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Shredded pork on flour tortillas garnished with onions, lime and cilantro.

Pork Carnitas Tacos

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Fall apart tender delicious pork carnitas! Treat yourself to these delicious Pork Carnitas Tacos today!
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 8 hours
Total Time 8 hours 10 minutes
Course Main Course
Cuisine Mexican
Servings 6 people

Equipment

  • slow cooker or crockpot

Ingredients
  

  • 2.5 lbs Boneless Pork Shoulder for Carnitas if you can't find it cut up for carnitas, you can cut up the meat yourself into medium sized pieces
  • 1 packet Sazon Goya seasoning with Cilantro and Achiote; you can also use salt and pepper to taste instead of the Sazon Goya seasoning
  • 2 tablespoon Goya Sazonador Total you can also use salt and pepper to taste instead of the Goya Sazonador Total seasoning
  • flour tortillas or tortilla of your choice
  • diced onion suggested garnish
  • cilantro suggested garnish
  • chili peppers suggested garnish (I used Thai, you can use jalapeno or serrano as well)
  • Tabasco suggested garnish
  • lime cut into wedges, served on the side

Instructions
 

  • Remove the pork from the packaging and drain any excess liquid. If you can't find boneless pork shoulder already cut for carnitas, you can cut up the meat yourself into medium sized pieces. Add your Sazon Goya seasoning and Goya Sazonador Total to the meat and mix well. (You can sub salt and pepper for the Goya seasonings if you prefer).
    Seasoned pork cuts of meat in a blue crockpot.
  • Add the seasoned meat to your crockpot, and set on low. Cover and cook for 8 hours.
    A blue crockpot filled with cook pork for carnitas tacos.
  • Turn up your broiler. Place some of the meat under the broiler for just a couple of minutes or until the meat turns crispy and nicely browned. Keep checking the meat to ensure it doesn't burn!
    Pieces of cooked pork in a roasting tray.
  • Place some of the crispy and browned meat on your tortilla, and garnish with your garnishes of choice!
    Shredded pork on flour tortillas garnished with onions, lime and cilantro with glass bowls filled with cilantro, lime wedges, and diced onions in the background.

Notes

Enjoy these fall apart tender and most delicious carnitas tacos!  Also thank the Mexican state of Michoacan for their contribution to Mexican cuisine!  
Keyword pork, porkcarnitas, tacos
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