Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, authentic mexican carnitas. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
This authentic carnitas recipe creates the most tender Mexican pork you can possibly imagine! The technique, spices and flavor is outstanding. Slow cooker authentic Mexican pork carnitas is what I am making today.
Authentic Mexican Carnitas is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Authentic Mexican Carnitas is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have authentic mexican carnitas using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Authentic Mexican Carnitas:
- Make ready 355 ml bottled Mexican Coca-Cola. Note: American Coca-Cola will
- Take 6 lb bone in pork shoulder or pork butt sliced into 4inch slices
- Make ready 1 sliced up orange with peel
- Prepare 2 cinnamon sticks
- Prepare 2 1/2 lb Manteca "lard"
- Take 1 cup water
- Get 4 dry bay leaves
- Make ready 1/2 can (7 ounces) sweetend condensed milk
- Prepare 1 1/2 tbsp sea salt
- Get 4 whole fresh cloves of garlic
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Steps to make Authentic Mexican Carnitas:
- On your stove top range, bring temperature of lard to 375°F in a large cooking pot or dutch oven.
- Add your slices of pork to the 375°F lard, and allow pork to sear until brown, stirring frequently as to not let the pork stick to the pot.
- Add cinnamon sticks, then add oranges by squeezing juice into cooking pot, and then drop in squeezed oranges peel and all. let cook frequently stirring for half an hour.
- Now it's time to bring down the temperature to 230°F by reducing the heat to medium and adding a cup of water to the boiling lard. don't worry the lard will not boil over or explode. cook until water evaporates, about 30 minutes, you'll know this when the level of lard has reduced due to cooking.
- Add by stirring in the bottle of Mexican Coca-Cola, cloves of garlic, half can (7 ounces) of sweetened condensed milk, dry bay leaves, and sea salt. cook for another hour over medium heat.
- Carefully remove carnitas and place on paper towel. Then carefully cut carnitas into 2 inch cubes.
- In a large skillet over medium heat, fry carnitas frequently turning until crispy to your liking.
- Enjoy with warm tortillas, avocado, cilantro, etc…
Carnitas is a very famous Mexican dish. It does involve a lot of cooking time, so I make it when I have time. Serve with fresh homemade corn tortillas, guacamole, cheese and pico de gallo with cilantro. Carnitas is a traditional Mexican main dish and filling used in tacos and other dishes. Typically made with less expensive cuts of pork, the cooking method employed for carnitas renders the meat soft.
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