🇬🇾 Garlic Pork Recipe Guyanese Style 🇬🇾

pork shoulder

🥗Healthier: chicken thigh

💰Cheaper: pork loin

Chicken thigh offers similar flavor with less fat.

soy sauce

🥗Healthier: tamari

💰Cheaper: liquid aminos

Tamari is gluten-free while maintaining umami flavor.

brown sugar

🥗Healthier: coconut sugar

💰Cheaper: white sugar

Coconut sugar adds a caramel note with lower glycemic index.

scotch bonnet pepper

🥗Healthier: jalapeño

💰Cheaper: serrano pepper

Jalapeños provide heat with less intensity.

Wash and dry the pork shoulder thoroughly, then cut it into about four pieces.

In a mortar and pestle, smash thyme and garlic, then add weary weary pepper and pimento pepper and crack them.

Place the smashed ingredients in a bowl with the pork and mix well with the seasonings.

Pack the seasoned pork into a clean jar, adding thyme stems, sugar, salt, clove, and black peppercorn on top.

Pour white vinegar into the jar until the pork is fully submerged, then cover tightly and let it pickle for 3-4 days at room temperature or 7 days in the fridge.

After pickling, strain the pork and let it drip off.

Prepare additional seasoning by finely chopping spicy thyme, celery leaves, and pimento pepper, and mincing garlic.

Dry the pork pieces and brush off excess seasoning.

Heat a pan over medium-high heat and add about 3 tablespoons of oil.

Add the pork to the hot oil and pour in a quarter cup of water, then cover to cook for a few minutes.

Flip the pork when the water reduces to half, covering again to prevent splatter until the pork is browned.

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