Carnitas Recipes
Pork shoulder cooked low and slow — Slow Cooker Carnitas, Copycat Chipotle Carnitas, Carnitas Tacos, Crispy Carnitas Tacos — for taco night any weeknight.
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dinnerSlow Cooker Carnitas!
My take on delicious carnitas! 😋
Jackie SilerIngredients
- 4-6lbs Pork roast
- 2 tsp Ground Cumin
- 1 tsp Dried oregano
- 3/4 tsp Salt
- 1-2 tbsp Minced garlic
- 1/2 tsp Black pepper
- 1/2 can Chiles in adobo sauce
- 1 large Onion
- 3 tbsp Lime juice
- Approx 20 oz Beef stock
- 1 package Corn tortillas
- 1 bundle Cilantro
Instructions
- 1Trim extra fat off of roast, put roast in crock pot and add all ingredients to crock pot! Topping with the beef broth until about 1/2 way submerged.
- 2Allow to cook ON LOW for about 6-8 hours, the longer it cooks, the easier it will fall off the bone and shred.
- 3Once off the bone and shredded, put into a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, oven on LOW BROIL, pour juice from crock pot over shredded meat and broil just until some of the meat looks like it’s getting a little crispy. Grab your favorite tortillas and toppings, assemble and enjoy! 😋
- 4We used the cilantro to garnish! For toppings we used sour cream, diced onion, shredded cheese, lettuce and the extra juice to dip in! Absolutely delicious!
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Open in Pepper →One Pork Shoulder Feeds The Whole Week
A pork shoulder is cheap, forgiving, and hard to ruin. You rub it with cumin and oregano, let it go all afternoon, and end up with a pan of meat that shreds with a fork and crisps up under the broiler.
Cooks on Pepper reach for this collection when they want dinner handled early — meat in the slow cooker before work, tacos on the table at six, and enough left over for bowls and quesadillas the next two nights.
Every recipe here starts with pork and ends up in a tortilla: Slow Cooker Carnitas, Copycat Chipotle Carnitas, Authentic Carnitas done in 2-inch chunks, Pork Carnitas with orange juice and jalapeño, Crispy Carnitas Tacos, and an Easy Crock Pot Carnitas Burrito Bowl.
Quick Tips
- 1
Cut into big chunks
Two-inch pieces of pork shoulder cook evenly in about 8 hours on low and still shred easily. Whole roasts work too, they just need closer to 10.
- 2
Keep the fat on
Leave at least a quarter inch of fat cap on the shoulder. It renders down and keeps the meat from drying out during the long cook.
- 3
Crisp it under the broiler
Spread shredded pork on a sheet pan, spoon over a little cooking liquid, and broil 5 to 8 minutes until the edges brown.
- 4
Add citrus to the pot
A cup of orange juice plus the juice of 2 limes softens the pork and balances the cumin and chili powder.
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