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Carnitas Recipe
Carnitas is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Carnitas is something which I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have carnitas using 14 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Carnitas:
- Make ready 1 whole Boston Butt or Picnic Roast; bone-in or out
- Make ready Cooking Liquid
- Prepare 1 small can of evaporated milk
- Make ready 1 whole orange
- Get 2 whole lemons
- Get 2 whole limes
- Prepare 1 medium/large yellow onion- cut large chunks
- Make ready 1 green bell pepper- seeded & cut large chunks
- Get 8 clove garlic sliced thin
- Make ready 2 cinnamon stick
- Get 2-3 bay leaves
- Get Rub
- Get 1 TBS each dried basil, oregano, cumin, chilli powder
- Make ready 1 TBS each salt, black pepper, garlic powder
Instructions to make Carnitas:
- Pull meat out of fridge 30-60 minutes prior to cooking to warm it to room temp. Can be done while prepping all other ingredients. Not required. Have slow cooker all set up and the insert not in the cooker. I use a crockpot bag alot for easier cleanup.
- Mix together all the in ingredients for the rub and have on a large plate or baking sheet. Set aside.
- Now for the cooking liquid. Juice your lemons, limes and orange. Put peels in the crockpot with the onion, peppers, garlic, cinnamon and bay leaves.
- After removing from package and drying with paper towel cover entire chunk of with with the rub.
- I a large skillet heated to medium-high heat brown your on all sides.
- Now put the in the crockpot. You can deglaze the skillet and put all that good stuff in the crockpot also. Add the evaporated milk and fruit juices to crockpot as well.
- Now put the lid on on put it in the cooker. Cook on low heat 6-8 hours or high for 3-4 hours.
- After cooking, take meat out of crockpot in a large baking dish. Shred the using 2 forks or tongs. Then strain your cooking juice and save for crisping the shredded , reheating or even use it for your next Carnitas batch-but be sure to freeze it!
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