Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, carnitas. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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. The undisputed king of the taco cart. The undisputed king of the taco cart.
Carnitas is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Carnitas is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook carnitas using 14 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Carnitas:
- Make ready 1 whole Boston Pork Butt or Picnic Roast; bone-in or out
- Take Cooking Liquid
- Prepare 1 small can of evaporated milk
- Get 1 whole orange
- Get 2 whole lemons
- Make ready 2 whole limes
- Make ready 1 medium/large yellow onion- cut large chunks
- Prepare 1 green bell pepper- seeded & cut large chunks
- Make ready 8 clove garlic sliced thin
- Get 2 cinnamon stick
- Prepare 2-3 bay leaves
- Prepare Rub
- Make ready 1 TBS each dried basil, oregano, cumin, chilli powder
- Make ready 1 TBS each salt, black pepper, garlic powder
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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!
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