Recipe: Appetizing Pork carnitas

Pork carnitas. Many find carnitas a little dry or flavorless. These have a great, distinctive flavor and are requested by friends and family over and over. Serve with warm, fresh tortillas and salsa.

Or so say all the reviews! Your search for the Best Pork Carnitas Recipe stops here. Pork carnitas is made of pieces of pork meat slow-cooked in copper cauldrons in an open fire. You can cook Pork carnitas using 16 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Pork carnitas

1. You need 1 lb of slow cooked pork shoulder.
2. You need 1 of bell pepper.
3. You need 1 of onion.
4. You need 2 clove of garlic.
5. You need 1 bunch of cilantro.
6. You need 2 of hot peppers, fresh.
7. It's 1 of flour tortillas.
8. You need 1 of salt.
9. It's 1 of pepper.
10. Prepare of optional.
11. It's 1 of Sriracha.
12. It's 1 of Salsa.
13. Prepare 1 of Avocado.
14. It's 1 of Shredded cheese.
15. You need 1 of Jalapeño slices.
16. You need 1 of Sour cream.

Traditionally, you would buy a whole piece of pork and use all the parts in different recipes. These Crispy Pork Carnitas are seriously bursting with flavor yet so simple to make! This is the meat you want for your tacos, burritos, sandwiches, you name it. My all-time favorite Mexican Pork Carnitas recipe…made extra easy in the Crock-Pot!

Pork carnitas instructions

1. Prepare vegetables by thinly slicing the onions, julienning the bell and hot peppers, chopping the cilantro, and either crushing or finely mincing the garlic. 5 minutes..
2. Heat a medium sized skillet to medium high heat. Once heated add ~ 1 tbsp of oil to the pan and then start sautéing the onions and bell peppers for ~ 3-5 minutes.
3. Once the peppers and onions have color on them and the garlic and reduce the heat down to medium and cook for ~1-3 minutes.
4. Add the hot peppers and pork and continue to fry until the pork is slightly crispy, ~ 5-10 minutes.
5. Reduce the heat to low and stir in the cilantro and add salt and pepper and any other seasonings to taste. Keep warm and serve with warm tortillas and any toppings on the side.

This slow cooker carnitas recipe is nice and crispy, totally tender and juicy, full of great flavor, and irresistibly delicious. When it comes to tacos, Pork Carnitas Tacos are the best of the best. When I was in Mexico last year, much research was done to hunt down the BEST carnitas joints that the locals haunt! The BEST Instant Pot Pork Carnitas are easy to make at home with your electric pressure cooker. A quick pop under the broiler at the end ensures that the carnitas get nice and crispy!