Tacos de Carnitas
Change up your dinners and try these Tacos de Carnitas. They are juicy, crispy and very flavourful! It’s perfect for a family styled dinner, where everyone can help themselves to their favourite toppings.
Servings: 16 Tacos
Equipment
- Large Sauté Pan
- Large Deep Baking Tray
- Large mixing bowl
- Medium mixing bowl
Ingredients
- 700 g Pork Shoulder
- 250 ml Orange Juice
- 5 Cloves Garlic
Pork Rub
- Olive Oil
- 2 tsp Ground Cumin
- 1 tsp Mexican Oregano or Reqular Oregano
- Sea Salt
Taco Plating
- Small Tortillas
- Spicy Salsa
- Lime
- Fresh Herbs Corriander & Micro Raddish
- Sliced Pickled Red Onions (Optional) Recipe in the description
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 160c.
- In a mixing bowl marinade the pork with olive oil, cumin, oregano & sea salt.
- Heat a large sauté pan over high heat. Add the pork and sear on each side for 2 minutes.
- Until you have a nice brown crust.
- Add the pork, orange juice and crushed garlic cloves to a deep baking tray.
- Tightly wrap the baking tray with tin foil and bake for 2 hours.
- Carefully take out the baking tray and baste the pork (Pour the liqud on top of the pork 5-6 times).
- Wrap the baking tray tightly with tin foil again and bake for 2 and a half hours to 3 hours.
- Until the pork is tender and falling apart.
- Place the pork in a large mixing bowl and use 2 forks to shred the pork.
- Reserve the cooking liquid from the baking tray
Crisping the Pork (6-8 minutes)
- Heat a large sauté pan over high heat. Add half the cooking liquid and half the pork. Stir quite requarlly and cook into the pork has crisped, this will take 3-4 minutes for each batch. Repeat until all the pork is crisp
Serving your Tacos
- You can either serve by adding all the taco ingredients on to a table for a more family styled dinner or plate individually.
