How to Make Pork Carnitas

Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, pork carnitas. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Pork Carnitas is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Pork Carnitas is something that I have loved my whole life.

How to Make Pork Carnitas

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook pork carnitas using 11 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

Ingredients

The ingredients needed to make Pork Carnitas:

1. Make ready 4 lb pork butt
2. Prepare 1 large onion
3. Prepare 1 large orange
4. Take 1 jalapeno
5. Get 1 can diced green chilies
6. Prepare 2 tbsp oregano
7. Prepare 1 tbsp cumin
8. Prepare 2 tbsp olive oil
9. Take 1 salt and pepper
10. Make ready 4 clove garlic (crushed or minced)
11. Prepare 1 can corn (drained)

Instructions

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)

As simple as that Steps to Prepare Pork Carnitas

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