Simple Way to Prepare Award-winning Pork Carnitas
Pork Carnitas. Transfer the pork shoulder to a large baking sheet, reserving the cooking liquid. Drizzle with a small amount of the reserved cooking liquid and lightly season with salt. Place the pork in a slow cooker and top with the onion, garlic, and jalapeno.
Top with cheese, avocados, tomatoes, onion, lettuce and, if desired, cilantro. Fold in bottom and sides of tortillas. Made with all natural ingredients like traditional Mexican Carnitas, these Carnitas can be made in the slow cooker, pressure cooker or oven – directions provided for all.
Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, pork carnitas. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Transfer the pork shoulder to a large baking sheet, reserving the cooking liquid. Drizzle with a small amount of the reserved cooking liquid and lightly season with salt. Place the pork in a slow cooker and top with the onion, garlic, and jalapeno.
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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook pork carnitas using 14 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Pork Carnitas:
- Make ready 500 gr of pork.
- Make ready 1 tsp of black pepper.
- Make ready 1 tsp of salt.
- Prepare 1 tsp of oregano.
- Make ready 1 tsp of cumin.
- Get 1/2 tsp of paprika powder.
- Make ready 1 of onion.
- Get 3 cloves of garlic.
- Get of Lime juice from 1/2 lemon.
- Make ready of Orange juice from 1 orange.
- Get 2 of bay leaves.
- Get 150 ml of Cola (use cola that contain sugar instead of artificial sweeteners).
- Get of Water.
- Make ready 2 of Medium tortilla (cut it into 4 small tortilla).
Carnitas — which means "little meats" in Spanish — is a Mexican pork dish. An inexpensive, heavily marbled cut of pork, such as boneless Boston butt, pork shoulder or picnic ham, is braised or simmered for several hours with seasonings and lard until it is so tender that is can be shredded. At the end of cooking, the meat is roasted to make. Add pork, onion, garlic, chili powder and cumin.
Steps to make Pork Carnitas:
- Clean the pork, and place it in the cooking pot.
- Mix black pepper, salt, oregano, cumin, and paprika powder in a small bowl, and use the mixture to season the pork.
- Add garlic and onion.
- Squeeze in 1/2 lemon.
- Add orange juice, cola, some water, and bay leaves.
- Mix it well.
- Stew it for 2 hours until the pork is tender.
- If the pork have reached its tenderness, place it on a board, shred it using 2 forks.
- Place the pulled pork in a baking sheet, add the remaining sauce from the stew, and mix it well.
- Bake it in the oven for 30 minutes (170 degree Celsius). Flipp it after the First 15 minutes, so both side of pulled pork become crispy.
- Place the tortilla in a plate, add the crispy pulled pork, some garnish on it, and Fold it.
- Pork carnitas is ready to be served.
- For garnish: chopped cherry tomatoes, chopped onion, chopped coriander leaves.
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Stir in orange juice and lime juice, scraping any browned bits from the bottom of the skillet. Remove from heat; season with salt and pepper, to taste. Crispy Pork Carnitas (Mexican Slow Cooked Pulled Pork) is a winner! The closest recipe to authentic Mexican Carnitas (NO LARD), with a perfect crisp finish! Tender and juicy on the inside while deliciously crisp and golden on the edges!
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