Easy Pork Carnitas Recipe

One of the things we love doing is finding great recipes for inexpensive cuts of meats. Oftentimes they produce some of the most interesting and delicious meals, and inspired by one of our favourite restaurants in Palm Springs, here is a simple recipe for Pork Carnitas.

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• food
• recipe
• pork
• carnitas
• trendhouse

[nutindoin1]

This guy does talk too much,and at the 4:22 there is some gunk on the bottom of the pan he is using, does he even wash his pan? and please, the piano music is like that of a Peanuts christmas special, not cool at all

[mrmkurtz]

@nutindoin1 Hi nutindoin1 - I was just making these videos for my family and friends, I'm sorry if the background music bothers you, I was just using something from iMovie (if you'd like to compose a better soundtrack I'd be happy to use it). Rest assured that everything is cleaned before every part of the process is filmed... it's called editing.

[mgodina182]

it looks a bit dry. I would recommend cooking it in a crock pot for 8 hours and using chicken stock with onions, garlic, cilantro, cumin, salt and pepper. After that stick it in the broiler until its crispy. Just my two cents

[mrmkurtz]

@mgodina182 I am totally going to try that! That is a great idea. The great thing about that cut of meat is that it can be cooked so many ways, and always be awesome.

[jasonwhitton]

yum, is there any way to make it with less fatty pieces of meat, and it still be tender?

[mrmkurtz]

@jasonwhitton No. The fat is what makes it flavourful. The slow cooking is what makes it tender. In my experience, you can't have tender without fat.

[tubeberk08]

good stuff... i always order carnitas or chile verde with my mex food here in california...

[BloodSuckinRetard]

Really appreciate your videos!

They're very easy to follow and instructive- I even made my own mozzarella!

Keep up the good work, big fan!

[fistoffries]

Great video! Looked delicious.

Were you using a frying pan or a deep pot? Would it make a difference? I could not tell from the angle.

[mrmkurtz]

@trance409 Hey trance409 - I'd love to hear more about how specifically you were 'disappointed', so I can maybe modify the recipe. Was it too dry? Too spicy? Too unseasoned? I really just posted this recipe for my family but I'd love to make it better based on other people trying it.

[mrmkurtz]

@InvitationsofLove Well that's really the whole point of the recipe - simple and easy. If you have a better, more work intensive way of producing the same result I'm sure we'd love to hear it.

[trance409]

:/ disappointed 

[InvitationsofLove]

OMG this a lazy white man's way -