Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, carnitas. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Seasoned with oregano, cumin, chili powder, lime juice, these Mexican Slow Cooker Pork Carnitas Tacos are the perfect dinner for any night of the week. The undisputed king of the taco cart. The undisputed king of the taco cart.
Carnitas is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Carnitas is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have carnitas using 14 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Carnitas:
- Get 1 whole Boston Pork Butt or Picnic Roast; bone-in or out
- Get Cooking Liquid
- Prepare 1 small can of evaporated milk
- Make ready 1 whole orange
- Take 2 whole lemons
- Get 2 whole limes
- Prepare 1 medium/large yellow onion- cut large chunks
- Make ready 1 green bell pepper- seeded & cut large chunks
- Prepare 8 clove garlic sliced thin
- Make ready 2 cinnamon stick
- Prepare 2-3 bay leaves
- Prepare Rub
- Make ready 1 TBS each dried basil, oregano, cumin, chilli powder
- Take 1 TBS each salt, black pepper, garlic powder
Mexican pork carnitas, slow cooked, spicy, shredded pork shoulder, finished in the oven Enter any Mexican taqueria in California and you'll find carnitas on the menu, usually pork butt (the shoulder. Pork Carnitas are pieces of pork meat slow-cooked in copper cauldrons in an open fire. To cook pork carnitas at home is a very easy task. There are lots of recipes that use herbs, and some of them even.
Instructions to make Carnitas:
- Pull meat out of fridge 30-60 minutes prior to cooking to warm it to room temp. Can be done while prepping all other ingredients. Not required. Have slow cooker all set up and the insert not in the cooker. I use a crockpot bag alot for easier cleanup.
- Mix together all the in ingredients for the rub and have on a large plate or baking sheet. Set aside.
- Now for the cooking liquid. Juice your lemons, limes and orange. Put peels in the crockpot with the onion, peppers, garlic, cinnamon and bay leaves.
- After removing pork from package and drying with paper towel cover entire chunk of pork with with the rub.
- I a large skillet heated to medium-high heat brown your pork on all sides.
- Now put the pork in the crockpot. You can deglaze the skillet and put all that good stuff in the crockpot also. Add the evaporated milk and fruit juices to crockpot as well.
- Now put the lid on on put it in the cooker. Cook on low heat 6-8 hours or high for 3-4 hours.
- After cooking, take meat out of crockpot in a large baking dish. Shred the pork using 2 forks or tongs. Then strain your cooking juice and save for crisping the shredded pork, reheating or even use it for your next Carnitas batch-but be sure to freeze it!
Carnitas is a traditional Mexican main dish and filling used in tacos and other dishes. Typically made with less expensive cuts of pork, the cooking method employed for carnitas renders the meat soft. Carnitas tacos are made with crispy and juicy carnitas, red onion, cilantro and toppings! An easy slow cooker or Crock Pot recipe perfect for Taco Tuesday! These are the BEST Pork Carnitas (Slow Cooker Mexican Pulled Pork) you will ever try!
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