Pork Carnitas

Cooking Instructions
- 1
Rinse and pat dry pork butt.
- 2
Preheat oven to 350.
- 3
Rub dry meat with olive oil, sprinkling on the oregano, cumin, salt and pepper.
- 4
Add to roasting pan with the rough chopped onion, garlic, jalapeno, and green chilies. Salt and pepper liberally.
- 5
Roll orange on hard surface to create maximum juice-age, squeeze juice over everything in the roastin pan, also adding in the peels after they've been juiced.
- 6
Cover and cook for roughly 3-4 hours or until the meat is falling apart.
- 7
About 3 hours in, when its "getting there" add drained can of corn to the pan, recover and finish the cooking process.
- 8
When it has reached the right tenderness, remove from the oven, bump up the temp to 450.
- 9
Drain juice/fat from roasting pan, set aside for later use.
- 10
After the meat has had a minute to sit and cool a bit, "pull" the meat apart, be careful to still leave chunks, you don't want this to be pulled pork, unless thats what you're going for, in that case, go for it.
- 11
Once its all pulled and seperated, return to the oven to crisp the top/edges, it adds awesome texture and it looks nice. (15 minutes or so)
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