Steps to Prepare Homemade Carnitas

Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, carnitas. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Carnitas is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look fantastic. Carnitas is something that I have loved my whole life.

Carnitas, literally meaning "little meats", is a dish of Mexican cuisine that originated in the state of Michoacán. Carnitas are made by braising or simmering pork in oil or preferably lard until tender. The process takes three to four hours, and the result is very tender and juicy meat. Nothing beats tender golden brown Carnitas right from the large disco.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook carnitas using 14 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Carnitas:

1. Get 1 pork shoulder without the bone
2. Make ready 26 oz pork lard or vegetable if you can't find the pork one
3. Make ready 4 pork ears
4. Make ready 1/2 cup light beer your choice
5. Make ready 1/2 cup evaporated milk about (6oz)
6. Make ready 2 oranges cut in half
7. Make ready 1 stick cinnamon
8. Get 4 Bay leaves
9. Take 4 clove garlic
10. Prepare 1 pinch Oregano
11. Make ready 1 pinch thyme
12. Get 1 tbsp salt
13. Prepare 1/4 piece of onion
14. Prepare 1 cup water

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Instructions to make Carnitas:

1. cut the shoulder into medium size squares
2. with the stove off,in a deep pot add the lard and cup of water, the lard has to be cold so it doesn't jump on you, then turn on the stove and let this boil.
3. the water is to prevent the lard from frying the meat. Once is boiling add the pork, squeeze in the juice of the oranges and leave the peels in the pot, keep the tempeture on medium.
4. Let this cook for 30 min you don't have to cover the pot. stir once in a while to prevent the meat from sticking on the bottom
5. add the ears and move the meat around to make sure everything fits in the pot and let it boil for 30 min.
6. add onion, garlic, cinnamon, Bay leaves, Oregano, milk, beer and salt. and let it cook for 1 hour.
7. by now the meat should be ready. take all the meat out and only the meat not the juice on a colander to drain extra juice.
8. Now if you let the juice seat until is cold you can scoop the lard from the top and reuse it or just discard this is up to you I will use.
9. Chop the meat and now you can eat it on tacos or serve in a plate with a side of rice and refried beans.
10. To top the tacos you need to chop onion, cilantro, add some lime and salsa.

The Mexican answer to American pulled pork, at their best they should be moist, juicy, and ultra-porky with. 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. Slow-cooker and Instant Pot carnitas variations. Pork carnitas—Mexican braised and fried pork chunks with their addictively crisp edges—were unfamiliar to me until I tried this recipe. Carnitas tacos are made with crispy and juicy carnitas, red onion, cilantro and toppings!

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