Instant Pot Pork Carnitas {Crock Pot Pork Carnitas}

Instant Pot Pork Carnitas give you the slow roasted flavor with none of the time and hassle.  You can use make this in the slow cooker.

Some of my other favorite Instant Pot recipes include Instant Pot Beef Stroganoff, Mongolian Beef Instant Pot Recipe, and Instant Pot Balsamic Pork Tenderloin

Slow Cooker Pork Carnitas

Although this recipe is an Instant Pot Pork Carnitas Recipe, it can also be made in the slow cooker.  With just a few changes, you can enjoy these pork carnitas in the Instant Pot or Slow Cooker.  Either way, they will taste amazing.

So don’t worry if you don’t have an instant pot.  Both cooking methods create a delicious meal that usually takes a lot more time and work to cook!

How to Make Instant Pot Pork Carnitas

• Cut pork into 2 inch pieces.
• Brown the meat before cooking.  You can do this right in the Instant Pot on the sauté setting with oil.  If you are using a slow cooker, go ahead and brown the meat in a pan with oil first before putting it in the slow cooker.  I don’t recommend using the slow cooker feature on the Instant Pot, use your regular slow cooker.

• Mix together orange juice, lime juice, cinnamon, Mexican oregano and chili powder.
• Pour liquid into Instant Pot with meat.
• Add in remaining ingredients including onion and cinnamon stick.
• Put on the lid and use the meat setting, high power for 35 minutes.

Now go do something else, about an hour later dinner will be ready.  Once I take out the pork, I put it on a cookie sheet and shred it. I like to leave the pieces fairly large.

• Remove the meat from the Instant Pot and shred on a baking sheet.
• Put the meat under the broiler for a few minutes to crisp up the edges before serving it.  I save the juices from the pot to pour over the meat and rehydrate it a bit.  

How to Serve Pork Carnitas

I love to serve it with fresh corn tortillas or flour tortillas, topped with with avocado, salsa, queso and just about anything! I also love serving it over lime cilantro rice and it is also perfect to use in burritos or on nachos too!

Garnish with some cilantro and you are good to go!

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Instant Pot Pork Carnitas Recipe

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