How to Make Pork Carnitas in a Slow Cooker Easy Crockpot Recipe!

pork shoulder

🥗Healthier: pork tenderloin

💰Cheaper: pork butt

Pork tenderloin is leaner, while pork butt is often less expensive.

lard

🥗Healthier: olive oil

💰Cheaper: vegetable oil

Olive oil is healthier, while vegetable oil is usually cheaper.

Rinse the Boston butt pork shoulder roast.

Cut the pork into 2 to 3 inch chunks.

Season the pork chunks with kosher salt.

Place the pork chunks into the heated crock pot.

Add a couple teaspoons of dried oregano and 3 teaspoons of cumin to the pork.

Cut the onion into large chunks and add to the crock pot.

Squeeze the juice of one orange into the crock pot and add the orange peels.

Add four cloves of garlic, broken up, to the crock pot.

Add a little black pepper to the mixture.

Cover the crock pot and cook on high for 40 minutes.

After 40 minutes, stir the mixture and reduce the heat to low, keeping the lid on.

Cook on low for about 8 hours.

Remove the pork from the crock pot, leaving the liquid behind.

Discard the bay leaves and orange peels from the liquid.

Shred the pork chunks with two forks.

Preheat a cast iron pan to crisp the pork.

Crisp the shredded pork in the cast iron pan or broil in the oven.

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