Carnitas

Carnitas

Ingredients

• 4 LBS Pork (Butt or Shoulder)
• 2.5 TSP salt
• 1 TSP Black Pepper
• 1 EA yellow onion
• 8 EA garlic (cloves, minced)
• 1 TBS Oregano
• 1 TBS cumin
• 1 TBS olive oil
• 0.75 CUP Orange Juice
• 0.75 CUP Mexican Coke

Instructions

1. Pat dry pork
2. Combine salt, pepper, oregano, cumin, and olive oil and rub all over pork
3. Place pork in slow cooker, fat side up
4. Top pork with garlic and onions
5. Pour over orange juice and coke
6. Cook on low 10hrs or med 6 hrs
7. Remove pork from slow cooker
8. Save juice from slow cooker
9. Set aside all pork that you will be saving for leftovers
10. To prepare pork for eating, heat up a skillet very hot
11. Spread pork on skillet
12. Cook until it starts to crisp
13. Spoon over about 1 ladle of the saved juices and continue to cook until reduced

Serves 4