Name: Instant Pot Cuban Pork
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 80 min
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice; 1/3 cup fresh orange juice; 6 cloves garlic (minced); 3-4 pound boneless pork shoulder; 2 teaspoons dried oregano; 2 teaspoons ground cumin; 1 ½ teaspoons kosher salt; 1 teaspoon ground black pepper; 1/2 cup reduced-sodium chicken broth

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Best Instant Pot Cuban Pork recipe! This quick dump-and-go recipe turns pork shoulder into a flavorful, garlicky pork dinner.

Cuban pork sandwich on a piece of brown parchment paper.

If you’ve never had Cuban pork, get ready for a treat! Cuban pork is flavorful, garlicky shredded pork that is beyond delicious in Cuban sandwiches.

This Instant Pot Cuban pork is a really simple way to make the pork. It takes just a few minutes of prep, and then the pressure cooker does all the work turning the roast into super tender pork.

So you get to enjoy a fantastic dinner with almost no prep work!

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🔪 How to make
🥪 How to make a Cuban pork sandwich
🥗 Other serving suggestions
💭 Tips
🥘 How to store
🍲 More Instant Pot Cuban-inspired recipes!
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🔪 How to make

Uncooked pork in an instant pot inner pot.

Add the lime juice, orange juice, and garlic to the Instant Pot inner pot. Stir to combine.

Place the pork into the inner pot. Season the pork with oregano, cumin, salt, and pepper. Pour the broth around the pork

Close and lock the lid. Turn the pressure release valve to SEALING.

Cook. Let the pressure release naturally for 15 minutes. Turn the pressure release valve to VENTING to release any remaining pressure.

Shred the pork with two forks and stir into the cooking liquid. If you’d like to make sandwiches with the pork, check out the instructions below.

🥪 How to make a Cuban pork sandwich

Where I live, I can’t get authentic Cuban bread for the sandwiches. So, I use ciabatta rolls instead.

To build the sandwich, I stack a slice of Swiss cheese, a couple slices of ham, Cuban pork, a couple of dill pickle spears, and then a generous squirt of yellow mustard.

🥗 Other serving suggestions

If you aren’t in the mood for sandwiches, this pork is also delicious served with a side of rice and black beans. Or you can serve the shredded pork in a soft taco shell.

💭 Tips

Pork shoulder: You can also use a boneless pork butt in this recipe.
Kosher salt: If you’d prefer to use table salt, use ¾ teaspoon.
Chicken broth: I prefer to use reduced-sodium broth to better control the salt level. You can use regular or no-salt if you prefer.

🥘 How to store

This pork will keep for up to 4 days, covered, in the fridge. You can also freeze cooked and cooled portions of the pork in resealable freezer containers to use for later.

🍲 More Instant Pot Cuban-inspired recipes!

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Salsa chicken and rice in a burrito bowl with beans and corn — Instant Pot Beef Picadillo

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5 from 2 votes

Instant Pot Cuban Pork

Tender Cuban pork that's cooked in the Instant Pot. This super flavorful shredded pork makes delicious Cuban sandwiches.

Course Main Course

Cuisine Cuban

Keyword Instant Pot Cuban Pork, Instant Pot Cuban Pork recipe, Instant Pot Cuban Pork sandwiches

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 45 minutes

Pressure Release 15 minutes

Total Time 1 hour 20 minutes

Servings servings

Calories 229kcal

Author Cook Dinner Tonight

Equipment

Instant Pot/Electric Pressure Cooker

Ingredients

2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
⅓ cup fresh orange juice
6 cloves garlic minced
3-4 pound boneless pork shoulder
2 teaspoons dried oregano
2 teaspoons ground cumin
1 ½ teaspoons kosher salt
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
½ cup reduced-sodium chicken broth

Instructions

Add the lime juice, orange juice, and garlic to the Instant Pot inner pot.
Stir to combine.
Place the pork into the inner pot.
Season the pork with oregano, cumin, salt, and pepper.
Pour the broth around the pork
Close and lock the lid.
Turn the pressure release valve to SEALING.
Press MANUAL high pressure and adjust the time to 45 minutes.
Let the pressure release naturally for 15 minutes.
Turn the pressure release valve to VENTING to release any remaining pressure.
Shred the pork with two forks and stir into the cooking liquid.
If you’d like to make sandwiches with the pork, check out the instructions above the recipe.

Notes

Pork shoulder: You can also use a boneless pork butt in this recipe.
Kosher salt: If you’d prefer to use table salt, use ¾ teaspoon.
Chicken broth: I prefer to use reduced-sodium broth to better control the salt level. You can use regular or no-salt if you prefer.
Nutrition values are estimates.

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Comments

Em

January 08, 2021 at 7:46 pm

Love this!!! Thanks for sharing!

- Kate Dean
  
  January 15, 2021 at 2:57 am
  
  Thanks!!
  
Natalie

February 10, 2021 at 9:58 pm

Fam loved it! Will make again.

- Kate Dean
  
  February 10, 2021 at 10:03 pm
  
  I’m so glad that your family liked it!

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