Tacos Carnitas.
Hello everybody, I hope you're having an incredible day today. Today, I'm gonna show you how to make a special dish, tacos carnitas. One of my favorites. For mine, I'm gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Tacos Carnitas is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it's fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Tacos Carnitas is something which I have loved my whole life. They're nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have tacos carnitas using 14 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Tacos Carnitas:
- {Take 4-5 lbs of pork butt or shoulder.
- {Take 3 tsp of salt.
- {Prepare 1 tsp of black pepper.
- {Get 1 tbsp of dried oregano.
- {Take 1 tbsp of ground cumin.
- {Make ready 1 tbsp of garlic powder (or 8 gloves smashed).
- {Get 2 tbsp of lime juice (or two limes juiced).
- {Prepare 1 of large white onion cut into circles about half a pinkies width.
- {Take 1/2 cup of orange juice.
- {Make ready 3/4 cup of coke.
- {Take of Toppings of Carnitas/tortilla.
- {Get 2 stalks of cilantro cut up finely.
- {Make ready 1 of large white onion diced.
- {Make ready of White or yellow corn tortillas.
Steps to make Tacos Carnitas:
- In slower cooker add pork (it may help if you cut it into 6 or so big chunks.
- Add the salt, pepper, oregano, cumin, garlic, onions, lime juice, orange juice, and coke into slow cooker.
- Cover on high heat for 6-8 hours (Until meat falls apart).
- Remove pork and shred with two forks. (Do not discard the juice).
- (Optional) transfer the pulled pork to a baking sheet LINED WITH FOIL. Use a bbq spread brush spread some of the juice from crock pot over the meat. Put on broil till a desired Crispyness. THEN Put meat back into slow cooker to sit in the juices and be served from the pot..
- On a frying pan on medium heat put on corn tortillas..
- They should not quite be browned but right before that. Make sure you flip and do both sides. (Should be served soft and warm).
- Assemble tacos with the meat, some of the diced white onion, and sprinkle on some cilantro.
- I love the Herdez mild guacamole salsa on top too! Also if you have a few fresh limes cut into wedges to squeeze on top! That’s the best!.
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