Step-by-Step Guide to Make Homemade Tacos Carnitas

Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, tacos carnitas. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Tacos Carnitas is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Tacos Carnitas is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have tacos carnitas using 14 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Tacos Carnitas:

1. Get 4-5 lbs pork butt or shoulder
2. Make ready 3 tsp salt
3. Take 1 tsp black pepper
4. Make ready 1 tbsp dried oregano
5. Get 1 tbsp ground cumin
6. Make ready 1 tbsp garlic powder (or 8 gloves smashed)
7. Prepare 2 tbsp lime juice (or two limes juiced)
8. Get 1 large white onion cut into circles about half a pinkies width
9. Take 1/2 cup orange juice
10. Make ready 3/4 cup coke
11. Prepare Toppings of Carnitas/tortilla
12. Prepare 2 stalks cilantro cut up finely
13. Make ready 1 large white onion diced
14. Prepare White or yellow corn tortillas

Steps to make Tacos Carnitas:

1. In slower cooker add pork (it may help if you cut it into 6 or so big chunks
2. Add the salt, pepper, oregano, cumin, garlic, onions, lime juice, orange juice, and coke into slow cooker
3. Cover on high heat for 6-8 hours - (Until meat falls apart)
4. Remove pork and shred with two forks. (Do not discard the juice)
5. (Optional) transfer the pulled pork to a baking sheet LINED WITH FOIL. Use a bbq spread brush spread some of the juice from crock pot over the meat. Put on broil till a desired Crispyness. THEN Put meat back into slow cooker to sit in the juices and be served from the pot.
6. On a frying pan on medium heat put on corn tortillas.
7. They should not quite be browned but right before that. Make sure you flip and do both sides. (Should be served soft and warm)
8. Assemble tacos with the meat, some of the diced white onion, and sprinkle on some cilantro
9. I love the Herdez mild guacamole salsa on top too! Also if you have a few fresh limes cut into wedges to squeeze on top! That’s the best!

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