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A delicious recipe for preparing pork to use in making pork tamales. After the meat is cooked and shredded, mix with salsa and refrigerate overnight. If you are making your own tamale dough, you may want to reserve 1 1/4 cup of the broth before draining.

Prep

14 min

Cook

57 min

Servings

Difficulty

Medium

Ingredients

1 pound pork butt roast
2.5 cups water
½ onion
1 clove garlic , peeled
1 bay leaf
salt to taste
8 blacks peppercorns
1 dried red chile pepper

Instructions

1 Trim fat from pork butt. Cut into chunks and place in a large saucepan. Add water, onion, garlic, bay leaf, salt, peppercorns and chile pepper. Bring to a boil; skim foam from surface. Reduce heat, cover and simmer for 1 hour.
2 Drain broth, let meat cool and shred with a fork. Refrigerate overnight if desired.

Nutrition per serving

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