How to Make Ultimate Slow Cooker Chicken Carnitas

Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, slow cooker chicken carnitas. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

And a few weeks ago, I decided to make them my new thing. Chicken can be made into some seriously good carnitas! The other good news about this recipe? Just toss all of your ingredients in a slow cooker.

Slow Cooker Chicken Carnitas is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Slow Cooker Chicken Carnitas is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have slow cooker chicken carnitas using 27 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Slow Cooker Chicken Carnitas:

1. Get 3 lbs boneless, skinless chicken breasts
2. Get 1 navel orange (halved. One half reserved one half sliced)
3. Prepare 1/3 cup apple juice
4. Get to taste Cumin
5. Take to taste Garlic powder
6. Make ready to taste Salt
7. Get to taste Pepper
8. Take 3 bay leaves
9. Get 4 tbsp olive oil (divided)
10. Prepare 3 lbs boneless, skinless chicken breasts
11. Make ready 1 navel orange (halved. One half reserved one half sliced)
12. Take 1/3 cup apple juice
13. Make ready to taste Cumin
14. Prepare to taste Garlic powder
15. Prepare to taste Salt
16. Take to taste Pepper
17. Get 3 bay leaves
18. Get 4 tbsp olive oil (divided)
19. Get 3 lbs boneless, skinless chicken breasts
20. Prepare 1 navel orange (halved. One half reserved one half sliced)
21. Get 1/3 cup apple juice
22. Make ready to taste Cumin
23. Get to taste Garlic powder
24. Make ready to taste Salt
25. Take to taste Pepper
26. Prepare 3 bay leaves
27. Prepare 4 tbsp olive oil (divided)

Slow Cooker Chicken Carnitas is a fresh and delicious take on the classic carnitas made with pork. Slow cooked in lime and orange juice, adobo sauce with chipotle peppers, onions, and spices. Then broiled to aid in drop dead delicious and slightly crispy bits. Slow Cooker Pork Carnitas recipe video!

Steps to make Slow Cooker Chicken Carnitas:

1. Pour apple juice into slow cooker and place chicken breasts.
2. Season chicken with cumin, garlic powder, salt, and pepper. Place sliced oranges on top. Squeeze remaining orange over chicken.
3. Cover and cook on high for 3 hours. After 3 hours, remove chicken and remove bay leaves and orange slices. Shred and return to cooker mixing with juices. Cook on high another hour.
4. Set broiler to high. Place chicken on baking sheet and drizzle with 2 tbsp olive oil. Broil for 5 minutes.
5. Remove and drizzle with remaining 2 tbsp olive oil and broil another 5 minutes.
6. Remove and serve on flour or corn tortillas with your favorite fixings. Enjoy!
7. Cover and cook on high for 3 hours. After 3 hours, remove chicken and shred and return to cooker mixing with juices. Cook on high another hour.

Then broiled to aid in drop dead delicious and slightly crispy bits. Slow Cooker Pork Carnitas recipe video! Is that a pressure cooker in the video?? My slow cooker (Breville Fast-Slow Cooker) is like an Instant Pot. It's multi-functional, a pressure cooker and slow cooker in one.

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