Crispy Pork Carnitas
4.7
Ingredients
- Prep
- 15 min
- Cook
- 220 min
- Total
- 235 min
Instructions
- 1 Gather all ingredients. Preheat the oven to 275 degrees F (135 degrees C).
- 2 Remove fat from pork; cut meat into 2-inch cubes and roughly chop fat.
- 3 Mix together pork meat and fat with garlic, olive oil, orange peel, orange juice, salt, bay leaves, black pepper, cumin, cinnamon, and 5-spice powder in a large bowl until pork is coated completely.
- 4 Transfer mixture to a 9x13-inch baking dish. Cover the dish tightly with heavy-duty aluminum foil, then place on a baking sheet.
- 5 Bake in the preheated oven until pork is fork tender, about 3 1/2 hours.
- 6 Set an oven rack about 6 inches from the heat source and preheat the oven's broiler. Remove garlic, orange peel, and bay leaves from the baking dish. Transfer pork to a colander set in a bowl. Pour accumulated juices from the baking dish over pork. Return pork to the baking dish and drizzle with some accumulated juices.
- 7 Cook under the preheated broiler for 3 minutes. Drizzle more accumulated juices over pork and continue broiling until crispy, 3 to 5 minutes. Transfer pork to a serving plate and drizzle with remaining accumulated juices.
- 8 Enjoy!
By John Mitzewich