Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, carnitas. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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Carnitas is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Carnitas is something that I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook carnitas using 11 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Carnitas:
- Prepare 2 laurel leaves
- Prepare 2 lbs carnitas pork meat
- Prepare half an onion
- Take half an orange (juice only)
- Get 1 cup beef broth
- Take as needed oil
- Make ready 1 tsp oregano
- Make ready 1 tsp marjoram
- Prepare 1 tsp sal
- Get 1/2 tsp black pepper
- Make ready 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.
Instructions 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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