Carnitas Baja Style
From cuzpat 14 years agoIngredients
- 1 4-5 pound lean boneless pork loin roast, with excess fat removed shopping list
- 1 cup salsa verde shopping list
- 1 large onion, minced shopping list
- 4 cloves garlic, minced shopping list
- 1 tbsp seasoned salt shopping list
- 2 tsp pepper shopping list
- On the side, buffet style: shopping list
- 2 dozen warm corn and/or flour tortillas shopping list
- 1 cup frijoles negros shopping list
- 1 cup thick sour cream sauce shopping list
- 1 can sliced olives (optional) shopping list
- 2 cups Chihuahua or Jack cheese, grated shopping list
- 1 bunch green onions, chopped shopping list
- 2 avocados, sliced and sprinkled with lime juice shopping list
- 1 bunch cilantro, stems removed and diced shopping list
- 2 bunches of whole radishes, stems removed shopping list
- 1 cup salsa fresca shopping list
- 1 cup salsa verde shopping list
How to make it
- Place pork roast in 9 x 14 pan. Rub garlic into the roast. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Cover with salsa verde and onions. Loosely cover the pan with aluminum foil. Bake at 300 degrees for four and a half hours, or until fork tender.
- Remove roast from oven. Cool until you can touch the meat comfortably. Remove from pan and place on cutting board. Skim fat off pan juices. Using two forks, shred the pork. Remove fat from meat. When all meat is shredded, return it to the pan and mix the pan juices thoroughly into the pork.
- Return to oven. Cook, uncovered for 30 minutes or until pork is crispy on top. Remove from oven. Turn pork. Return to oven and cook another 20 minutes, until pork is crispy on top and there is almost no liquid left in the pan. Serve as suggested above.
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