Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, carnitas de puerco. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Carnitas de puerco is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Carnitas de puerco is something which I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have carnitas de puerco using 7 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Carnitas de puerco:
- Prepare 10 lbs pork (preferably picnic butt or shoulder and ribs)
- Make ready Salt
- Prepare 2 (5 lb) tubs of lard
- Get leaves Bay
- Make ready 4 oranges or large manderines
- Get 4 heads garlic
- Prepare 1 glass (20 oz) bottle of coca-cola
Steps to make Carnitas de puerco:
- In a large thick stainless steel caso (pot u can use to cook on open gas flame) melt the lard over medium high flame.
- Cut pork meat into palm size chunks and place in the lard slowly and carefully. Cook until all of the meat is toasty brown color then add salt to taste.
- Cut the oranges in jalf and squeeze the juice from them directly on the meat in the pot. Add the orange rindes, bay leaves and heads of garlic. You may also add lime juice and lime rindes ass well…
- Stirring often but gently with a wood paddle or long wood spoon to prevent sticking allow to continue cooking until fork tender…
- This is a long and sometimes difficult meal to cook. Make sure you have about 3 to 4 hours to spare when cooking. It is woth it, trust me.
- Remove all the meat from the pot allowing as much of the lard to drain off before transferring to a serving dish.
- Chop all the meat up and mix together. Serve with salsa, beans and fice as a complete plate or enjoy as tacos…
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