Take the pot out of the oven and stir the stew after the first hour. Add an additional 1 cup of water to the pot if the stew seems dry. Recover the pot and return it to the oven to bake until the pork falls apart when you try to cut it with a fork and the sauce is thick, about 1 more hour. Serve the carne adovada hot.
While there's no single way to make New Mexican carne adovada, most recipes are a riff on pork simmered in a chile sauce with a few spices and aromatics. Here, the flavor is amped up with a few untraditional ingredients: raisins, fish sauce, and orange juice concentrate.
Mexican carne adobada can come in all shapes in sizes from simmered chunks to shreds. New Mexican-style carne adovada, on the other hand, is a defined dish consisting of chunks of pork simmered in a chile-based stew. Got it? Good. Let's get into the kitchen. The first step on our path to flavor country is the meat.
Both dishes also use a red chile sauce that highlights the taste and spice of dried chiles, however Carne Adovada is more complex in that it has a hint of sweetness from the sugar and tang from the soy sauce and vinegar to help deepen and intensify the spices and chiles.