Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, carnitas. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Carnitas is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Carnitas is something that I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have carnitas using 14 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Carnitas:

1. Prepare 1 whole Boston Pork Butt or Picnic Roast; bone-in or out
2. Get Cooking Liquid
3. Get 1 small can of evaporated milk
4. Make ready 1 whole orange
5. Prepare 2 whole lemons
6. Make ready 2 whole limes
7. Take 1 medium/large yellow onion- cut large chunks
8. Get 1 green bell pepper- seeded & cut large chunks
9. Get 8 clove garlic sliced thin
10. Get 2 cinnamon stick
11. Take 2-3 bay leaves
12. Make ready Rub
13. Get 1 TBS each dried basil, oregano, cumin, chilli powder
14. Take 1 TBS each salt, black pepper, garlic powder

Instructions to make Carnitas:

1. Pull meat out of fridge 30-60 minutes prior to cooking to warm it to room temp. Can be done while prepping all other ingredients. Not required. Have slow cooker all set up and the insert not in the cooker. I use a crockpot bag alot for easier cleanup.
2. Mix together all the in ingredients for the rub and have on a large plate or baking sheet. Set aside.
3. Now for the cooking liquid. Juice your lemons, limes and orange. Put peels in the crockpot with the onion, peppers, garlic, cinnamon and bay leaves.
4. After removing pork from package and drying with paper towel cover entire chunk of pork with with the rub.
5. I a large skillet heated to medium-high heat brown your pork on all sides.
6. Now put the pork in the crockpot. You can deglaze the skillet and put all that good stuff in the crockpot also. Add the evaporated milk and fruit juices to crockpot as well.
7. Now put the lid on on put it in the cooker. Cook on low heat 6-8 hours or high for 3-4 hours.
8. After cooking, take meat out of crockpot in a large baking dish. Shred the pork using 2 forks or tongs. Then strain your cooking juice and save for crisping the shredded pork, reheating or even use it for your next Carnitas batch-but be sure to freeze it!

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