Grammy's Kitchen · Carnitas · Crispy Pork Carnitas
One of 40 carnitas recipes we measured
from www.allrecipes.com
It ranks #4 of 40 for tenderness among the carnitas recipes we compared. 197 cooks on www.allrecipes.com rate it 4.7★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 40.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| liquid | 0% | 12% |
| fat | 4% | 1% |
| aromatics | 2% | 8% |
| salt | 1% | 0% |
Adapts cleanly: dairy-free, egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 1361 g | 3 pounds boneless pork butt (shoulder) |
| 24 g | 8 cloves garlic, peeled |
| 54 g | 0.25 cup olive oil |
| 1 orange, juiced, orange parts of peel removed and sliced into thin strips | |
| 18 g | 1 tablespoon kosher salt |
| 2 g | 2 bay leaves, torn in half |
| 2 g | 1 teaspoon ground black pepper |
| 2 g | 1 teaspoon ground cumin |
| 2 g | 0.75 teaspoon ground cinnamon |
| 0.5 teaspoon Chinese 5-spice powder |
Method: 8 steps, published by www.allrecipes.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“Crispy Pork Carnitas Haiku: "Method is perfect, texture moist crispy heaven, but cinnamon? NO." The cinnamon totally wrecked this for us; b4 the broiling stage, my husband actually removed about half of the meat and rinsed it off under running water b4 returni” — a cook, 3.0★
“Wow! After reading several reviews regarding the cinnamon, I was skeptical but as a NATIVE south Texan, I can vouch for the authenticity of these carnitas, the flavor is SPOT on! I kept the spice proportion as written but adjusted for the amount of pork. The g” — a cook, 5.0★