This recipe DEFINES Savory! It melts in your mouth. Let the Dutch Oven do the work for YOU!
I could eat tacos Every day BUT to me….Carnitas stand on their own at the TOP!
This is an easy to follow NO FAIL recipe!
Grab your favorite cerveza and Enjoy!
Pork Carnitas
By Published: July 22, 2018
- Yield: 4-5 Servings
- Prep: 20 mins
- Cook: 2 hrs 0 min
- Ready In: 2 hrs 20 mins
Mouth watering NO FAIL Carnitas IN your Dutch Oven
Ingredients
- 3 LBS Pork Butt or Pork Shoulder Do NOT trim the Fat and be sure to cut your pieces into equal size bites
- 8-10 yellow corn tortillas I grill mine
- 4-5 cloves fresh garlic chopped
- 1 small bunch fresh cilantro
- 6-8 cherry tomatoes cut in half
- 1/2 small serrano slided or chopped
- 2 Bay Leaves
- Coarse Salt to taste
- Coarse Black Pepper to taste
- 3 TBSP Vegetable Oil
- 1 tsp Cuman
- 1 tsp Paprika
- 1 tsp chili powder
Instructions
- Preheat Oven to 300* and place rack in the lower position
- Cut the pork into equal size pieces leaving ALL of the fat and add it to your dutch oven
- Heat Oil in your Dutch Oven and toss in onion halves and get a nice char
- (Squeeze orange and limes and add remaining parts to the pot)
throw in your garlic, bay leaves and the rest of your orange and lime
- Add in the liquids next
water and Cerveza!
- Bring everything to a boil and cover the dutch oven with the lid.
- Place dutch oven in the preheated oven and cook for 2 hours until meat is fall apart tender.
- Line a cookie sheet with foil--I recommend DOUBLE lining it.
- Remove dutch oven from the oven and at this point, using a slotted spoon, remove the meat from the juice and place on a foil lined cookie sheet. I also added my onions to the cookie sheet as well.
- Turn the oven to BROIL and place meat in there and cook approximately 8-10 mins and then turn over and cook for another 5 minutes or so.
- Sift out all of the BITS from your juice and place back on the burner and bring to a boil
- You want to reduce your sauce by at least half. It will thicken more as it cools.
- Remove the meat from the oven and shred with a fork and then place it back in the juice
- Chop onion, tomatoes, cilantro and serrano and get ready to make some tacos
- Heat up or GRILL your tortillas
- Don't forget to top off with your homemade salsa as well!
