Easy Crockpot Carnitas + How to Make Them Crispy!

A simple recipe for scrumptious Crockpot Pork Carnitas! This Mexican classic comes together in no time using flavorful pork butt, spices, onion, oranges, and beer! With a special trick to get your carnitas tasting higher than what you get at a eating place! Perfect for filling tacos, burritos, quesadillas, and more!

These Crockpot Carnitas are:

  1. Easy to make. Basically a sell off and pass slow cooker recipe!
  2. Super flavorful, a recipe the WHOLE FAMILY will eat.
  3. It is a huge recipe that continues clearly well so it is perfect for stretching into more than one meals!

I love these Carnitas a lot in fact that I am running on an entire recipe series of what to make together with your Leftover Carnitas!

yield: 8 servingsHaedarprint recipe

Easy Crockpot Carnitas

prep time: 15 MINScook time: 7 HOURStotal time: 7 hours 15 mins

A simple recipe for scrumptious Crockpot Pork Carnitas! This Mexican classic comes together in no time using flavorful pork butt, spices, onion, oranges, and beer! With a special trick to get your carnitas tasting higher than what you get at a eating place! Perfect for filling tacos, burritos, quesadillas, and more!

INGREDIENTS:

  • 1 onion, diced
  • 4 pounds pork butt
  • 1 tablespoon chipotle chili powder
  • 2 teaspoons oregano
  • 1 large orange
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 (12oz) Blue Moon or similar wheat beer
  • 2 teaspoons cumin

INSTRUCTIONS:

  1. Carefully cut pork butt into 4 even pieces. Transfer pork pieces to the crock. Add onion, chipolte chili powder, oregano, cumin, and salt over top pork. Zest entire orange over top the spices and juice the entire orange into the crockpot. Slowly pour the beer overtop the crockpot contents. Cover the crockpot and set to LOW for 7 to 8 hours or HIGH for 4 hours.
  2. Set oven to BROIL. Once pork is done (able to be easily pulled apart) transfer all the pork to a sheet pan. Pull pork apart and spread over the entire sheet pan. Measure out about 1/4 cup of liquid from the crockpot and sprinkle evenly over the pulled pork. Transfer to the middle rack of the oven and broil 5 to 6 minutes until the pork gets nice and crispy edges.
  3. Serve immediately. Suggested serving, for delicious tacos serve with warm tortillas, queso fresco cheese, cilantro, and red onions.
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