Grammy's Kitchen · Carnitas · Slow Cooker Carnitas
One of 91 carnitas recipes we measured
from www.budgetbytes.com
It ranks #1 of 91 for gravy quality among the carnitas recipes we compared. 63 cooks on www.budgetbytes.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 | 12% | 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.
| 150 g | 1 yellow onion ($0.32) |
| 12 g | 4 cloves garlic ($0.32) |
| 2 small cinnamon sticks ($0.95) | |
| 2 g | 1/2 Tbsp oregano ($0.08) |
| 3 g | 1/2 Tbsp cumin ($0.08) |
| 3 g | 1/2 tsp salt ($0.02) |
| Freshly cracked pepper ($0.05) | |
| 1 g | 1/2 tsp chipotle pepper powder ($0.05) |
| 1361 g | 3 lbs pork butt roast ($5.26) |
| 2 small oranges ($0.67) |
Method: 5 steps, published by www.budgetbytes.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“I’ve made these probably half a dozen times, and every time I do so I forget just how delicious they are. I frequently can’t find a 3 pound roast, so I usually just double the recipe and freeze the excess meat (it freezes beautifully in the juices). This time ” — a cook, 5★
“Absolutely delicious, we couldn’t get enough! Reading through the recipe it didn’t seem like nearly enough spices for the amount of meat. I got about 3.5 lb of pork butt and made 3x the seasoning so I could cover the meat with the amount of seasonings that fel” — a cook, 5★