Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, carnitas delicioso!. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Carnitas Delicioso! is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Carnitas Delicioso! is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook carnitas delicioso! using 22 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Carnitas Delicioso!:
- Take 1 lb. Lard (no substitute!)
- Prepare 1 c. Bacon fat
- Make ready 3-4 lb. Pork butt, cut into large pieces
- Make ready 1 lg. Orange, quartered
- Take 1 lg. Lemon, quartered
- Make ready 2 Limes, quartered
- Prepare 1 lg. Onion, peeled & quartered
- Take 10-12 garlic cloves, peeled
- Get 12 jalapeño slices (from a jar)
- Prepare Salt
- Make ready Pepper
- Make ready Cumin
- Get Garlic powder
- Make ready Flour tortillas
- Take Garnish suggestions:
- Make ready Grated sharp cheddar cheese
- Make ready Sour cream
- Make ready Salsa
- Prepare Cilantro
- Take Diced onions
- Prepare Pineapple tidbits (seriously good!)
- Take Refried beans
Steps to make Carnitas Delicioso!:
- Preheat oven to 250°F. Place lard in large (turkey-size) roasting pan and place in oven to melt. Add bacon fat and set aside.
- Prep all your ingredients while the lard is melting. The photo shows the cut sizes. A regular large roasting pan, as shown in this photo, is too small for cooking this dish. Use a larger/deeper turkey roasting pan.
- NOTE!! I don't recommend a disposable aluminum turkey pan because lime juice eats a hole through aluminum foil! (I learned this the hard way!)
- Place pork pieces (fat side up) in the roasting pan with the lard & bacon fat. Squeeze the citrus pieces over the meat, and place them around the meat pieces, skin side down. (The large piece with fat cap has a wide flat bone running the length of the piece, which is why it's bigger.)
- Add the garlic cloves, onion quarters and jalapeño slices to the pan. Sprinkle salt, pepper, garlic powder, and cumin over the meat (to taste; I don't measure them).
- Lay a sheet of parchment paper over everything to keep the limes from touching the foil. Then tightly cover the pan with aluminum foil, sealing well all around so steam doesn't escape while cooking.
- Bake in 250°F oven for 6-1/2 hours. Turn off oven and allow pan to cool before removing foil.
- NOTE: At this point, I usually refrigerate the pork pieces (discard fruit and lard) and finish the recipe the next night when I'm ready to serve it. But you can do it all in one day if you start early.
- Char the pork pieces under the broiler. Keep an eye on them, flipping the pieces to get an even char. Takes 10-15 minutes.
- Serve with warm flour tortillas, your favorite condiments, and refried beans.
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