Authentic carnitas (recipe)
| Authentic carnitas (recipe) | |
|---|---|
| Name | Authentic carnitas |
| Ingredients | Salt • Pepper • Cayenne pepper • Garlic cloves |
| Cooktime (in hours) | 1 |
| Preptime (in hours) | 0.333333333 |
| Totaltime (in hours) | 1.333333333 |
| Keto friendliness | Keto friendly |
| Calories | 440.1 |
| Fat | 33 |
| Protein | 31.6 |
| Carbohydrate | 2.4 |
| Fiber | 0.8 |
| Net carbohydrates | 1.6 |
| Sugar | 0.7 |
| Saturated fat | 11.4 |
| Cholesterol (mg) | 128.8 |
| Sodium | 487.3 |
| Servings | 20 |
| Reviewaggregate | |
Editor-In-Chief: Prab R Tumpati, MD
Obesity, Sleep & Internal medicine
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Authentic carnitas (recipe) is a keto friendly food item with net carbohydrates of about 1-2 per serving.
Recipe instructions
- Preheat oven to 275 degrees.
- Place pork on a large cutting board.
- Slice large holes all around pork. Apprx 4 on top, 4 on bottom, 1 on each of the remaining sides.
- Insert a generous amount of garlic in each hole.
- Rub all dry ingredients on to pork evenly. The pork should be covered on all sides in the dry mix. Add more cayenne if you want more heat and more salt to taste.
- Place pork in 9 x 12 baking dish.
- Wrap foil over baking dish so it is completely closed.
- Place on bottom rack of oven.
- Bakefor 7 - 8 hours (if you have time to bakelonger it will be that much more tender).
- Remove from oven and slightly piece the pork apart.
- Remove excess juices, but you do want some for moisture.
- Replace foil and cook another 2 hours.
- approximately 45 minutes before serving remove foil, tear apart a bit more, turn heat up to 400 and bake.
- Shred and serve! Delicious!.
Food tags
Meat, Mexican, For Large Groups, Inexpensive
Authentic carnitas (recipe) details
Time:
Prep Time in Hours and Mins:10H20M
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