The exciting world of bacon and fats today leads us to one of the best recipes with bacon that we know —with the permission of Torrezno de Soria—, which is mexican cuisine banner and a wonderful way to stuff tacos.
The carnitas, beyond their little complication, are ideal for making a luck of crumbled meat such as pulled pork, cochinita pibil or even chicken tinga, all of which are stuffed and can end up in a taco.
The curious thing about this recipe is that it has a slightly sweet point that we will give it with the Coca-Cola, although if you prefer to use a blonde beer it will also be wonderful. What is necessary is to use a good amount of lardwhich will be where we cook these carnitas.
Pure essence of Mexican gastronomy, once you make these carnitas you will have the perfect excuse to throw a Mexican party and more when you check what little time in making this recipe.
The first step is to melt the lard over low heat in a wide and tall pan, where we will then add the bacon cut into six generous pieces and already salty.
Then we incorporate the rest of the ingredients, cooking the whole over low heat. for a couple of hours. After that time, we will look for the carnitas to be juicy, but they still lack the final crunchy touch.
That’s why we try rescue oranges and herbs that we can recover and we raise the fire so that the carnitas brown for about 15 minutes. We remove the carnitas from the butter, drain them and serve them hot for the recipe we want to make.
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With what to accompany the pork carnitas
Some good carnitas are the perfect filling for some authentic Mexican tacos, so you just have to chop them with a knife and use them for this purpose. As they are intense, although curiously they are not heavy, it is good to accompany these tacos with pickled onion, a little pico de gallo and lime juice, although a guacamole would also go well or to make a burrito. You can also make some nachos with cheese and meat with this picada.
The carnitas can also be accompanied by white rice, mashed potatoes or in any way you can think of. integrate this meatlightly chopped with, for example, old clothes from a stew or including them in a pasta that you have already cooked.
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