Pork Carnitas Tacos + Good Food & Wine Show! Recipe

On the subject of tacos, Pork Carnitas Tacos are one of the best of one of the best. Once I was in Mexico final 12 months, a lot analysis was finished to seek out the BEST carnitas joints that the locals hang-out!

Mexicans take their Carnitas tacos significantly as a result of it’s so mouth wateringly scrumptious. Succulent, sluggish cooked seasoned pork, shredded and stuffed into tacos. I’m so obsessed, these are what I made for the cooking demo I did on the 2016 Sydney Good Meals & Wine Present on the weekend!!!

It’s been 2 years since I posted my Pork Carnitas recipe which, to today, stays as considered one of my all time hottest recipes. I’ve made it numerous instances since, and I’m truthfully not exaggerating after I say that I virtually all the time have baggage of frozen Carnitas in my freezer.

They’re that simple, that good, and that versatile. Verified by the lots of of readers who’ve left their suggestions on the recipe!

So when Murray Valley Pork requested me to do a cooking demo at this years’ Sydney Good Meals & Wine Present (simply, , the largest foodie occasion of the 12 months!!), there was no competition – I needed to do Mexican Pulled Pork Tacos!!

GOOD FOOD & WINE SHOW replace!

The Sydney Good Meals & Wine Present happened on the weekend simply gone and I used to be so excited to be there doing cooking demos for Murray Valley Pork!! I deliberate for it meticulously, practiced the recipes again and again, slapped on the make-up and packed a complete suitcase stuffed with kitchen gear to take (no joke). And I had all my Child Fingers tightly crossed that it might go precisely to plan.

It didn’t.

I forgot to make use of many of the garnishes and sides for every thing I made, eager to make every thing look fairly.

I fully buggered up a sauce.

I attempted to salvage it, then buggered up the salvage try. So I needed to remake it from scratch.

A pork tenderloin “jumped out” of the oven onto the ground.

And after I went to the lavatory after the demo, I realised I had a chunks of pork in my hair. 😉

It was SO MUCH FUN!!!

As unusual because it sounds, all these bloopers simply made it even MORE enjoyable! With each bugger up I made, I simply laughed my manner by means of it, together with the viewers!

Wow, what an expertise. I liked chatting to individuals, liked speaking about why it makes a distinction to get to your butcher for Murray Valley Pork, liked being behind the scenes and getting my fingers soiled (actually!). And most of all, I liked with the ability to truly share my meals with individuals in actual life, not simply by means of the pc display screen. We have been solely handing out samples, however nonetheless! It was a touch of actuality of why I take pleasure in doing what I do – as a result of good meals isn’t nearly cooking and photographing the meals, it’s about sharing it!

And by fashionable demand….sure….just a little VIDEO of the Sydney Good Meals & Wine Present! 🙂

So in the present day, I needed to share with you the Pork Carnitas tacos that I made on the Good Meals and Wine Present. Albeit I forgot many of the sides and garnishes in the course of the present!!!

This unfold is my copycat of the Carnitas tacos at Outdated City Mexican Cafe in San Diego that my buddy Kevin from Kevin Is Cooking took me to after I visited a few months in the past. With San Diego being solely half-hour from the border of Mexico, there’s significantly good (and actual) Mexican meals there, and the Carnitas at Outdated City Mexican Cafe are reputed to be one of the best on the town!

I don’t wish to come off as obnoxious, however I did declare to Kevin that I really assume my Gradual Cooker Pork Carnitas are fairly darn near the Outdated City Mexican Cafe ones. 🙂

So I made my Pork Carnitas taco unfold full with refried beans (made by dressing up canned refried beans), a chipotle tomato salsa sauce similar to Outdated City Mexican Cafe. Listed below are some iPhoto snaps from after I went. What do you assume? Does mine look comparable? 😉

Juicy, tender pulled pork with the all essential golden crunchy bits. Right here’s a pleasant little shut up of the Pork Carnitas. Good sight, hmm??? 🙂

Creamy avocado and refried beans. Juiciness from tomato, zing from onion, and a recent kick from the spicy tomato salsa sauce, completed with a squeeze of lime.

No bitter cream and no cheese right here! That’s not the best way tacos are served in Mexico! However I’d by no means decide should you needed to have them….

Pork Carnitas Tacos + Good Food & Wine Show! Recipe

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Serves: 4 Prep Time: 10 minutes

Nutrition facts: 160 calories 20 grams fat

Rating: 5.0/5

( 1 voted )

Ingredients

• Pork Carnitas
• Spicy Tomato Salsa Sauce
• Small tortillas (corn or flour)
• Avocado slices
• Tomato slices
• Lime wedges
• White onions , finely sliced or diced
• Coriander / cilantro leaves
• Grated cheese
• 1/4 cup finely chopped onion (white, brown or yellow)
• 1 garlic clove , minced
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 14 oz / 435 g can refried beans (I use Old El Paso)
• 1 tsp onion powder (or garlic powder)
• 1/2 tsp cumin
• 1/3 – 1/2 cup sour cream

Instructions

1. Heat oil in a saucepan over medium high heat. Add garlic and onion, saute for 3 minutes.
2. Add remaining ingredients except sour cream and stir to combine. Add about 1/4 cup sour cream, stir, then add more to achieve your desired consistency. Once the beans are heated, remove from heat.
3. Warm tortillas, according to packet instructions.
4. Pile up Pork Carnitas on a plate.
5. Spoon Refried Beans onto a plate and top with grated cheese.
6. Place coriander, lime, onion, tomato and avocado onto a plate.
7. Serve with Spicy Tomato Salsa on the side as the sauce!

Notes

1. I like to make this with homemade chicken broth/stock instead of sour cream if I have it on hand. It has to be unsalted stock otherwise it will be too salty because store bought refried beans is already quite salty, which is why I use sour cream instead of store bought broth to loosen the thick gloop that comes out of the can to make it like what you get at restaurants.
2. Mexican Pulled Pork Tacos nutrition per taco, for Pork Carnitas + tortilla only (because I cannot be held responsible for how and what toppings you pile on!)