Carnitas

Name: Carnitas
Total time: 10800 s
Yield: 3 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 laurel leaves; 2 lbs carnitas pork meat; half an onion; half an orange (juice only); 1 cup beef broth; as needed oil; 1 tsp oregano; 1 tsp marjoram; 1 tsp sal; 1/2 tsp black pepper; 1/2 tsp garlic powder

Melissa Zepeda @cook_3619903

South Texas

Here in south texas, we love carnitas. There so good and i just have to share this mexican dish with you all. These are made different ways, in a disco, or bbq pit. I made them in the oven, hope you can try them soon.

Melissa Zepeda @cook_3619903

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Ingredients

180 mins

3 servings

2laurel leaves
2 lbscarnitas pork meat
halfan onion
halfan orange (juice only)
1 cupbeef broth
as neededoil
1 tsporegano
1 tspmarjoram
1 tspsal
1/2 tspblack pepper
1/2 tspgarlic powder

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Steps

180 mins

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Step one: rub oil all over pork meat. Then, Mix your dry spices and rub them on the pork meat. Once seasoned, mix orange juice and beef broth together and pour around the the pork meat in a oven dish/pot. Place your onion wedges and leafs around dish/pot. Just like shown in picture.
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Step two: this dish may take 2-3 hours depending on your oven. Mine took 2 hours. So pre-heat your oven at 350 f. Bake for 2 hours, check on it. Onced it done, re-bake back in oven uncovered for 15 mins so it can get a crisp on top. Then turn on a skillet medium low heat, add dripping of grease from your pan where you baked carnitas. And pour your carnitas in there. At this point what youre doing is frying them a bit. 5-10 mins tops om frying. Once done you can shred or leave them in chunks. Serve with a green salsa, salt, onion chopped and corn tortillas tacos. And enjoy.