Grammy's Kitchen · Carnitas · Pork Carnitas Tacos
One of 91 carnitas recipes we measured
from therecipecritic.com
It ranks #1 of 91 for gravy quality among the carnitas recipes we compared.
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 | 0% | 0% |
| aromatics | 9% | 9% |
| acid | 14% | 0% |
| 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.
| 1814 g | 4 pounds pork shoulder roast |
| 8 g | 1 tablespoon chili powder |
| 2 g | 1 teaspoon cumin |
| 1 g | 1 teaspoon oregano |
| 6 g | 1 teaspoon salt |
| 2 g | 1 teaspoon pepper |
| 184 g | 3/4 cup orange juice |
| 61 g | 1/4 cup lime juice |
| 12 g | 4 cloves garlic minced |
| 150 g | 1 small onion quartered |
Method: 5 steps, published by therecipecritic.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“The serving size on this says for 4. But how many tacos does this make? Is that serving size 2 tacos per person? I want to scale this up for a large party so it would be good to know how many tacos you could get out of the base recipe. Thanks!” — a cook
“You can get about 16 6-inch tacos from this recipe so about 4 per person.” — a cook