Cuban Pot Roast (similar to Mexican Carnitas)
Cuban Pot Roast (similar to Mexican Carnitas)

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Cuban Pot Roast (similar to Mexican Carnitas) Very Very flavorful!!!! For an authentic Mexican carnitas texture, pan fry the shredded pork (after it's cooked) in its own grease to give it a crispy crunch, and to render out some of the fat. Our Cuban Mojo spice blend is a perfect starter spice for making the Mojo marinade to use on pork, chicken, fish, or shrimp.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook cuban pot roast (similar to mexican carnitas) using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Cuban Pot Roast (similar to Mexican Carnitas):
  1. Get 1 slow cooker liner for crockpot (makes clean up easy)
  2. Take 1 4 lb pork roast (shoulder or rump roast)
  3. Get 1 tsp garlic
  4. Get 1 tsp salt
  5. Get 1 tsp cumin
  6. Make ready 1/4 tsp cinnamin
  7. Prepare 1/2 tsp coriander
  8. Make ready 2 medium bay leaves
  9. Take 1 tsp italian seasoning
  10. Take 1 quart chicken broth
  11. Take 2 stalks of celery (use the top with the leaves)
  12. Take 1 medium onion (minced)

While you can braise the meat in your oven or in a pot on your stovetop, I like to use my crockpot. Using a slow cooker is the easiest way to make carnitas. To make carnitas, rub a pork butt roast (pork shoulder) with some pantry-staple spices then put it in your slow cooker with some lime and orange juice, a little garlic, and bay leaves. I like to use pork loin for a lean, yet flavorful carnitas meat, but you can use pork shoulder if you'd prefer.

Instructions to make Cuban Pot Roast (similar to Mexican Carnitas):
  1. place slow cooker liner in crockpot.
  2. mix all the dry spices in the food processor … if you don't have a food processor then mix with a wisk well.
  3. mix rub all over roast and let rest for almost 1 hr.
  4. put the bay leaves and 2 cup of chicken broth in the bottom of crockpot.
  5. place roast fat side up in crockpot. If there isn't enough fat I lay thick bacon over the 'up' portion of the roast. after you put leftover rub on the roast.
  6. let roast cook 5 hours and turn.
  7. after 10 hours on low take roast out of cooker.
  8. remove bay leaves, when you take it out to shred.
  9. shred roast using forks and put back in cooker.

To make Instant Pot Carnitas, see directions here for Instant Pot Pork. Carnitas are my favorite meat to order anytime I go to a Mexican restaurant. I order it for tacos, burritos, burrito bowls, and salads. Mexicans just like Russians love their sour cream. We also like to put it in soups, on crepes and pancakes, in pasta and pretty much on.

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