Recipe of Any-night-of-the-week Crockpot Carnitas

Crockpot Carnitas
Crockpot Carnitas

Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, crockpot carnitas. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Crockpot Carnitas is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Crockpot Carnitas is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook crockpot carnitas using 10 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Crockpot Carnitas:
  1. Get 3 lbs pork (butt or shoulder) cut into one inch pieces
  2. Prepare 1 sweet onion, diced
  3. Make ready 3-4 cloves garlic
  4. Take 2 cinnamon sticks
  5. Prepare 1/2 T cumin
  6. Prepare 1/2 T oregano
  7. Get 1/2 t chipotle chili powder
  8. Take 1/2 t salt
  9. Get 1/4 t pepper
  10. Get 1 large orange (zest and juice)
Steps to make Crockpot Carnitas:
  1. Place diced onion, garlic and cinnamon sticks in bottom of slow cooker.
  2. Mix oregano, cumin, salt, chipotle powder, and pepper in a small bowl.
  3. Pour powder mixture over cubes pork and stir to coat all pieces evenly.
  4. Dump pork over top of onions in crock pot.
  5. Zest some of the orange over top of pork.
  6. Cook on low for 6-8 hours.
  7. Remove cinnamon sticks, squeeze orange juice over pork and stir.
  8. Serve alone, as a burrito or taco filling, over rice, etc.
  9. (If you want it a little crispier, you can spread meat out on a jelly roll pan and broil for a few min.)

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