Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with Simply Recipes contributor Hank Shaw‘s Cochinita Pibil, or pulled pork braised in citrus and achiote. ~Elise

Cochinita pibil (ko-chin-ee-ta pee-beel) is an easy braised pork dish that originally comes from the Yucatan in Mexico. It is one of my girlfriend Holly’s favorite dishes to cook, and ever since she first encountered recipes for it, first in Diana Kennedy’s The Cuisines of Mexico and then in a book called Mexican Border Flavors. Holly makes it whenever she can.

This is gorging food. We once made it with nearly four pounds of pork shoulder and invited another couple over for dinner – we ate the whole thing, with a pile of rice and lots of beer. It’s so good you’ll find yourself fighting over the last shreds of meat.

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