Pressure Cooker Instant Pot Carnitas

This amazingly delicious, juicy and crispy, all at the same time, pressure cooker pork carnitas come together in no time, and with almost no work! Take a look at this recipe to find out how to make these fabulous carnitas!

If you like carnitas tacos you get at a local taco place, you will be able to make your own tacos with these delicious pressure cooker carnitas! By putting together just a few ingredients in your Instant Pot Pressure Cooker, you can make these delicious Instant Pot Pork Carnitas in no time.

What Is Carnitas?

Are you wondering, what are carnitas? Carnitas is delicious roasted pulled pork. You can eat pork carnitas on its own with vegetables, or make carnitas tacos or carnitas burritos. Carnitas pork is so delicious, especially when the bits of shredded pork contain both crunchy pieces and soft, juicy pieces.

And the best news is, you can make carnitas in your Instant Pot Pressure Cooker! Your Instapot carnitas will come out really delicious, and they will take very little time to make, and will require almost no work.

What Cut Of Pork To Use For Carnitas?

A question that comes up a lot is what cut of pork to use, when making a pork carnitas recipe. To make Insta Pot pressure cooker carnitas, you really need to use a pork roast, the cut that has some fat in it. For example, pork tenderloin is not a good cut to make Instantpot carnitas recipe, because pork tenderloin does not have a lot of fat.

The best cut of pork to use for shredded pork is a pork butt roast (it is also called pork shoulder roast, or Boston butt). This particular pork cut has a lot of fat, and will make for juicy, flavorful and delicious carnitas.

Pork butt is a tough cut of pork, but don’t worry about it. This is the best carnitas pork to use, as cooking this roast in your pressure cooker will result in juicy and delicious pulled pork.

Are Instapot Pork Carnitas Healthy?

This pork carnitas recipe is Keto, low carb, Whole30, Paleo, Gluten Free and Dairy Free. This is a delicious and healthy recipe that you can make for dinner!

Tools You Need To Make Instapot Pressure Cooker Carnitas

Here are the tools that you need to make this delicious recipe:

– Instant Pot Pressure Cooker, Instant Pot is really the secret for making your delicious pork carnitas in very little time! You will need the Instant Pot pressure cooker to make this delicious, tender and juicy canitas.

– Cutting Board, use the cutting board for when you need to cut the pork butt roast into pieces

– Kitchen Knife, use a knife for cutting the fat off the pork butt roast, and for cutting the pork butt roast into pieces

– Lime Juicer, use the lime juicer to juice limes. It is much easiest to get the juice from limes, when using the juicer.

How To Make Pork Carnitas

It is very simple to make your delicious Instantpot pork carnitas! All you need to do is remove fat from the pork butt roast, and chop it into several pieces.

Then, sprinkle the pork roast pieces with the Pork Carnitas Seasoning, and cook in the Instant Pot with lime juice and water.

Once the pork is cooked, you can shred it and either eat is as is, or you can crisp it up. And check out more delicious recipes in Fall Dinner Recipes.

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How To Serve Pork Carnitas

– There are so many ways of using this delicious Instapot pulled pork! Use it in this tacos recipe instead of shredded beef, or you can use it in burritos. Or, make these amazing Carnitas Bowls With Cauliflower Rice.

Or, serve them for dinner with Instant Pot Rice, Fresh Tomato Salsa and Strawberry Blueberry Infused Water.

Or, serve with Instant Pot Black Beans, Easy Cucumber Tomato Salad With Cauliflower, Greek Spinach Rice and Instant Pot Strawberry Lemonade.

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Instant Pot Carnitas

These Instapot carnitas come together with just 4 simple ingredients, and require no work, since they are cooked in your Instantpot Pressure Cooker!

Prep Time10 mins

Cook Time1 hr

Course: Main Course

Cuisine: Mexican

Keyword: Instant Pot Pork Carnitas, Instapot Carnitas

Servings: 8

Author: TastyGalaxy.com

Equipment

• Instant Pot
• Cutting Board
• Knife
• Lime Juicer

Ingredients

• 3 lb Pork Shoulder Roast or pork butt roast
• 2 Limes medium
• 1 tsp Pork Carnitas Seasoning
• 2 tbsp Canola Oil optional

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Instructions

• On a cutting board trim the pork roast, by cutting off most of the fat. Cut the pork into 4-5 pieces. Sprinkle the pork with Pork Carnitas Seasoning.
• Wash and juice the limes, using a lime juicer.

  Arrange the pork in the Instant Pot Pressure Cooker. Add lime juice and water.
• Place the lid on the Instant Pot, use the manual setting, and cook for 60 minutes. Use Natural Release, and wait for the valve to drop.

  Remove the pork from the Instant Pot to a plate. Once the pork cools, shred it.

  You can eat it as is, or you can make it crispy. Heat up oil in the saute pan. Once the oil is hot, add shredded pork. Cook for 5-10 minutes, until shredded pork is crispy.

  Serve with Air Fried Asparagus, Instant Pot Potato Salad, Cucumber Lemon Water.

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