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Tacos Carnitas Recipe

 ·  ☕ 4 min read  ·  ✍️ Craig Warren

Tacos Carnitas
Tacos Carnitas

Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, tacos carnitas. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Tacos Carnitas is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Tacos Carnitas is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

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 tacos are made with crispy and juicy carnitas, red onion, cilantro and toppings!

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook tacos carnitas using 14 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Tacos Carnitas:
  1. Get 4-5 lbs pork butt or shoulder
  2. Take 3 tsp salt
  3. Prepare 1 tsp black pepper
  4. Make ready 1 tbsp dried oregano
  5. Get 1 tbsp ground cumin
  6. Get 1 tbsp garlic powder (or 8 gloves smashed)
  7. Take 2 tbsp lime juice (or two limes juiced)
  8. Prepare 1 large white onion cut into circles about half a pinkies width
  9. Make ready 1/2 cup orange juice
  10. Get 3/4 cup coke
  11. Get Toppings of Carnitas/tortilla
  12. Make ready 2 stalks cilantro cut up finely
  13. Take 1 large white onion diced
  14. Make ready White or yellow corn tortillas

Carnitas Tacos (pulled pork tacos) are THE BEST ever! The slow cooker Mexican pork is unbelievably tender and flavorful. Add a scoop of guacamole to a tortilla (or lettuce wrap. These carnitas tacos are made with moist, tender pork shoulder, avocado, onion, tomatillo salsa, lime, and cilantro.

Steps to make Tacos Carnitas:
  1. In slower cooker add pork (it may help if you cut it into 6 or so big chunks
  2. Add the salt, pepper, oregano, cumin, garlic, onions, lime juice, orange juice, and coke into slow cooker
  3. Cover on high heat for 6-8 hours (Until meat falls apart)
  4. Remove pork and shred with two forks. (Do not discard the juice)
  5. (Optional) transfer the pulled pork to a baking sheet LINED WITH FOIL. Use a bbq spread brush spread some of the juice from crock pot over the meat. Put on broil till a desired Crispyness. THEN Put meat back into slow cooker to sit in the juices and be served from the pot.
  6. On a frying pan on medium heat put on corn tortillas.
  7. They should not quite be browned but right before that. Make sure you flip and do both sides. (Should be served soft and warm)
  8. Assemble tacos with the meat, some of the diced white onion, and sprinkle on some cilantro
  9. I love the Herdez mild guacamole salsa on top too! Also if you have a few fresh limes cut into wedges to squeeze on top! That’s the best!
  10. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

Add a scoop of guacamole to a tortilla (or lettuce wrap. These carnitas tacos are made with moist, tender pork shoulder, avocado, onion, tomatillo salsa, lime, and cilantro. Great party food for a crowd, a weekend dinner, or outdoor entertaining. Melt in your mouth carnitas tacos are topped with pickled onions and homemade guacamole for a perfectly delicious and simply meal! And today it’s all about these Carnitas Tacos topped with guac!

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