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Pan con Chicharrón

Pan con Chicharrón (placeholder image)
Fried pork and sweet potato in a bread roll with salsa criolla, a Lima weekend breakfast.
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Pan con Chicharrón

120 minTotal
6Servings
3/5Effort
4/5Wow factor

Ingredients

  • 1 kg pork belly, in 6 pieces
  • 2 garlic cloves
  • 1 sweet potato, sliced
  • 6 French rolls
  • 1 red onion, finely sliced
  • 1 ají amarillo, sliced
  • juice of 2 limes
  • cilantro
  • salt

Instructions

  1. Simmer pork with garlic, salt and water to cover 1 hr.
  2. Let the water evaporate and fry the pork in its own fat until crisp.
  3. Fry sweet potato slices in the fat.
  4. Mix onion, ají, lime, cilantro and salt for salsa criolla.
  5. Fill rolls with sweet potato, pork and salsa.