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The best Carnitas for your tacos, Tortas, quesadillas, etc!

To give this dish a Kolby Kash kick use Bayou City Seasonings All Purpose and Garlic Pepper, it will bring bold and lasting flavors. Links below:

www.Bayoucityseasonings.com
www.kolbykash.com

Carnitas Tacos

Ingredients:
4 lbs pork shoulder butt
2 Bayou City All Purpose
2 Bayou City Garlic Pepper
1 onion
1 Orange, juice and peel
1 Garlic head
2 bay leaves
6 Black peppercorns
16oz Manteca 9lard
1 cup Coca cola/ Dr.pepper, (save leftover for deglazing)
½ cup Evaporated milk
1tbs salt
1 cup water

Directions:

Cut pork into large, equal sized, chunks and season with 1 tbs Bayou City All Purpose. (www.bayoucityseasonings.com)

In a large pot, over med high heat, melt down Manteca (Lard). Add in chunks of pork, cooking in batches, browning on all sides.

Once all the pork is browned add all of the browned meat back to the pot along with halved onion, garlic, bay leaves, peppercorns, and remaining Bayou Cit All Purpose and Garlic Pepper Seasonings. Mix and cook on med low heat for 40 minutes.

While cooking, combine 1 cup warm water with 1 tbs salt. To the pot, add in salt water, cola, evaporated milk, juice and peel of 1 orange. Bring to a simmer and let that cook on low for 40 minutes to 1 hour. Or until tender enough to pull apart easily. Fork Tender!!

Remove all the meat and pull apart with a fork or let cool down and pull apart with your hands.

In a cast iron, heat 1 tbs grapeseed oil over medium heat. Add in your shredded carnitas and some of the juices from the carnitas pot and a splash of cola. let cook until the liquid is absorbed and you have some moist and crispy pieces of pork, about 10 minutes.

Serve hot on your tacos, Tortas, quesadillas, etc!!

For Tacos: (in Video)

Remove meat from cast iron and set aside.

Dip flour tortilla in your carnitas juices and and to cast iron over medium heat. Should sizzle a bit from the juices.

Let cook on one side for about 45 seconds and then flip.

Put your favorite cheese on top of the tortilla followed by carnitas and onion and cilantro.
Fold over your tortilla to let the cheese bind the taco and continue to let the tortilla brown.

Flip tortilla and let the other side cook until desired crispiness.