Recipe of Any-night-of-the-week Carnitas

Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, carnitas. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Carnitas is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Carnitas is something that I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook carnitas using 14 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Carnitas:

1. Take whole Boston Pork Butt or Picnic Roast; bone-in or out
2. Prepare Cooking Liquid
3. Take small can of evaporated milk
4. Prepare whole orange
5. Make ready whole lemons
6. Take whole limes
7. Get medium/large yellow onion- cut large chunks
8. Make ready green bell pepper- seeded & cut large chunks
9. Get garlic sliced thin
10. Make ready cinnamon stick
11. Make ready bay leaves
12. Prepare Rub
13. Get each dried basil, oregano, cumin, chilli powder
14. Take each salt, black pepper, garlic powder

Steps to make Carnitas:

1. 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.
2. Mix together all the in ingredients for the rub and have on a large plate or baking sheet. Set aside.
3. 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.
4. After removing pork from package and drying with paper towel cover entire chunk of pork with with the rub.
5. I a large skillet heated to medium-high heat brown your pork on all sides.
6. Now put the pork 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.
7. Now put the lid on on put it in the cooker. Cook on low heat 6-8 hours or high for 3-4 hours.
8. After cooking, take meat out of crockpot in a large baking dish. Shred the pork using 2 forks or tongs. Then strain your cooking juice and save for crisping the shredded pork, reheating or even use it for your next Carnitas batch-but be sure to freeze it!

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