All 114 carnitas recipes
Grouped by the kind of cookie they actually make.
Every recipe we could resolve to grams, from 26 sites, sorted by how many cooks have rated it. The group is measured from the formula, not read off the title — which is why a few sit somewhere their own name would not suggest. Back to the recipe and the tweaks →
Slow cooker · 51
Walk away for hours in lard or its own rendered fat; gets the meat fully tender with no attention required.
Oven, covered · 31
The same fat-braise, moved to the oven's steadier ambient heat — more hands-off than babysitting a stovetop pot through the whole simmer.
Pressure cooker · 24
Fastest route to fork-tender pork shoulder; the confit-style flavor retention (fat, not water, as the medium) still works the same way once liquid is added.
Stovetop, big pot · 8 thin evidence
Pork simmered low in lard on the stovetop until the water cooks off and the fat is free to climb past boiling — the same pot then does double duty as the fry pan for crisping the shredded meat at the end.
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