Carnitas
From quaziefly 14 years ago
- 300 minutes to make
- Serves 5
Sent to me by my uncle. He says that it is authentic Mexican . We made it and was very impressive.
Ingredients
- 1 – 4 to 5 pound Lean boneless pork loin roast, with excess fat removed shopping list
- 1 cup salsa verde shopping list
- 1 Large onion, minced shopping list
- 4 cloves garlic, minced shopping list
- 1 tbsp seasoned salt shopping list
- 2 tsp pepper shopping list
How to make it
- Place pork roast in 9 x 14 pan.
- Rub garlic into the roast.
- Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
- Cover with salsa verde and onions.
- Loosely cover the pan with aluminum foil.
- Bake at 300 degrees for four and a half hours, or until fork tender.
- Remove roast from oven. Cool until you can touch the meat comfortably.
- Remove from pan and place on cutting board.
- Skim fat off pan juices.
- Using two forks, shred the pork.
- Remove fat from meat. When all meat is shredded, return it to the pan and mix the pan juices thoroughly into the pork.
- Return to oven.
- Cook, uncovered for 30 minutes or until pork is crispy on top. Remove from oven.
- Turn pork.
- Return to oven and cook another 20 minutes, until pork is crispy on top and there is almost no liquid left in the pan.
- Can be eaten by itself or with tortillas, guacamole and salsa
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This sounds delicious!
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Wow! what a great recipe....will surely give this one a try. Thanks
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