the marinade, and place in the oven. Cook for an hour, fat side  down. Turn roast fat side up, add marinade and onions, and reduce heat to 325; tent  loosely with foil if needed. Baste frequently with the pan juices and continue cooking  until done (30-35 minutes to the pound minimum; 180 very well done). Add water or  wine if drippings begin to smoke or burn. Let sit before carving.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&quot;Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day--&quot; (Colossians 2:16)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pork<\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/pork\/blog\/2026\/02\/15\/lechon-asado-roast-pork\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pork"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/pork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/pork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/pork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/pork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/pork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/pork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/pork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/pork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/pork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}