Mexican Carnitas Tacos

This tasty carnitas taco is my favorite Mexican dish to make. Light, delectable and filling!

Ingredients:

2.4 lbs. (1kg) pork shoulder meat ( or prok butt)

1 large onion, chopped

6 garlic cloves, minced

2 jalapeno (I used red finger chilis that I had on hand), deseeded and chopped

1 cup orange juice (2-3 oranges)

Rub:

3 tsp salt

2 tsp black pepper

3 tsp ground cumin

4 tbsp fresh oregano (or dried oregano)

2 tbsp olive oil

To garnish and serve with:

Corn tortilla

Cilantro

Avocado

Tomato

Salsa (which I’d forgot this time.. )

Sour cream

Lime wedges

Instructions:

1.     Preheat oven to 325 °F/ 160°C.

2.     Rinse and pat dry pork. Prepare vegetables as instructed above.

3.     Mix together rub ingredients and rub all over the pork.

4.     Place the pork over the chopped onion in the roasting pan. Top with minced garlic and chilies. Squeeze over the juice of the oranges.

Steps 2-4

5.     Cover the pork roasting pan with foil. Place in a water bath (a larger pan filled with 3 cups hot water), and roast in oven for 2 hours.

6.     Remove the foil and continue to roast for 1 hours to brown and crisp the pork top. Add more hot water around the roasting pan should the water bath dries up.

Steps 5-6

7.     Take the pork pan out of oven and cut the meat into smaller pieces. Put it back to oven, roast without water bath for 30 minutes.

8.     Serve with warmed corn tortilla, cilantro, avocado, tomato, salsa. sour cream and lime wedges.