Grammy's Kitchen · Carnitas · Leftover Turkey "Carnitas"
One of 91 carnitas recipes we measured
from www.seriouseats.com
It ranks #5 of 91 for richness among the carnitas recipes we compared. 7 cooks on www.seriouseats.com rate it 4.7★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 91.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| liquid | 0% | 7% |
| fat | 6% | 0% |
| aromatics | 50% | 9% |
| salt | 0% | 0% |
| collagen idx | 0.8 | 0.8 |
| marbling idx | 0.6 | 0.6 |
Adapts cleanly: dairy-free, egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 454 g | 1 pound (454 g) leftover cooked dark-meat turkey (thighs and drumsticks) (see note) |
| 1 orange, preferably sour, quartered (see note) | |
| 225 g | 1 medium onion (about 8 ounces; 225 g), quartered |
| 2 g | 2 bay leaves |
| 27 g | 2 tablespoons (30 ml) vegetable oil, chicken fat, turkey fat, or duck fat |
| Kosher salt |
Method: 2 steps, published by www.seriouseats.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“Speaking of "if it all disappears..."Thousands of years ago, when I was in a rock band, we lived together in a house. One night we started to invent some dinner recipe featuring canned corn, vegetables, and some kind of meat, all of which we kept frying in a b” — a cook
“Very clever! I spotted this too late for turkey, but used the otherwise flavorless meat left from making chicken stock after roasting.It takes a ton of oil--the scraps are utterly dried out after so much cooking. Beware! It will stick badly without enough oil.” — a cook