Recipe: Perfect Cuban Pot Roast (similar to Mexican Carnitas)

Cuban Pot Roast (similar to Mexican Carnitas). This Cuban pulled pork is made with tender shredded pork, marinated in garlic, cumin, grapefruit and lime and cooked in the pressure cooker. This is very similar to my Slow Cooker Pernil, in fact if you don't have an Instant Pot (btw you should!) and Instant Pot Pork Carnitas (Mexican Pulled Pork). Delicious Mexican pork made in the Instant Pot (pressure cooker) for tacos, burrito bowls, taco salads and more (also great with cilantro lime rice)!

When I do it in the oven or slow. Similar to the difficulties you'll have finding a Cuban sandwich anywhere in Cuba, you'll be hard-pressed to find this Mexican Cuban Sandwich while Do you already have some roast pork or pulled pork available? We've got a delicious batch of slow cooked carnitas in the fridge ready to spring to life. You can cook Cuban Pot Roast (similar to Mexican Carnitas) using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Cuban Pot Roast (similar to Mexican Carnitas)

1. You need 1 of slow cooker liner for crockpot (makes clean up easy).
2. Prepare 1 of 4 lb pork roast (shoulder or rump roast).
3. Prepare 1 tsp of garlic.
4. You need 1 tsp of salt.
5. Prepare 1 tsp of cumin.
6. Prepare 1/4 tsp of cinnamin.
7. Prepare 1/2 tsp of coriander.
8. It's 2 medium of bay leaves.
9. You need 1 tsp of italian seasoning.
10. It's 1 quart of chicken broth.
11. It's 2 of stalks of celery (use the top with the leaves).
12. You need 1 medium of onion (minced).

This sounds great like a barbacoa or similar to machaca. Mexican Pot Roast. this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. This Instant Pot Crispy Carnitas recipe is so delicious, and extra-easy when made in the pressure cooker! Perfect for tacos, burritos, salads, and more.

Cuban Pot Roast (similar to Mexican Carnitas) instructions

1. place slow cooker liner in crockpot..
2. mix all the dry spices in the food processor ... if you don't have a food processor then mix with a wisk well..
3. mix rub all over roast and let rest for almost 1 hr..
4. put the bay leaves and 2 cup of chicken broth in the bottom of crockpot..
5. place roast fat side up in crockpot. If there isn't enough fat I lay thick bacon over the 'up' portion of the roast. after you put leftover rub on the roast..
6. let roast cook 5 hours and turn..
7. after 10 hours on low take roast out of cooker..
8. remove bay leaves, when you take it out to shred..
9. shred roast using forks and put back in cooker..

Instant Pot Carnitas are crispy and juicy Mexican pulled pork tacos made healthy in pressure cooker. Pork roast: Pork shoulder aka pork butt roast - same thing and is part of the pig's shoulder. "Butt" goes back to the days when butchers in Boston area packed the pork shoulder unto barrels. Cubans and Mexicans are about as similar to one another as Germans and Jamaicans. They're vastly different cultures with the only commonality being that they speak (somewhat) the same language, albeit with huge differences. Cuba is an island in the Caribbean that is a fusion of Spanish and African.