Steps to Make Pork Carnitas in 32 Minutes for Mom

Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, pork carnitas. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Many find carnitas a little dry or flavorless. These have a great, distinctive flavor and are requested by friends and family over and over. Serve with warm, fresh tortillas and salsa.

Pork Carnitas is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Pork Carnitas is something that I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook pork carnitas using 14 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Pork Carnitas:

1. Get 500 gr pork
2. Get 1 tsp black pepper
3. Get 1 tsp salt
4. Get 1 tsp oregano
5. Prepare 1 tsp cumin
6. Make ready 1/2 tsp paprika powder
7. Make ready 1 onion
8. Take 3 cloves garlic
9. Prepare Lime juice from 1/2 lemon
10. Prepare Orange juice from 1 orange
11. Get 2 bay leaves
12. Get 150 ml Cola (use cola that contain sugar instead of artificial sweeteners)
13. Make ready Water
14. Make ready 2 Medium tortilla (cut it into 4 small tortilla)

Pork Carnitas are pieces of pork meat slow-cooked in copper cauldrons in an open fire. When it comes to tacos, Pork Carnitas Tacos are the best of the best. When I was in Mexico last year, much research was done to hunt down the BEST carnitas joints that the locals haunt! Carnitas, literally meaning "little meats", is a dish of Mexican cuisine that originated in the state of Michoacán.

Steps to make Pork Carnitas:

1. Clean the pork, and place it in the cooking pot
2. Mix black pepper, salt, oregano, cumin, and paprika powder in a small bowl, and use the mixture to season the pork
3. Add garlic and onion
4. Squeeze in 1/2 lemon
5. Add orange juice, cola, some water, and bay leaves
6. Mix it well
7. Stew it for 2 hours until the pork is tender
8. If the pork have reached its tenderness, place it on a board, shred it using 2 forks
9. Place the pulled pork in a baking sheet, add the remaining sauce from the stew, and mix it well
10. Bake it in the oven for 30 minutes (170 degree Celsius). Flipp it after the First 15 minutes, so both side of pulled pork become crispy
11. Place the tortilla in a plate, add the crispy pulled pork, some garnish on it, and Fold it
12. Pork carnitas is ready to be served
13. For garnish: chopped cherry tomatoes, chopped onion, chopped coriander leaves
14. Here is my YouTube channel link, you can check it there how did I made this recipe: https://youtu.be/Uw1ESzB72zU

Carnitas are made by braising or simmering pork in oil or preferably lard until tender. 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. The BEST Instant Pot Pork Carnitas are easy to make at home with your electric pressure cooker. A quick pop under the broiler at the end ensures that the carnitas get nice and crispy!

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