Crispy Carnitas Recipe (Mexican Slow Cooked Pulled pork)

Ah carnitas, crispy, melt in your mouth, fatty, delicious braised pork. These carnitas are great and easy as heck to make for get togethers, weekend meals, meal prep; but their mostly good for just tacos. Best of all, it's extremely cheap to make!

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Ingredients you'll need:
4 pounds boneless pork boston butt, cut into 2 inch chunks
4 cloves garlic, sliced
3 bay leaves
2 cinnamon sticks
juice of 2-3 limes
water to cover pork (1.5-2 cups)
Spice mix -
1 teaspoon ground coriander
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon paprika or smoked paprika
1 tablespoon kosher salt

[christianpahua]

Hello, Joshua, I am from the P’urepecha tribe. My tribe invented Carnitas, n’ I just want to say: my ancestors would be proud to know that their food is beloved by so many all over the world. I also want to say that I know a lot of Chicanos speak badly when it comes to Mexican food being cooked differently, but I know that if you have my family//tribe these Tacos, they’d enjoy them. So thank you for taking an interest in our culture. N’ may you be blessed by many moons, Brother.

[superbombs]

Made these today add star anise, clove, and peppercorn to up the flavor. Now some of you might have noticed that he doesn’t say what temperature the carnitas should be in the oven but it’s ok 325 F to 345 F for 3 hours is the temps that will do the job. I would also salt the butt roast before anything and actually just let it sit salted for a while that does a lot for the meat. Also pickle onions this makes this next level use a mason jar 1/2 cup of distilled vinegar or white wine vinegar then some peppercorn 1 tablespoon sugar and 1 table spoon salt and that’s the brine then cut up red onions do it moon style or whatever doesn’t really matter as long as they are thin. Then put red onions in bowl get a pot of boiling water going, put boiling water on red onions for 1 minute put onions in mason jar put brine in after and make night before so the next day you have perfectly pickled onions for the tacos. Good luck!

[jnaylor]

I made these today. 3.5 hours at 350 degrees. They were amazing. Thanks Josh. Cilantro, pickled red onion, and pineapple for me though.

[miggie]

i love when he cooks mexican food because it’s not always as traditional as i’ve had it growing up but it still looks AMAZING and shows me how different you can cook foods with slightly different tastes and i want to try them alll

[MrDunbeashowoff]

Hey Josh, thank you for sharing everything that you do. This is just a token of my appreciation for all the work you have done, I hope this helps you and anyone else that needs this layout. Cheers

Pork Directions:
1:09 → Cut pork shoulders into 2 inch cubes. Leave the fat on.
1:37 → Slice cloves of garlic.
1:46 → Mise en place; spice mix, limes, garlic, and cinnamon sticks + bay leaves
2:03 → Place cubed pork into a dutch oven pot, and thoroughly coat the meat with the spice mix, garlic, lime juice, and water to cover the pork. Then add the bay leaves & cinnamon sticks.
2:37 → Heat up the dutch pot (with relatively high heat on the burner/stovetop) til simmer and place in the oven. Slow cook til meat develops colour, becomes tender, and falls apart. In the oven, turn the meat over time to time so it cooks evenly.
3:05 → will be done when the liquid has completely evaporated and the rendered fat is frying in the bottom of the meat (with adequate colour).
4:22 → (optional) pour out the pork onto a baking sheet/pan, and slightly pull the pork off into bite-sized chunks (with tongs & hands).
4:46 → (optional) put the baking pan into the oven for 10 mins at 400 F just to crisp it up a little bit.


Corn Tortilla Directions: (with 1.5 cups water, 2 cups flour)
3:10 → Mix tortilla ingredients. Make 19 dough balls with an ~inch of a diameter each.
3:31 → use tortilla press to press the dough balls into tortillas.
3:45 → cook tortilla 1 min on each side on a hot frying pan (preheated on medium high heat on the induction stove top).


Toppings & Plating Directions:
3:57 → cut up the onions.
4:53 → Toppings: cilantro, white onions, sliced radish, sliced lime, and crumbled cotija cheese.
Plate up and bon appetit.

[pandamanfordayz]

Dear Joshua,
I am a huge fan of your channel.
I have been following you for quite some time now, and your cooking has inspired me to get creative in the kitchen and push myself to get out of my comfort zone. Not only has this made me a better cook, but considering I am gluten free, has also helped me to be able to better come up with meals for myself that are allergy free :). Thank you so much for being a huge inspiration and incredibly entertaining to watch. I know this comment is on an older video, but I’m totally making these again tomorrow I made them a while ago and they are to die for. Thank you again and much love from Miami Florida.

[nathaliaruizcardenas]

As a mexican, I need to say that I’m not offended at all hahaha. That looks amazing, J.

If you ever feel curious about mexican cuisine, I’m more than happy to give you my grandmas recipes.

[AcaTea]

I’ll tell ya, Josh, you haven’t had Carnitas until you’ve had them deep-fried in lard in a cazo. It’s my favorite way to have it.

[rmamNana]

I am Puerto Rican/Mexican and I made these and it reminded me of my mother and grandmother’s cooking. DEEEELICIOUS!!!

[ninamilosevic]

I’ve made this 3 times. So good! I made a couple tweaks. I always add the juice of an orange plus the limes and a mini coke. Little to no water. Just enough to almost cover. A little less liquid means more browning. I haven’t found the last step in the broiler necessary because mine browns and crisps really well while still very tender.

[ashleighjaimaosborne]

I am Canadian, lived in southern Mexico 16 years. I would eat these in a minute! Thanks for posting. 😊🇨🇦

[Nocturne]

4:50 - came for the carnitas, stayed for the CAKES

[LatinGhost]

I learn to do it different when I was in Mexico…you have to use lard when it’s at it smoking point fry the meat a lil bit then add orange juice with the orange slice after squeezing at this point it’s going to start to boil instead of frying add salt, glass coke, and half cup of water.

[dmuse]

Videooo on knife skillss!! Sharpening knives and different cool types of knives!

[taejaskudva]

Watched this forever ago when I was pretty new to YouTube, remembered it when we found a week old pork butt in the fridge and we're trying to think of what to do. Even this old content is gold!

[aleesiasanchez]

This recipe was interesting! I usually just cook mine in fat, mexican cola, and some fresh squeezed orange juice. But that's the way my abuela taught me.

[alxmedina]

Production quality may have improved over the last couple years but the Josh quality has always been top tier!

[natalyacarvajal]

Seriously your channel is so underrated. Quality content and beautiful delicious food! Joshua, you’re amazing.

[jeanniecn__]

you missed out the most important thing for this taco... the salsa! haha, looks delicious tho, im Mexican and I love watching people from around the world cooking our food but you know, the real thing

[mateuszstrama]

Whats the oven temperature? Kind of an important part to miss out.