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Pork Carnitas.

Pork Carnitas You can cook Pork Carnitas using 14 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Pork Carnitas

  1. Prepare 500 gr of pork.
  2. Prepare 1 tsp of black pepper.
  3. You need 1 tsp of salt.
  4. You need 1 tsp of oregano.
  5. Prepare 1 tsp of cumin.
  6. You need 1/2 tsp of paprika powder.
  7. It's 1 of onion.
  8. You need 3 cloves of garlic.
  9. Prepare of Lime juice from 1/2 lemon.
  10. It's of Orange juice from 1 orange.
  11. You need 2 of bay leaves.
  12. Prepare 150 ml of Cola (use cola that contain sugar instead of artificial sweeteners).
  13. Prepare of Water.
  14. It's 2 of Medium tortilla (cut it into 4 small tortilla).

Pork Carnitas step by step

  1. Clean the pork, and place it in the cooking pot.
  2. Mix black pepper, salt, oregano, cumin, and paprika powder in a small bowl, and use the mixture to season the pork.
  3. Add garlic and onion.
  4. Squeeze in 1/2 lemon.
  5. Add orange juice, cola, some water, and bay leaves.
  6. Mix it well.
  7. Stew it for 2 hours until the pork is tender.
  8. If the pork have reached its tenderness, place it on a board, shred it using 2 forks.
  9. Place the pulled pork in a baking sheet, add the remaining sauce from the stew, and mix it well.
  10. Bake it in the oven for 30 minutes (170 degree Celsius). Flipp it after the First 15 minutes, so both side of pulled pork become crispy.
  11. Place the tortilla in a plate, add the crispy pulled pork, some garnish on it, and Fold it.
  12. Pork carnitas is ready to be served.
  13. For garnish: chopped cherry tomatoes, chopped onion, chopped coriander leaves.
  14. Here is my YouTube channel link, you can check it there how did I made this recipe: https://youtu.be/Uw1ESzB72zU.


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