Orange Pork Carnitas - cooking recipe
Ingredients
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3 lbs boneless pork shoulder, cut into 2 inch pieces
1 medium whole orange, sliced into wheels
1 medium white onion, chopped
4 teaspoons garlic, diced
fresh cracked pepper, to taste
jane's krazy mixed-up salt, to taste (salt, dried herbs and spices)
20 small corn tortillas
Preparation
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Place 1/2 of the oranges wheels, onion, and garlic on the bottom of your crock pot.
Then add all of your boneless pork shoulder to the crock pot.
Sprinkle pork with fresh cracked pepper, Jane's Krazy Mixed-Up salt and the rest of your garlic.
Add the rest of your oranges and onion, to the top of the pork.
Cover crock pot and cook on high for 1 hour then turn crock pot to low and cook for about 5 to 6 hours or until the pork is falling apart. (Turn the crock pot back up to high the last hour of cooking.)
Remove any pieces of orange peel you can find and discard.
Useing 2 forks pull apart pork untill you get a shredded look.
Serve over toasted corn tortillas with your favorite accouterments such as -- fresh made guacamole, cilantro, green onion, and green salsa Verde.
Enjoy :).
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