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Desperado Carnitas Recipe

 ·  ☕ 3 min read  ·  ✍️ Dominic Brooks

Desperado Carnitas
Desperado Carnitas

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, desperado carnitas. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Desperado Carnitas is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Desperado Carnitas is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

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

The ingredients needed to make Desperado Carnitas:
  1. Prepare 4 lb boneless pork loin
  2. Make ready 1 cup orange juice
  3. Get 1 tsp salt
  4. Get 1 tbsp dried oregano
  5. Prepare 1 tsp cumin
  6. Prepare 2 tsp chilli powder
  7. Take 1 onion minced
  8. Take 3 garlic cloves minced
  9. Take 1/2 cup washed cilantro, patted dry
  10. Make ready 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)
Instructions 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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