When it comes to tacos, Pork Carnitas Tacos are the best of the best. When I was in Mexico last year, much research was done to hunt down the BEST carnitas joints chinese tacos the locals haunt!
Mexicans take their Carnitas tacos seriously because it is so mouth wateringly delicious. Succulent, slow cooked seasoned pork, shredded and stuffed into tacos. It’s been 2 years since I posted my Pork Carnitas recipe which, to this day, remains as one of my all time most popular recipes. I’ve made it countless times since, and I am honestly not exaggerating when I say that I almost always have bags of frozen Carnitas in my freezer. They are that easy, that good, and that versatile.
Verified by the hundreds of readers who have left their feedback on the recipe! I had to do Mexican Pulled Pork Tacos! Mexican Pulled Pork Tacos – the juiciest, easiest, most flavoursome Pork Carnitas you will ever make! Wine Show took place on the weekend just gone and I was so excited to be there doing cooking demos for Murray Valley Pork! I forgot to use most of the garnishes and sides for everything I made, wanting to make everything look pretty. I completely buggered up a sauce.
I tried to salvage it, then buggered up the salvage attempt. So I had to remake it from scratch. And when I went to the bathroom after the demo, I realised I had a chunks of pork in my hair. As strange as it sounds, all those bloopers just made it even MORE fun! With every bugger up I made, I just laughed my way through it, along with the audience! And most of all, I loved being able to actually share my food with people in real life, not just through the computer screen. So today, I wanted to share with you the Pork Carnitas tacos that I made at the Good Food and Wine Show.
Albeit I forgot most of the sides and garnishes during the show! This spread is my copycat of the Carnitas tacos at Old Town Mexican Cafe in San Diego that my friend Kevin from Kevin Is Cooking took me to when I visited a couple of months ago. I don’t want to come off as obnoxious, but I did declare to Kevin that I truly think my Slow Cooker Pork Carnitas are pretty darn close to the Old Town Mexican Cafe ones. Juicy, tender pulled pork with the all important golden crunchy bits. Here’s a nice little close up of the Pork Carnitas. Juiciness from tomato, zing from onion, and a fresh kick from the spicy tomato salsa sauce, finished with a squeeze of lime.
No sour cream and no cheese here! That’s not the way tacos are served in Mexico! Everybody laughed and Murray Valley Pork declared it to be a fabulous new tag line! Where is the eye roll emoticon when I need it? Subscribe to my newsletter and follow along on Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram for all of the latest updates. My Pork Carnitas are ridiculously easy, yet packed full of flavour, succulent and has plenty of the all important golden brown bits!
Add remaining ingredients except sour cream and stir to combine. 4 cup sour cream, stir, then add more to achieve your desired consistency. Once the beans are heated, remove from heat. Pile up Pork Carnitas on a plate. Spoon Refried Beans onto a plate and top with grated cheese.