Carnitas, Bradley style

[Consiglieri]

Pulled some of the vacuum packed carnitas out of the freezer yesterday.  The product held up well  and still tasted good. I'll be having some more in about 15 minutes. :P

[NePaSmoKer]

Pulled some of the vacuum packed carnitas out of the freezer yesterday.  The product held up well  and still tasted good. I'll be having some more in about 15 minutes. :P

Try this one

Pork Burritos (Burritos de Carnitas)

Ingredients :

2 cups refried beans
1 (2 1/2 pound) boneless fresh pork butt roast
1 cup chopped white onion
1 carrot, sliced
1 clove garlic, minced
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon dried epazote
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
1/2 teaspoon coriander seeds, lightly crushed
Water
Fresh tomato salsa
12 (8-inch) flour tortillas
2 medium firm, ripe avocados, pared, pitted and diced
Scallions

Directions :

Place pork, onion, sliced carrot, garlic, salt, epazote, cumin and coriander seeds in large Dutch oven. Add just enough water to cover pork. Heat over high heat to boiling; reduce heat to low. Simmer, covered, until pork is tender, 2 to 2 1/2 hours.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Remove pork from cooking liquid; strain and reserve 2 cup of the liquid. Place pork on rack in roasting pan. Roast, turning once, until well-browned, 40 to 45 minutes. Trim and discard outer fat from pork. Using 2 forks, pull pork into coarse shreds. Combine pork and reserved cooking liquid in medium skillet. Cook and stir over medium heat until pork is evenly moistened and hot, 3 to 5 minutes.

If not freshly made, soften and warm tortillas. Reheat beans, if necessary. For each burrito, place 1/12 of the beans crosswise in a row on lower half of 1 tortilla; spread out slightly. Top with 1/12 each pork, tomato salsa, avocado and cheese, in that order. Fold right edge of tortilla over filling; fold bottom edge over filling and loosely roll up, leaving left end of burrito open. Place 2 burritos on each serving plate. Garnish with carrot sticks and scallions; serve and enjoy  ;D

You can smoke the pork also. The epazote is opt but makes the carnitas taste much better.

nepas

[Consiglieri]

Neps: recipe looks great and I'm looking forward to the next experiment.  After today's experience, your other posts, coupled with this recipe, really gave me some perspective (I read them after I ranted for a while).   Hope all is well on your end and looking forward to some good news.

Mike, the grump, Consiglieri. 

PS: that's one big mother of a burrito!

[HCT]

As always Nepas, another great recipe. Thanks :)

[NePaSmoKer]

I'll see what my sister has in the way of some mexican dishes that would be good in our BS  ;D

nepas

Thanks guys N gals.....glad you like them

[Stickbowcrafter]

Wow! That looks great.

-Brian