Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, carnitas delicioso!. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Carnitas Delicioso! is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Carnitas Delicioso! is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have carnitas delicioso! using 22 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Carnitas Delicioso!:
- Make ready 1 lb. Lard (no substitute!)
- Get 1 c. Bacon fat
- Get 3-4 lb. Pork butt, cut into large pieces
- Prepare 1 lg. Orange, quartered
- Get 1 lg. Lemon, quartered
- Get 2 Limes, quartered
- Take 1 lg. Onion, peeled & quartered
- Get 10-12 garlic cloves, peeled
- Get 12 jalapeño slices (from a jar)
- Prepare Salt
- Get Pepper
- Take Cumin
- Take Garlic powder
- Get Flour tortillas
- Prepare Garnish suggestions:
- Get Grated sharp cheddar cheese
- Make ready Sour cream
- Take Salsa
- Take Cilantro
- Get Diced onions
- Get Pineapple tidbits (seriously good!)
- Prepare Refried beans
Instructions 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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