Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, carnitas. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. 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 favored of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Carnitas is something that I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook carnitas using 10 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Carnitas:
- Get 2 lbs pork shoulder
- Make ready 1 orange
- Prepare 1-2 jalapeños
- Prepare 2-4 cloves garlic
- Take 1 onion
- Make ready 1 tbsp cumin
- Prepare 1 tbsp oregano
- Take 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
- Prepare to taste Salt & pepper
- Take Extra virgin olive oil
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.
Instructions to make Carnitas:
- Mix together 1 onion, 1-3 jalapeños, 1-3 garlic cloves (all this minced), and orange zest. Put some on bottom of crock pot, then add pork, & some more mix on top of pork. Cut orange into 4 pieces- squeeze juice over top of pork & then put orange sections in each corner.
- Cook on low 8-10 hrs. If there's a fat cap on pork, I put that side up. If a lot of fat, may need to remove this after cooking
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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