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Desperado Carnitas Recipe

 ·  ☕ 3 min read  ·  ✍️ Scott Walters

Desperado Carnitas
Desperado Carnitas

Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, desperado carnitas. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Desperado Carnitas is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Desperado Carnitas is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have desperado carnitas using 12 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Desperado Carnitas:
  1. Prepare 4 lb boneless pork loin
  2. Get 1 cup orange juice
  3. Get 1 tsp salt
  4. Make ready 1 tbsp dried oregano
  5. Prepare 1 tsp cumin
  6. Make ready 2 tsp chilli powder
  7. Prepare 1 onion minced
  8. Make ready 3 garlic cloves minced
  9. Take 1/2 cup washed cilantro, patted dry
  10. Take 2 jalapeno peppers, gutted and chopped
  11. Make ready 1/2 tsp black pepper
  12. Make ready 1/2 cup tequila (use cheap lousy stuff like quervo)
Steps to make Desperado Carnitas:
  1. Grease the inside of your slow cooker with olive oil on a paper towel or butter
  2. Rub pork with cumin, chilli powder, salt, pepper, oregano
  3. Add pork to slow cooker, fat side down.
  4. Add orange juice, tequila, garlic, onion, cilantro and jalapeno
  5. Cover and cook on low for 10 hrs. Trust me about the time.
  6. After 10 hours, remove pork and shred with two forks in a large bowl until meat is stringy. Let cool to room temp. Reserve ALL cooking liquid in another bowl and cool to room temp. Place both items in fridge overnight.
  7. There will be a layer of fat from cooking liquid on top. Skim off, or spoon a hole in one corner to let liquid pass through. Strain liquid through a mash strainer to catch any solids.
  8. Use a large pot and bring liquid to a simmer. Add all pulled pork. Simmer until all liquid has been absorbed. Transfer meat to an oiled preheated frying pan.
  9. Fry pork until slightly crisped on one layer (dont stir meat) 5 to 7 min.
  10. Serve with warm tortillas, on a sandwich, over rice… Anything you feel like. Enjoy ;)
  11. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

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