MOJO MARINADE (about 2 cups)
2 heads of garlic, peeled and chopped
2 tablespoons ground cumin
2 tablespoons kosher salt, plus more to taste
2 tablespoons black pepper, plus more to taste
2 cups sour orange juice, or 1 cup fresh orange juice and 1 cup fresh lime juice
¼ cup extra virgin olive oil
¼ cup fresh oregano leaves, roughly chopped
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1. Combine garlic, cumin, salt and pepper in a large mixing bowl and mash the mixture together with the back of a wooden spoon to make a kind 0f paste. Stir the sour orange juice (or orange and lime juice) and oil into the paste and whisk to combine. Add oregano leaves and mix again.
NOTE: See clam and chourico dressing for accompaniments.
from the New York Times, November 18, 2014