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Carnitas Recipe

 ·  ☕ 4 min read  ·  ✍️ Roxie Nguyen

Carnitas
Carnitas

Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, carnitas. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Carnitas is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Carnitas is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

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. Carnitas — which means little meats in Spanish — is a Mexican pork dish.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have carnitas using 14 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Carnitas:
  1. Get 1 pork shoulder without the bone
  2. Make ready 26 oz pork lard or vegetable if you can’t find the pork one
  3. Make ready 4 pork ears
  4. Get 1/2 cup light beer your choice
  5. Prepare 1/2 cup evaporated milk about (6oz)
  6. Make ready 2 oranges cut in half
  7. Make ready 1 stick cinnamon
  8. Take 4 Bay leaves
  9. Get 4 clove garlic
  10. Take 1 pinch Oregano
  11. Take 1 pinch thyme
  12. Make ready 1 tbsp salt
  13. Prepare 1/4 piece of onion
  14. Get 1 cup water

It’s a staple in Mexican I have a serious love affair with carnitas. It’s one of the easiest recipes imaginable, and transforms a simple. Carnitas can be simply rolled into a corn tortilla, or used as the basis for something more ambitious, like tamales or empanadas. The trick here is patience, especially when the liquid is almost boiled out and.

Steps to make Carnitas:
  1. cut the shoulder into medium size squares
  2. with the stove off,in a deep pot add the lard and cup of water, the lard has to be cold so it doesn’t jump on you, then turn on the stove and let this boil.
  3. the water is to prevent the lard from frying the meat. Once is boiling add the pork, squeeze in the juice of the oranges and leave the peels in the pot, keep the tempeture on medium.
  4. Let this cook for 30 min you don’t have to cover the pot. stir once in a while to prevent the meat from sticking on the bottom
  5. add the ears and move the meat around to make sure everything fits in the pot and let it boil for 30 min.
  6. add onion, garlic, cinnamon, Bay leaves, Oregano, milk, beer and salt. and let it cook for 1 hour.
  7. by now the meat should be ready. take all the meat out and only the meat not the juice on a colander to drain extra juice.
  8. Now if you let the juice seat until is cold you can scoop the lard from the top and reuse it or just discard this is up to you I will use.
  9. Chop the meat and now you can eat it on tacos or serve in a plate with a side of rice and refried beans.
  10. To top the tacos you need to chop onion, cilantro, add some lime and salsa.
  11. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

Carnitas can be simply rolled into a corn tortilla, or used as the basis for something more ambitious, like tamales or empanadas. The trick here is patience, especially when the liquid is almost boiled out and. CARNITAS. ‘Carnitas’ means ‘little meats’ and that’s exactly what this dish creates, the crispiest most succulent pork in the world to have shredded up with homemade pickle, salsa and jalapeños on. See more ideas about carnitas, carnitas recipe, pork carnitas. Pork Carnitas Recipe that is totally real and cooks gradually in a stewing pot, on the stove, or in your moderate cooker before you place it.

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