Carnitas Delicioso!
Carnitas Delicioso!

Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, carnitas delicioso!. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Carnitas Delicioso! is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Carnitas Delicioso! is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

The pork can be eaten on its own, as a stand-alone protein, but most often is enjoyed in taco form. Tacos de Carnitas are usually served with the traditional toppings of diced white onion, sprigs of fresh cilantro, freshly squeezed lime juice, and of course, salsa. But please don't skip the brine the first time you make these!

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook carnitas delicioso! using 22 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Carnitas Delicioso!:
  1. Get 1 lb. Lard (no substitute!)
  2. Prepare 1 c. Bacon fat
  3. Prepare 3-4 lb. Pork butt, cut into large pieces
  4. Prepare 1 lg. Orange, quartered
  5. Make ready 1 lg. Lemon, quartered
  6. Prepare 2 Limes, quartered
  7. Prepare 1 lg. Onion, peeled & quartered
  8. Prepare 10-12 garlic cloves, peeled
  9. Prepare 12 jalapeño slices (from a jar)
  10. Take Salt
  11. Get Pepper
  12. Get Cumin
  13. Take Garlic powder
  14. Take Flour tortillas
  15. Take Garnish suggestions:
  16. Get Grated sharp cheddar cheese
  17. Take Sour cream
  18. Take Salsa
  19. Make ready Cilantro
  20. Take Diced onions
  21. Get Pineapple tidbits (seriously good!)
  22. Prepare Refried beans

How to Make this Instant Pot Authentic Carnitas Recipe. There are a couple of ways you can make this authentic carnitas recipe, my favorite is in the instant pot. Making carnitas are tender and shredded can be the hardest part about making it at home. This Carnitas Recipe method by Diana Kennedy, requiring only pork, water, and salt, is the simplest and most delicious carnitas recipe I've ever had.

Steps to make Carnitas Delicioso!:
  1. Preheat oven to 250°F. Place lard in large (turkey-size) roasting pan and place in oven to melt. Add bacon fat and set aside.
  2. Prep all your ingredients while the lard is melting. The photo shows the cut sizes. A regular large roasting pan, as shown in this photo, is too small for cooking this dish. Use a larger/deeper turkey roasting pan.
  3. NOTE!! I don't recommend a disposable aluminum turkey pan because lime juice eats a hole through aluminum foil! (I learned this the hard way!)
  4. Place pork pieces (fat side up) in the roasting pan with the lard & bacon fat. Squeeze the citrus pieces over the meat, and place them around the meat pieces, skin side down. (The large piece with fat cap has a wide flat bone running the length of the piece, which is why it's bigger.)
  5. Add the garlic cloves, onion quarters and jalapeño slices to the pan. Sprinkle salt, pepper, garlic powder, and cumin over the meat (to taste; I don't measure them).
  6. Lay a sheet of parchment paper over everything to keep the limes from touching the foil. Then tightly cover the pan with aluminum foil, sealing well all around so steam doesn't escape while cooking.
  7. Bake in 250°F oven for 6-1/2 hours. Turn off oven and allow pan to cool before removing foil.
  8. NOTE: At this point, I usually refrigerate the pork pieces (discard fruit and lard) and finish the recipe the next night when I'm ready to serve it. But you can do it all in one day if you start early.
  9. Char the pork pieces under the broiler. Keep an eye on them, flipping the pieces to get an even char. Takes 10-15 minutes.
  10. Serve with warm flour tortillas, your favorite condiments, and refried beans.

These carnitas are not made in the slow cooker, which is a good thing. Carnitas – which means "little meats" in Spanish – is a Mexican pork dish. An inexpensive, heavily marbled cut of pork, such as boneless Boston butt, pork shoulder or picnic ham, is braised or simmered for several hours with seasonings and lard until it is so tender that is can be shredded. Slow-roast pork butt in this recipe for tender Carnitas from Diners, Drive-ins and Dives on Food Network, and serve it as a base for tacos, tamales and more. Pork carnitas is made of pieces of pork meat slow-cooked in copper cauldrons in an open fire.

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