Ingredients
For the carnitas:
- 4-5 pounds pork shoulder, chopped into 3-inch pieces
- 6 cloves garlic, roughly chopped
- 1 tablespoon chicken bouillon powder
- 4 bay leaves
- 1 orange, halved
- 1 bottle Mexican Coca-Cola® or cane sugar cola.
- 1 white onion, quartered
For the pickled vegetables:
- 2 tablespoons agave syrup
- 2 cups white vinegar
- 4 teaspoons dried oregano
- 2 carrots, sliced thin
- 1 white or yellow onion, sliced
- 1 green pepper, sliced
- 1 jicama, sliced
- 2 jalapeños, sliced (optional)
Directions
- Place the pork into the slow cooker and rub the chopped garlic into the top of the meat.
- Sprinkle the pork with the bouillon powder and bay leaves.
- Squeeze the juice from the orange halves over the roast, then add the orange halves, Mexican Coca-Cola® and onion to the slow cooker.
- Cover and cook on low for 6 hours.
- Meanwhile, mix the agave syrup, white vinegar and oregano in a bowl. Place the carrots, onion, green pepper, jicama and jalapeños (if using) in a large bowl and pour the white vinegar mixture over the vegetables, mixing everything together. Let this mixture sit for at least one hour.
- Once the meat is cooked, remove from the slow cooker and allow to cool for a couple minutes. Use a Cleaver to chop the meat into small pieces, around one-quarter of an inch.
- Place meat into a hot skillet. Add some of the liquid from the slow cooker to the skillet and over medium-high heat, brown the edges of the meat so they are crisp.
- Serve on corn tortillas topped with pickled vegetables.
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