Grammy's Kitchen · Carnitas · Simple Carnitas
One of 91 carnitas recipes we measured
from www.allrecipes.com
It ranks #1 of 91 for gravy quality among the carnitas recipes we compared. 274 cooks on www.allrecipes.com rate it 4.6★.
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 | 37% | 9% |
| salt | 10% | 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 (3 1/2) pound boneless pork shoulder, trimmed and cut into 2 inch chunks |
| 2 oranges, quartered | |
| 150 g | 1 large white onion, quartered |
| 18 g | 6 cloves garlic, peeled and crushed |
| 46 g | 0.25 cup kosher salt |
| 7 g | 1 tablespoon ground cumin |
| 1 tablespoon whole black peppercorns | |
| 2 g | 2 bay leaves |
Method: 5 steps, published by www.allrecipes.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“I live in South Florida, home to some amazing Mexican/Cuban restaurants and Carnitas is one of my favorite. This is a great recipe that a made as written a couple times and have since finish tweaking (after a couple years of trying) to match what we get down h” — a cook, 5★
“I loved these! I followed a few other readers in some modifications. I used pork loin. I used 1 Tbls kosher salt and about 1 Tbls salt substitute just to cut down on sodium. (It was still a tad salty.) I added 1 Tbls mexican hot chili powder, used fresh cracke” — a cook, 5★