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Pork Carnitas Recipe

 ·  ☕ 4 min read  ·  ✍️ Violet Knight

Pork Carnitas
Pork Carnitas

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, pork carnitas. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Made with all natural ingredients like traditional Mexican. These Crispy Pork Carnitas are seriously bursting with flavor yet so simple to make! This is the meat you want for your tacos, burritos, sandwiches, you name it. Many find carnitas a little dry or flavorless.

Pork Carnitas is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Pork Carnitas is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook pork carnitas using 11 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Pork Carnitas:
  1. Make ready 4 lb pork butt
  2. Get 1 large onion
  3. Prepare 1 large orange
  4. Take 1 jalapeno
  5. Make ready 1 can diced green chilies
  6. Take 2 tbsp oregano
  7. Get 1 tbsp cumin
  8. Prepare 2 tbsp olive oil
  9. Get 1 salt and pepper
  10. Make ready 4 clove garlic (crushed or minced)
  11. Prepare 1 can corn (drained)

Pork Carnitas Tacos are a delicious way to enjoy succulent slow cooker Pork Carnitas. Imagine lightly charred corn tortillas filled with tender pork carnitas, warmed in a cast iron skillet to get all of those. Pork carnitas is a Mexican dish made of braized or roasted pieces of pork in their fat, with lardons. Pork carnitas is popular across Mexico and the southwestern United States.

Instructions to make Pork Carnitas:
  1. Rinse and pat dry pork butt.
  2. Preheat oven to 350.
  3. Rub dry meat with olive oil, sprinkling on the oregano, cumin, salt and pepper.
  4. Add to roasting pan with the rough chopped onion, garlic, jalapeno, and green chilies. Salt and pepper liberally.
  5. Roll orange on hard surface to create maximum juice-age, squeeze juice over everything in the roastin pan, also adding in the peels after they’ve been juiced.
  6. Cover and cook for roughly 3-4 hours or until the meat is falling apart.
  7. About 3 hours in, when its getting there add drained can of corn to the pan, recover and finish the cooking process.
  8. When it has reached the right tenderness, remove from the oven, bump up the temp to 450.
  9. Drain juice/fat from roasting pan, set aside for later use.
  10. After the meat has had a minute to sit and cool a bit, pull the meat apart, be careful to still leave chunks, you don’t want this to be pulled pork, unless thats what you’re going for, in that case, go for it.
  11. Once its all pulled and seperated, return to the oven to crisp the top/edges, it adds awesome texture and it looks nice. (15 minutes or so)
  12. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

Pork carnitas is a Mexican dish made of braized or roasted pieces of pork in their fat, with lardons. Pork carnitas is popular across Mexico and the southwestern United States. Carnitas, literally meaning little meats, is a dish of Mexican cuisine that originated in the state of Michoacán. Carnitas are made by braising or simmering pork in oil or preferably lard until tender. The process takes three to four hours, and the result is very tender and juicy meat. ↑ http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/melissa-darabian/pork-carnitas-recipe/index.html.

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