Mexican
Pork Carnitas
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Heat the oven to 300F. Season the pork generously with salt, cumin, and oregano.
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Combine the pork, orange juice, lime juice, onion, garlic, and bay leaves in a Dutch oven with 1 cup water.
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Cover and braise until fork-tender, about 2.5 hours.
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Shred the pork, then spread it on a sheet pan with some of the cooking juices.
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Broil until the edges are crisp and caramelized, about 8 minutes.
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Serve on warm corn tortillas with chopped onion and cilantro.
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A Mexican dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Pork Carnitas, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The protein alongside
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Pork Carnitas carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish |
|---|---|
| Peanuts | No |
| Tree nuts | No |
| Dairy | No |
| Gluten | No |
| Shellfish | No |
| Eggs | No |
| Soy | No |
| Fish | No |
| Sesame | No |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 670 kcal
- Protein
- 48 g
- Carbs
- 26 g
- Fat
- 42 g
- Fiber
- 2 g
- Sugar
- 2 g
- Sodium
- 210 mg
- Saturated fat
- 13 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Pork Carnitas takes about 180 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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