About This Dish
Carnitas, literally meaning “little meat”, is a dish of Mexican cuisine. In this video, I am cooking our version of Pork Carnitas. It is good to eat together with salsa and tortilla wrappers.
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Ingredients:
3 lbs pork
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2 tbsp taco seasoning
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2 tsp salt
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1 tsp pepper
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1 orange
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1/2 lemon or lime
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1 onion
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4 cloves garlic
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1 cup water
Steps:
1. Put salt and pepper on the pork meat and rub it well
2. Make the blended sauce for pork by blending the garlic, onion, orange juice and lime juice together
3. Set to saute mode on the Instant Pot
4. Add cooking oil in the pot and wait until it gets hot
5. Put the pork in the pot
6. Cook all sides of meat
7. If you have a lot of meat, you can cook them in small batches
8. Set the cooked meat aside
9. Press cancel on Instant Pot once all the meat is cooked
10. Put back the meat in the pot
11. Add taco seasoning, blended sauce and water
12. Put the Instant Pot’s lid on and close it
13. Set to Meat/Stew mode and cook for 40-45 minutes
14. Set to Sealing position
15. Once the timer is over, press cancel
16. Carefully release the pressure from Instant Pot
17. Set to Venting position and open the lid
18. Get the meat and shred it
19. Broil the meat in the oven to get some crispy texture
20. Simmer the liquid remained in the pot
20. You can serve the pork carnitas with tortilla wrapper
