Puerco Pibil - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    5 lbs pork butt, cubed into 2 inch pieces
    5 tablespoons annatto seeds
    2 teaspoons cumin seeds
    1 tablespoon black peppercorns
    8 whole allspice
    1/2 teaspoon whole cloves
    2 red habanero peppers, diced (remove seeds and membrane)
    1/2 cup orange juice
    1/2 cup white vinegar
    2 tablespoons salt
    8 cloves garlic, peeled
    5 lemons, juiced
    1 tablespoon tequila
    banana leaf
Preparation
    Put annato seeds, cumin seeds, peppercorns, allspice and cloves in a clean coffee grinder and grind very fine.
    Put orange juice, white vinegar, habanero peppers, ground spice powder, salt, garlic, lemon juice and tequila in blender.
    Blend until smooth.
    Place cubed pork and liquid from blender in zip loc bag and marinate for one hour.
    Line a 9x13 baking pan with banana leaves.
    Pour pork mixture directly on top of banana leaves and cover with more banana leaves.
    Cover tightly with foil.
    Bake at 325 degrees for 4 hours.

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