Grammy's Kitchen · Carnitas · Pork Carnitas Tacos
One of 91 carnitas recipes we measured
19 cooks on www.recipetineats.com rate it 5.0★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 91.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| liquid | 22% | 7% |
| fat | 6% | 0% |
| aromatics | 11% | 9% |
| salt | 0% | 0% |
| collagen idx | 0.8 | 0.8 |
| marbling idx | 0.6 | 0.6 |
Adapts cleanly: egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| Pork Carnitas | |
| Spicy Tomato Salsa Sauce | |
| Small tortillas ((corn or flour)) | |
| Avocado slices | |
| Tomato slices | |
| Lime wedges | |
| White onions (, finely sliced or diced) | |
| Coriander / cilantro leaves | |
| Grated cheese | |
| 40 g | 1/4 cup finely chopped onion ((white, brown or yellow)) |
| 3 g | 1 garlic clove (, minced) |
| 27 g | 2 tbsp olive oil |
| 435 g | 14 oz / 435 g can refried beans ((I use Old El Paso)) |
| 3 g | 1 tsp onion powder ((or garlic powder)) |
| 1 g | 1/2 tsp cumin |
| 96 g | 1/3 - 1/2 cup sour cream |
Method: 7 steps, published by www.recipetineats.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“Hi Nagi, Made this for a birthday dinner and it turned out really good! I’m not experienced with cooking meats so I thought I’d mess it up somehow but I followed your instructions and it turned out so good! Other things that made this experience great: – Easy ” — a cook
“OK, first off, the demo must have been crazy fun and you literally had me laughing out loud at your bugger ups! You looked like you were having a great time. I have demo-ed before too and once even cut my fingertip – shredding… I cupped my hand so quick and Da” — a cook, 5★