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Ralph's Carnitas Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
1 pork shoulder/butt roast (about 3/4 lb per person)
salt
pepper
garlic salt
olive oil
1 med to large onion cut in large pieces
1 package Lipton Onion Soup Mix
1 can chipotle pepper sauce (can substitute 2 cans of chipotle peppers in adobo sauce, you need all of the sauce but only 3-4 of the peppers chopped fine)
2 cloves garlic chopped fine
Directions:
Directions:
preheat oven to 400º. Pat salt, pepper and garlic salt on all sides of roast. Brown the entire roast in 2-3 tbsp olive oil in a pot big enough for the roast(s) on high heat. Remove from heat. Pour package of onion soup, garlic, and chipotle sauce on top of roast. Add onion. Cover and bake in oven for 4 hours, checking at 3 hours to make sure there is plenty of liquid in the bottom. Add a little water if the fluid in the bottom starts to thicken up.
Remove the roast from the oven when the meat shreds easily with a fork (and I mean easily), shred meat into another pan discarding any fat and bone. Spoon a few large serving spoons full of the liquid from the roast pan over the meat to taste. Make sure not to put too much as the meat will become soggy and greasy, and try to get the onions and the good stuff off the bottom of the pan under the grease. Serve with rice, beans, tortillas, sour cream, home made salsa.
Number Of Servings:
Number Of Servings:
5+
Preparation Time:
Preparation Time:
20 mins
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
I brown the meat with whatever spices I have in the cupboard that look and smell cool. Chipotle peppers are hot so depending on your tolerance level you can add or subtract peppers, but the more sauce you can squeeze out of the can, the better. I usually do 2 roasts at a time so cooking time may vary. Dutch ovens work awesome but you may have to shorten the cooking time a little.

 

 

 

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