Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, carnitas. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Carnitas is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Carnitas is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
Find Great Deals from the Top Retailers. This carnitas recipe, however, has a great, distinctive flavour and is requested by friends and family over and over. Serve with warm tortillas and salsa. Pulled pork with a Mexican twist, these carnitas are crisped up with soft brown sugar for extra deliciousness!
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have carnitas using 11 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Carnitas:
- Make ready 2 laurel leaves
- Take 2 lbs carnitas pork meat
- Make ready half an onion
- Make ready half an orange (juice only)
- Get 1 cup beef broth
- Prepare as needed oil
- Make ready 1 tsp oregano
- Take 1 tsp marjoram
- Get 1 tsp sal
- Make ready 1/2 tsp black pepper
- Prepare 1/2 tsp garlic powder
Serve with warm, fresh tortillas and salsa. Carnitas can be made various ways. Some cooks add a teaspoon or so of Mexican dried oregano. To change things up, I often use beer in place of a portion of the water.
Steps to make Carnitas:
- Step one: rub oil all over pork meat. Then, Mix your dry spices and rub them on the pork meat. Once seasoned, mix orange juice and beef broth together and pour around the the pork meat in a oven dish/pot. Place your onion wedges and leafs around dish/pot. Just like shown in picture.
- Step two: this dish may take 2-3 hours depending on your oven. Mine took 2 hours. So pre-heat your oven at 350 f. Bake for 2 hours, check on it. Onced it done, re-bake back in oven uncovered for 15 mins so it can get a crisp on top. Then turn on a skillet medium low heat, add dripping of grease from your pan where you baked carnitas. And pour your carnitas in there. At this point what youre doing is frying them a bit. 5-10 mins tops om frying. Once done you can shred or leave them in chunks. Serve with a green salsa, salt, onion chopped and corn tortillas tacos. And enjoy.
Some cooks add a teaspoon or so of Mexican dried oregano. To change things up, I often use beer in place of a portion of the water. Other cooks use orange juice.or even soda. It's basically crispy, savory chunks of tender pork. They are particularly great for filling tacos and burritos.
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