Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, super tender carnitas. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
HELLO and welcome back to my channel today we are making Instant Pot Super Tender Pork Carnitas. they were a hit at my party! if you would like to help. An Authentic Pork Carnitas Recipe that is completely addictive! First it cooks slowly in a crock pot, on the stove, or in your slow cooker before you put it into the oven to become crispy and caramelized.
Super Tender Carnitas is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Super Tender Carnitas is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have super tender carnitas using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Super Tender Carnitas:
- Get 3.5 pounds pork shoulder, cut into 1.5"chunks
- Prepare 2 teaspoons salt to start
- Get 1 onion, peeled and sliced into 1/2" strips
- Get 6 cloves garlic, peeled and smashed
- Make ready optional: 1 teaspoon cumin, 1 Tablespoon dried oregano
- Make ready 1 large orange
- Take 1 large lime
- Make ready 2 bay leaves
- Prepare 1.5 cups water
- Take 1 Tablespoon distilled white or apple cider vinegar (makes it extra tender)
These juicy Instant Pot carnitas flavored with citrus juice and simple seasonings have the best These easy pork Instant Pot carnitas might be best recipe we've ever made! Ok, that's a bold statement, but. Venison chunks are given the braising treatment for several hours to intensify flavor, then pan seared until the edges are crisp. Fork-tender yet crispy carnitas are a traditional dish from Michoacán, Mexico.
Steps to make Super Tender Carnitas:
- Cut your pork into roughly 1.5" chunks and season with the salt. Then, in a large pot preheated to medium high with about a teaspoon of oil, sear on two sides in 2 or 3 equal batches for about 3 minutes per side, until they have a good brown crust on them.
- Throw all the seared carnitas back into the pot and add onion, garlic, bay leaves (and optional cumin and oregano) into the pot and mix, letting the onions saute until they start to turn translucent. (A minute or two.)
- Squeeze all the juice from the orange and lime into the pot then add the water and vinegar.
- Bring to a boil, covered, for a minute or so. Once it's been boiling for a minute, turn the heat down to medium low and simmer, completely covered, for 45 to 60 minutes, stirring occasionally. (Maybe every 15 minutes or so.) - - Check the seasoning at this point - you might like more salt or a little more acid from the citrus. - - Then simmer for another 15 minutes with the lid askew.
- Your carnitas should be moist, delicious, and fork tender by this point. Enjoy!
Some people like them crunchy, others like them tender and moist. Like many things in life, I want the best of both. This Authentic Carnitas Recipe is the real deal and yields perfectly tender and crispy carnitas for Seriously though, the first bite of these authentic carnitas made me question everything I thought I. These pork carnitas would take all day in my crockpot. But these Instant Pot carnitas cook in only Super easy and not something I would have guessed I was capable of making!
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