Simple Way to Make Ultimate Authentic Mexican Carnitas

Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, authentic mexican carnitas. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Authentic Mexican Carnitas is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Authentic Mexican Carnitas is something that I have loved my entire life.

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. This is like the Mexican version of pulled pork that you crisp in the oven.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook authentic mexican carnitas using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Authentic Mexican Carnitas:

1. Prepare 355 ml bottled Mexican Coca-Cola. Note: American Coca-Cola will
2. Prepare 6 lb bone in pork shoulder or pork butt sliced into 4inch slices
3. Take 1 sliced up orange with peel
4. Make ready 2 cinnamon sticks
5. Get 2 1/2 lb Manteca "lard"
6. Get 1 cup water
7. Take 4 dry bay leaves
8. Take 1/2 can (7 ounces) sweetend condensed milk
9. Take 1 1/2 tbsp sea salt
10. Take 4 whole fresh cloves of garlic

However, I was low on time so I was searching the. 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.

Steps to make Authentic Mexican Carnitas:

1. On your stove top range, bring temperature of lard to 375°F in a large cooking pot or dutch oven.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Carefully remove carnitas and place on paper towel. Then carefully cut carnitas into 2 inch cubes.
7. In a large skillet over medium heat, fry carnitas frequently turning until crispy to your liking.
8. Enjoy with warm tortillas, avocado, cilantro, etc…

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, literally meaning "little meats", is a dish of Mexican cuisine that originated in the state of Michoacán. Carnitas are made by braising or simmering pork in oil or preferably lard until tender. The process takes three to four hours, and the result is very tender and juicy meat.

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