Pork Carnitas
Pork Carnitas

Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a awesome dish, pork carnitas. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Pork Carnitas is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Pork Carnitas is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have pork carnitas using 11 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Pork Carnitas:
  1. Prepare 4 lb pork butt
  2. Get 1 large onion
  3. Get 1 large orange
  4. Get 1 jalapeno
  5. Make ready 1 can diced green chilies
  6. Take 2 tbsp oregano
  7. Get 1 tbsp cumin
  8. Make ready 2 tbsp olive oil
  9. Get 1 salt and pepper
  10. Take 4 clove garlic (crushed or minced)
  11. Get 1 can corn (drained)
Instructions to make Pork Carnitas:
  1. Rinse and pat dry pork butt.
  2. Preheat oven to 350.
  3. Rub dry meat with olive oil, sprinkling on the oregano, cumin, salt and pepper.
  4. Add to roasting pan with the rough chopped onion, garlic, jalapeno, and green chilies. Salt and pepper liberally.
  5. Roll orange on hard surface to create maximum juice-age, squeeze juice over everything in the roastin pan, also adding in the peels after they've been juiced.
  6. Cover and cook for roughly 3-4 hours or until the meat is falling apart.
  7. About 3 hours in, when its "getting there" add drained can of corn to the pan, recover and finish the cooking process.
  8. When it has reached the right tenderness, remove from the oven, bump up the temp to 450.
  9. Drain juice/fat from roasting pan, set aside for later use.
  10. After the meat has had a minute to sit and cool a bit, "pull" the meat apart, be careful to still leave chunks, you don't want this to be pulled pork, unless thats what you're going for, in that case, go for it.
  11. Once its all pulled and seperated, return to the oven to crisp the top/edges, it adds awesome texture and it looks nice. (15 minutes or so)

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