Recipe: Tasty Crockpot Carnitas

Crockpot Carnitas.

You can have Crockpot Carnitas using 10 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Crockpot Carnitas

1. Prepare 3 lbs of pork (butt or shoulder) cut into one inch pieces.
2. It's 1 of sweet onion, diced.
3. Prepare 3-4 cloves of garlic.
4. It's 2 of cinnamon sticks.
5. Prepare 1/2 T of cumin.
6. Prepare 1/2 T of oregano.
7. It's 1/2 t of chipotle chili powder.
8. It's 1/2 t of salt.
9. Prepare 1/4 t of pepper.
10. It's 1 of large orange (zest and juice).

Crockpot Carnitas step by step

1. Place diced onion, garlic and cinnamon sticks in bottom of slow cooker..
2. Mix oregano, cumin, salt, chipotle powder, and pepper in a small bowl..
3. Pour powder mixture over cubes pork and stir to coat all pieces evenly..
4. Dump pork over top of onions in crock pot..
5. Zest some of the orange over top of pork..
6. Cook on low for 6-8 hours..
7. Remove cinnamon sticks, squeeze orange juice over pork and stir..
8. Serve alone, as a burrito or taco filling, over rice, etc..
9. (If you want it a little crispier, you can spread meat out on a jelly roll pan and broil for a few min.).