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Pork Carnitas Tacos Recipe

 ·  ☕ 3 min read  ·  ✍️ Mildred Burke

Pork Carnitas Tacos
Pork Carnitas Tacos

Hey everyone, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, pork carnitas tacos. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Pork Carnitas Tacos is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Pork Carnitas Tacos is something that I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have pork carnitas tacos using 18 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Pork Carnitas Tacos:
  1. Get 1 red onion
  2. Get 1 poblano pepper
  3. Prepare 1/4 oz cilantro
  4. Take 1 roma tomato
  5. Prepare 1 lime
  6. Get 5 tsp white wine vinegar
  7. Take 10 oz ground pork
  8. Make ready 1 tbsp fajita spice blend
  9. Get 1 tbsp chicken stock concentrate
  10. Prepare 1.5 oz tomato paste
  11. Take 2 tbsp sour cream
  12. Take 1 tsp chipotle powder
  13. Make ready 6 flour tortillas
  14. Prepare 1/4 cup monterey jack cheese
  15. Take 2 tsp sugar
  16. Take 2 tsp olive oil
  17. Make ready to taste, salt and pepper
  18. Make ready 1 tbsp water
Instructions to make Pork Carnitas Tacos:
  1. Wash and dry all produce. Halve and peel onion, thinly slice one half and finely chop the other half. Core and slice poblano pepper into 1/2 inch pieces. Chop cilantro, dice tomato, and halve lime.
  2. In medium bowl, combine sliced onion, vinegar, sugar, a pinch of salt, and 1 tbsp water, stir until sugar is dissolved and set aside.
  3. Heat drizzle of olive oil in large pan over medium-high heat. Add pork and season with salt and pepper. Cook until browned and cooked through, breaking up meat into small pieces, (4-6 minutes). Set aside
  4. Heat another drizzle of oil in same pan over medium-high heat, add poblano and chopped onion, season with salt and pepper. Cook until pepper is softened, 3-4 minutes. Return pork to pan with fajita spice, stock concentrate, half of the tomato paste, and a drizzle of water. Cook for another 1-2 minutes
  5. While filling cooks, mix sour cream, a squeeze of lime juice, and a pinch of chipotle powder to a small bowl. Add water a drizzle at a time, until it reaches drizzling consistency. Wrap tortillas in damp paper towel and microwave for 30 seconds to 1 minute
  6. Divide tortillas between 2 plates, top with pork filling, tomato, monterey jack, cilantro, and pickled onions from step 2. Drizzle crema, and enjoy!
  7. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

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