Step-by-Step Guide to Make Homemade Slow Cooker Chicken Carnitas

Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, slow cooker chicken carnitas. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

And a few weeks ago, I decided to make them my new thing. Chicken can be made into some seriously good carnitas! The other good news about this recipe? Just toss all of your ingredients in a slow cooker.

Slow Cooker Chicken Carnitas is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Slow Cooker Chicken Carnitas is something that I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook slow cooker chicken carnitas using 27 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Slow Cooker Chicken Carnitas:

1. Take 3 lbs boneless, skinless chicken breasts
2. Make ready 1 navel orange (halved. One half reserved one half sliced)
3. Make ready 1/3 cup apple juice
4. Get to taste Cumin
5. Take to taste Garlic powder
6. Get to taste Salt
7. Get to taste Pepper
8. Prepare 3 bay leaves
9. Get 4 tbsp olive oil (divided)
10. Prepare 3 lbs boneless, skinless chicken breasts
11. Make ready 1 navel orange (halved. One half reserved one half sliced)
12. Prepare 1/3 cup apple juice
13. Prepare to taste Cumin
14. Prepare to taste Garlic powder
15. Get to taste Salt
16. Take to taste Pepper
17. Prepare 3 bay leaves
18. Make ready 4 tbsp olive oil (divided)
19. Make ready 3 lbs boneless, skinless chicken breasts
20. Make ready 1 navel orange (halved. One half reserved one half sliced)
21. Prepare 1/3 cup apple juice
22. Take to taste Cumin
23. Prepare to taste Garlic powder
24. Get to taste Salt
25. Prepare to taste Pepper
26. Make ready 3 bay leaves
27. Take 4 tbsp olive oil (divided)

Slow Cooker Chicken Carnitas is a fresh and delicious take on the classic carnitas made with pork. Slow cooked in lime and orange juice, adobo sauce with chipotle peppers, onions, and spices. Then broiled to aid in drop dead delicious and slightly crispy bits. Slow Cooker Pork Carnitas recipe video!

Instructions to make Slow Cooker Chicken Carnitas:

1. Pour apple juice into slow cooker and place chicken breasts.
2. Season chicken with cumin, garlic powder, salt, and pepper. Place sliced oranges on top. Squeeze remaining orange over chicken.
3. Cover and cook on high for 3 hours. After 3 hours, remove chicken and remove bay leaves and orange slices. Shred and return to cooker mixing with juices. Cook on high another hour.
4. Set broiler to high. Place chicken on baking sheet and drizzle with 2 tbsp olive oil. Broil for 5 minutes.
5. Remove and drizzle with remaining 2 tbsp olive oil and broil another 5 minutes.
6. Remove and serve on flour or corn tortillas with your favorite fixings. Enjoy!
7. Cover and cook on high for 3 hours. After 3 hours, remove chicken and shred and return to cooker mixing with juices. Cook on high another hour.

Then broiled to aid in drop dead delicious and slightly crispy bits. Slow Cooker Pork Carnitas recipe video! Is that a pressure cooker in the video?? My slow cooker (Breville Fast-Slow Cooker) is like an Instant Pot. It's multi-functional, a pressure cooker and slow cooker in one.

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