Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, carnitas. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really 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. Many find carnitas a little dry or flavorless. These have a great, distinctive flavor and are requested by friends and family over and over.
Carnitas is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Carnitas is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook carnitas using 14 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Carnitas:
- Prepare 1 whole Boston Pork Butt or Picnic Roast; bone-in or out
- Make ready Cooking Liquid
- Take 1 small can of evaporated milk
- Get 1 whole orange
- Make ready 2 whole lemons
- Make ready 2 whole limes
- Take 1 medium/large yellow onion- cut large chunks
- Make ready 1 green bell pepper- seeded & cut large chunks
- Take 8 clove garlic sliced thin
- Make ready 2 cinnamon stick
- Make ready 2-3 bay leaves
- Make ready Rub
- Make ready 1 TBS each dried basil, oregano, cumin, chilli powder
- Prepare 1 TBS each salt, black pepper, garlic powder
The undisputed king of the taco cart. The Mexican answer to American pulled pork, at their best they should be moist, juicy, and ultra-porky with. These Crispy Pork Carnitas are seriously bursting with flavor yet so simple to make! This is the meat you want for your tacos, burritos, sandwiches, you name it.
Steps 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!
When it comes to tacos, Pork Carnitas Tacos are the best of the best. When I was in Mexico last So today, I wanted to share with you the Pork Carnitas tacos that I made at the Good Food and Wine. 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! Mexican pork carnitas, slow cooked, spicy, shredded pork shoulder, finished in the oven for Photography Credit: Elise Bauer.
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