Carnitas My Way
From latinfoodie 14 years ago
- 23 minutes to make
- Serves 6
Carnitas are one of my favorite things to eat ever, and im always tweeking the traditional and not so traditional ways of making them, and this is one way I do it.
Ingredients
- 4lb pork butt shopping list
- 2 cups of orange juice shopping list
- 3 diced garlic cloves shopping list
- 1/2 tsp oregano shopping list
- bay leaf shopping list
- peppercorns shopping list
- 1/2 cup of water shopping list
- Lard-"manteca" shopping list
- salt shopping list
How to make it
- Cut the pork butt into 3 or four large pieces. In a bowl add orange juice a splash of water, and add diced garlic, bay leaf, peppercorns, oregano. Stab pork meat all over withk nife or bbq fork. Then add to bowl with orange juice mixture. Let marinade at least a couple hours..
- Remove pork from mixture. place on paper towels so they arent soaking wet, but dont pat dry. Season well with salt. In a large deep saucepan, add lard until its about 1 inch high melted. IMPORTANT--- keep heat on medium low, but more towards low.( It needs to cook low and slow). Slowly add pork pieces. Cover and let simmer in fat. Every 30-40 mins turn meat so it doesnt burn on one side. It is done when all sides are nicely medium carmalized color. About 2 hours or more. Remove from heat and chop meat with butcher knife. serve as tacos on top of corn tortillas, with chile, lemon, and cilantro. or burritos! how ever u like!
The Rating
Reviewed by 4 people-
I the flavors are just right in this recipe. Good for you, for making it your own.
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Nice touch. Hope it doesn't ruin the taste but think I'll use olive oil instead of manteca. I really like the idea of the orange juice. This could marinate over night in the fridge. Great post. Thanks. RJ
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