Easy Pork Carnitas in a Slow Cooker



Oh my goodness this is easy.  And so delicious.  I am trying something different here.  I'm going to post three different recipes that go extremely well together.  The recipes can also be used for many different recipes.



Easy Pork Carnitas in Slow Cooker

Ingredients:

3 lbs boneless pork shoulder

1 orange cut in half

zest from the orange

2 tsp. oregano

1 tsp. cumin

1 Tbs olive oil

4 cloves of garlic minced

2 Tbs oil


I love the aroma of this cooking all day.  Place pork shoulder in slow cooker, sprinkle salt and pepper to taste.  Mix olive oil, cumin and oregano together.  Spread all over the pork.  Add the garlic.  Juice the oranges and pour over the meat.  Sprinkle the zest of the orange over the pork.  Add the two halves of the orange to the slow cooker and cook on high for 6 hours.  Remove meat from slow cooker - heat pan to medium high.  Add oil and sizzle the shredded pork in the pan.  I don’t know why this makes such a difference but it does.  So worth dirtying another pan.


This meat is so easy and can be used in sandwiches, tacos, burritos, really in any thing at all.  Pork shoulder is an excellent meat to cook in a slow cooker it just continues to get more tender the longer it cooks.  Enjoy

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