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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 budget-friendly.

Go to the supermarket and buy pork roast, which can be in different sizes depending on how many servings you need.

Cut the pork roast into chunk pieces, not thin pieces.

Put the pork in a bowl and squeeze the juice from 2 halved oranges into the meat, adding the squeezed oranges to the bowl as well.

Place all the meat and juice into a crock pot and add Coca-Cola.

Cook in the crock pot on high for 4.5 hours.

After 3 hours, check the tenderness of the meat and add salt if needed, then cook for an additional 1-1.5 hours until tender.

Once the meat is tender, remove it from the crock pot.

In a skillet, add a little vegetable oil and the cooked pork.

Fry the pork at medium-low heat until it gets a brown color, flipping after 2-3 minutes for even cooking.

Cook for an additional 3 minutes on the other side, then start shredding the pork in the pan.

Let the shredded pork rest for 3-4 minutes in the pan.

While the pork is resting, cut a piece of bell pepper and onion into small pieces.

Preheat corn tortillas in the microwave or on a skillet.

Assemble the tacos by adding the carnitas, bell pepper, and onion to the tortillas.

Optionally, add lime juice and hot sauce for extra flavor.

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