Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, authentic mexican carnitas. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Authentic Mexican Carnitas is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Authentic Mexican Carnitas is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have authentic mexican carnitas using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Authentic Mexican Carnitas:

1. Get 355 ml bottled Mexican Coca-Cola. Note: American Coca-Cola will
2. Take 6 lb bone in pork shoulder or pork butt sliced into 4inch slices
3. Take 1 sliced up orange with peel
4. Prepare 2 cinnamon sticks
5. Get 2 1/2 lb Manteca lard
6. Make ready 1 cup water
7. Make ready 4 dry bay leaves
8. Prepare 1/2 can (7 ounces) sweetend condensed milk
9. Take 1 1/2 tbsp sea salt
10. Make ready 4 whole fresh cloves of garlic

Steps to make Authentic Mexican Carnitas:

1. On your stove top range, bring temperature of lard to 375°F in a large cooking pot or dutch oven.
2. Add your slices of pork to the 375°F lard, and allow pork to sear until brown, stirring frequently as to not let the pork stick to the pot.
3. Add cinnamon sticks, then add oranges by squeezing juice into cooking pot, and then drop in squeezed oranges peel and all. let cook frequently stirring for half an hour.
4. Now it’s time to bring down the temperature to 230°F by reducing the heat to medium and adding a cup of water to the boiling lard. don’t worry the lard will not boil over or explode. cook until water evaporates, about 30 minutes, you’ll know this when the level of lard has reduced due to cooking.
5. Add by stirring in the bottle of Mexican Coca-Cola, cloves of garlic, half can (7 ounces) of sweetened condensed milk, dry bay leaves, and sea salt. cook for another hour over medium heat.
6. Carefully remove carnitas and place on paper towel. Then carefully cut carnitas into 2 inch cubes.
7. In a large skillet over medium heat, fry carnitas frequently turning until crispy to your liking.
8. Enjoy with warm tortillas, avocado, cilantro, etc…
9. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

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