Recipe: Delicious Super Easy Carnitas

Super Easy Carnitas. This the easiest recipe for tasty carnitas. Once cooked, the meat can also be shredded and mixed with BBQ sauce for incredible pulled pork sandwiches, or pan fried in a little oil until crisp on the outside. These slow cooker carnitas are super easy to make and taste great in tacos, nachos, enchiladas or burritos!

It gets perfectly tender and will literally fall right apart. Carnitas tacos are the secret to a restaurant-worthy taco night. They're filled with meltingly tender pork that's finished with perfect, crisp edges. You can cook Super Easy Carnitas using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Super Easy Carnitas

1. Prepare 1 lb of beef roast or pork roast.
2. You need 3 clove of garlic, crushed.
3. You need 1 of onion, chopped.
4. You need 1 large of carrot, peeled and chopped.
5. You need 2 large of tomatos, seeded.
6. You need 2 of chopped peppers, jalepeno serrano.. your choice.
7. It's 3 tbsp of chili powder.
8. It's 3 tsp of salt.
9. It's 1 tbsp of cumin.
10. You need 1 1/2 tsp of dried oregano.
11. You need 1 1/2 tsp of coarse ground pepper.
12. You need 1 of beef stock.

Just make your carnitas in a slow cooker (super easy) and add some fresh toppings. You can serve them in Carnitas Tacos, quesadillas, or make sliders out of them. Adding them to nachos, a salad, or made into Carnitas Enchiladas is also highly recommended. And not going to lie, it's also pretty satisfying to stand in the refrigerator and eat cold carnitas leftovers plain the day after a party (they get better on day two!).

Super Easy Carnitas instructions

1. add all ingredients to a large stock pot, use enough stock to cover the meat.
2. bring to boil, then simmer 2 hours until beef falls apart.
3. remove the beef and shred with a fork.
4. drizzle shredded beef with stock juices until desired moistness achieved, salt and pepper to taste.
5. * remaining stock juices can be frozen for future use as soup base.

These carnitas are so easy to make, just like my Instant Pot pulled pork or the ultra-tender pot roast. As soon as these carnitas came out of my Instant Pot, I knew I hit the jackpot! The meat is super tender, juicy and full of flavor. Cooking pork carnitas is an easy two step process. STEP ONE: Cube the pork roast into medium-sized squares, keeping the bone too if you have it.