Slow Cooker Carnitas
Carnitas (pork for the rest of us) is so tender when it is cooked in a slow cooker all day. It just falls apart when you pull it with a fork. I love that this is so easy to fix and let cook all day while we are out running errands. I have set this up to cook overnight when we needed to take a hot lunch with us to the ski slopes or other daytime event.
Ingredients:
3 pounds Pork Roast
3 cloves of Garlic, minced (more or less depending on how much you like garlic)
½ teaspoon Salt
½ teaspoon Black Pepper
1 bunch Cilantro, chopped
1 cup Salsa, (your choice of heat)
1 cup Chicken Broth/Stock
4 ounces Mild Green Chilies, Diced, Canned (with tomatoes is good too)
Directions:
Remove any visible fat from pork and cut it into chunks so it will all fit in bottom of your slow cooker.
Combine garlic, salt and pepper in a bowl. Rub this mixture all over the roast before placing it in the slow cooker.
Toss in the cilantro, salsa, broth and chilies to the slow cooker.
Cover and cook on low for 6-8 hours (or longer).
Lift roast out of the slow cooker and shred it into little pieces with a fork.
Return to slow cooker to keep warm until ready to serve.
Serve on slider buns or with tortillas and fixings. The best part of this meal are the left overs! Serve the meat over a salad for a delicious lunch.
My daughter recently realized she likes carnitas after my sister made it. You’ve given me another recipe to try!
This sounds so good. I will have to make this for the family soon. Thank you for this great recipe
That sounds awesome! So good! Thanks for sharing!
That looks so, so good. Thank you for the recipe!
That sounds pretty good. I love using the slow cooker. Just throw everything in and forget it.
these look awesome i’ve been doing a lot of slow cooker stuff lately but i tell you it saves so much time! i will definitely try this recipe thank you 🙂
This looks so good and so easy….a little sour cream and pico de gallo and dinner is served!
OMG! This looks so good! I need to try it!
That sounds delicious. I would skip the garlic all together though.
I love Carnitas but have never made them. I’ll give it a try, thanks for the recipe!
Love slow Cooker stuff, this is good without the chillies too. Thanks for sharing.
Yum this is one of my fave go to recipes.
I don’t use cilantro though as I am one of those peeps that have the soap effect..sadly.
Thanks
I wish I had a serving of this right now because it looks and sounds wonderful.
Looks so good and a recipe I bet my husband would love. I will have to try to make this for him.
I think these Carnitas looks mouthwatering. I am making these for a get-together this week. Thanks so much for a great idea.
What a great recipe that I will have to try out on my family. I love to cook int he slow cooker at least 2-3 times per week.
Thank you for the recipe. We will try this one out.
This is my kind of recipe 🙂 Thanks for sharing it…Looking forward to fixing it!!
Thank you so much, I love having a new slow cooker recipe!
These look so delicious and sound pretty easy to make. My family loves it when I find a new recipe to try out!