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Photo: Popo le Chien, CC BY-SA 3.0, croppedCochinita pibil
/kotʃiˈnita piˈβil/koh-chee-NEE-tah pee-BEEL
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- When
- BreakfastLunch & dinner
- Taste
- SavorySour
- Made with
- Pork
History
Cochinita pibil is a Yucatec Maya dish of pork marinated in sour orange juice and achiote paste, which turns it deep red, wrapped in banana leaves and slow-cooked in a píib, an earth oven of hot stones. The name means "little pig cooked in the pit". Before the Spanish brought pigs, the Maya cooked wild animals such as deer and peccary this way. Today it is shredded and eaten in tacos, or in tortas on Sunday mornings in Mérida, with pickled red onion and habanero salsa. In many homes and restaurants it is cooked in a conventional oven, but the pit version is still made for festivals.
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