Super Easy Carnitas. This Easy Carnitas Recipe makes the BEST carnitas: rich, tender shredded pork with crispy, crunchy edges, perfect for tacos, burritos, or just eating by the forkful. Seasoned with oregano, cumin, chili powder, lime juice, these Mexican Slow Cooker Pork Carnitas Tacos are the perfect dinner for any night of the week. You don't need to go out to get your street style taco fix.
Broiling them just before serving gives a browned, crispy crust to the meat. Jump To Recipe • Print Recipe. This Instant Pot Crispy Carnitas recipe is so delicious, and extra-easy when made in the pressure cooker! You can have Super Easy Carnitas using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Super Easy Carnitas
- You need 1 lb of beef roast or pork roast.
- Prepare 3 clove of garlic, crushed.
- Prepare 1 of onion, chopped.
- You need 1 large of carrot, peeled and chopped.
- It's 2 large of tomatos, seeded.
- Prepare 2 of chopped peppers, jalepeno serrano.. your choice.
- Prepare 3 tbsp of chili powder.
- It's 3 tsp of salt.
- It's 1 tbsp of cumin.
- It's 1 1/2 tsp of dried oregano.
- Prepare 1 1/2 tsp of coarse ground pepper.
- You need 1 of beef stock.
Perfect for tacos, burritos, salads, and more. These slow cooker carnitas are super easy to make and taste great in tacos, nachos, enchiladas or burritos! So tender and full of flavor. There's no better way to cook pork than in the crockpot.
Super Easy Carnitas step by step
- add all ingredients to a large stock pot, use enough stock to cover the meat.
- bring to boil, then simmer 2 hours until beef falls apart.
- remove the beef and shred with a fork.
- drizzle shredded beef with stock juices until desired moistness achieved, salt and pepper to taste.
- * remaining stock juices can be frozen for future use as soup base.
First, carnitas are heavily seasoned but not flavored. Seasoning is basically salt but flavors mainly come from condiments. I changed out the lard for water lowering the fat content and added orange. These pork carnitas would take all day in my crockpot. Super easy and not something I would have guessed I was capable of making!