Grammy's Kitchen · Carnitas · No-Waste Tacos de Carnitas With Salsa Verde
One of 40 carnitas recipes we measured
from www.seriouseats.com
51 cooks on www.seriouseats.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 | 21% | 8% |
| salt | 1% | 0% |
| vegetables and beans | 45% | 0% |
Adapts cleanly: egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 300 g | 2 medium onions, divided |
| 8 g | 1/2 cup (8g) chopped cilantro |
| 1361 g | 3 pounds boneless pork shoulder, cut into 2-inch cubes |
| 8 g | 1 tablespoon (8g) kosher salt, plus more to taste |
| 1 medium orange | |
| 18 g | 6 cloves garlic, halved, divided |
| 2 g | 2 bay leaves |
| 1 cinnamon stick, broken into three or four pieces | |
| 54 g | 1/4 cup (60ml) vegetable oil |
| 680 g | 6 medium tomatillos (about 1 1/2 pounds, 0.7kg), peeled and halved |
| 30 g | 2 jalapeño peppers, stem removed and halved lengthwise |
| 24 corn tortillas | |
| 150 g | 1 cup (150g) crumbled queso fresco or feta |
| 3 limes, cut into wedges |
Method: 6 steps, published by www.seriouseats.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“With a 4.2lb skinless, boneless pork shoulder in the Dubai summer heat, I made a few adjustments, but largely stuck to Kenji's recipe and processes.Subbed bacon fat for veg oil, added 1 tsp of chipotle chili powder, 1 tbsp of cumin and more garlic. Mixed every” — a cook
“I've made carnitas in lard, and it took about 4 hours, from pulling everything out of the fridge to table. To me, that's a LOT of electricity for one dish in an oven for half a day. To make the cooking faster, I've done the pork in a pressure cooker (OLD SCHOO” — a cook