Pati Jinich - How to Make Carnitas

I invited friends over because I'm making my version of these Fiesta food carnitas is a way to experience pork like no other you can choose if you wanna use pork pot or pork shoulder without the bone but do not cut off the fat leave it him there because that is what's going to add flavor in the dish and it's gonna help it brown look at the gorgeous meat four pounds of pork but you want big chunks you I have one tablespoon of vegetable shortening in here you can use lard you can use oils some people add cups of larding here but you really don't need much because I left the fat on the pork and I have it over high because I wanted to brown it already sounds like a party in here in one spot in pork-shoulder are really inexpensive cuts of meat but they do need for you to cook them for a while you just bring the best in them and I'm going to make here a very simple like braising liquid I'm gonna grab white onion I don't need a half of it it's going to go in my magical blender that purees anything that I throw in here I'm adding six garlic cloves a little bit of water about one and a half cups and then I'm going to add some of the spices these are usual suspects in Mexican cooking I have time in marjoram but not many people know that we use them that much we do and these are all Maddox are just incredible with pork so I have a teaspoon of thyme in a teaspoon of marjoram teaspoon of ground black pepper in a pinch of cumin just a pinch [Applause] the clothes in the salt I'm adding like five or six whole clothes and a full tablespoon of salt [Music] you know how some dishes just have some inherent meaning Anita's really mean get-together in parties and music and friends look at the Browning of analysis beautiful now you don't want to make the choice of these too small because the meat is gonna cook it here for a long time and it would dry up and you don't wanna make it because each family has their own special taste like you make it the same way throughout your life and then you pass it on so I'm adding that braising liquid in there then this is how I hope that my kids will make it to now it's going to simmer for a little bit and the two ingredients that are my family's secret secret ingredients sweetened condensed milk eat brings out like succulent side through pork that it's really incredible and the sugar in the sweetened condensed milk it helps it caramelize so I just added 2 tablespoons ok I just want to jump in there with that Milt look at how it looks it's fabulous just like that give me a 30 I was a 30 okay I have to wait an hour and then the other secret ingredient is orange the orange like a spark into a fish the citrusy notes are beautiful yet very subtle at the same time so you can see I mean the pork is going crazy in there already the meat is liking what I'm doing I can tell I'm going to reduce the heat to low medium low and it's going to stay here for an hour and when I open it you won't believe what you're gonna see admit that I ready all right I need us who wants tacos a great fiesta is loaded with good times good friends and great food especially when there is a full part of Carmita you

Channel: Pati Jinich

Views: 498,321

Keywords: Pati Jinich, Pati's Mexican Table, carnitas, Mexican Food, tacos, Recipe, Cooking Show, PBS Food, pork

Id: bSSsP3cpQ2w

Length: 5min 29sec (329 seconds)

Published: Thu May 04 2017