Pork Carnitas Sandwiches with Tomato Sauce and Pickled Onions, Correa Style from San Diego

Name: Pork Carnitas Sandwiches with Tomato Sauce and Pickled Onions, Correa Style from San Diego
Total time: 2400 s
Yield: 8 people
Ingredients: 8 large sesame seed rolls; 1 cup black beans mashed with epazote and mint to taste; 3 cups onions pickled in sour orange juice, sea salt, and dried oregano with a splash of tequila; 2 cups or to taste chopped cooked pork carnitas, Michoacán style; 200 g ripe tomatoes; 3 roasted xoconostles, peeled, seeded, and chopped; 1 large onion, peeled and quartered; 4 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped; 1 sprig mint, chopped; Pinch fresh rosemary leaves; Piece cinnamon stick; Splash vinegar; Splash agave or bee honey; Salt or tequesquite

MARTÍN GERARDO RAMÍREZ CORREA @cook_9223802

San Diego de Alejandría, Jal. y León, Gunanajuato, México.

These sandwiches were made similar to the drowned sandwiches from Guadalajara, but on the ranch, it was common to grow tomatoes and cucumbers, and they made the sauce without chili, just with Mexican herbs, garlic, and onion. It was a delight to make use of the leftover carnitas from the parties.

MARTÍN GERARDO RAMÍREZ CORREA @cook_9223802

San Diego de Alejandría, Jal. y León, Gunanajuato, México.

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Ingredients

40 minutes

8 people

8large sesame seed rolls
For the filling:
1 cupblack beans mashed with epazote and mint to taste
3 cupsonions pickled in sour orange juice, sea salt, and dried oregano with a splash of tequila
2 cupsor to taste chopped cooked pork carnitas, Michoacán style
Tomato sauce for Correa sandwiches:
200 gripe tomatoes
3roasted xoconostles, peeled, seeded, and chopped
1large onion, peeled and quartered
4 clovesgarlic, peeled and chopped
1 sprigmint, chopped
Pinchfresh rosemary leaves
Piececinnamon stick
Splashvinegar
Splashagave or bee honey
Salt or tequesquite

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Steps

40 minutes

1

First, make the sauce by boiling all the ingredients with a little filtered or bottled water. Put everything in a pot over medium heat, turn off the heat when it boils, and let it cool. Once cool, blend it very well and set aside. Some people fry it in pork lard, and others add tequila, pulque, or beer, but that's optional.
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Next, cut the rolls in half lengthwise, spread fried beans on the inside of each half, then add some hot carnitas, and finish with a layer of pickled onions.
3

Using a spoon, drizzle sauce on the inside or the tops, close the sandwiches, and drizzle with more sauce. Serve immediately so they don't get soggy. Do this with all four rolls. Serve on a flat plate, unless you want to serve extra sauce, in which case use a deep plate.