Slow Cooker Chicken Carnitas
Slow Cooker Chicken Carnitas

Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, slow cooker chicken carnitas. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

And a few weeks ago, I decided to make them my new thing. Chicken can be made into some seriously good carnitas! The other good news about this recipe?

Slow Cooker Chicken Carnitas is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Slow Cooker Chicken Carnitas is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook slow cooker chicken carnitas using 27 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Slow Cooker Chicken Carnitas:
  1. Take boneless, skinless chicken breasts
  2. Make ready navel orange (halved. One half reserved one half sliced)
  3. Take apple juice
  4. Take Cumin
  5. Prepare Garlic powder
  6. Get Salt
  7. Take Pepper
  8. Make ready bay leaves
  9. Prepare olive oil (divided)
  10. Take boneless, skinless chicken breasts
  11. Take navel orange (halved. One half reserved one half sliced)
  12. Make ready apple juice
  13. Prepare Cumin
  14. Take Garlic powder
  15. Take Salt
  16. Take Pepper
  17. Take bay leaves
  18. Take olive oil (divided)
  19. Get boneless, skinless chicken breasts
  20. Take navel orange (halved. One half reserved one half sliced)
  21. Take apple juice
  22. Prepare Cumin
  23. Get Garlic powder
  24. Prepare Salt
  25. Take Pepper
  26. Take bay leaves
  27. Take olive oil (divided)

These Slow Cooker Chicken Carnitas are guaranteed to be your family's next go-to meal for future taco nights. Each bite will leave you craving The key to adding a satisfying crunch to slow cooker chicken carnitas is using the broiler for the final step. Set an oven rack to just below the broiler. Slow Cooker Chicken Carnitas with cumin, paprika, oregano, chili powder, and lime juice have all the flavor of your favorite pork carnitas without the guilt.

Instructions to make Slow Cooker Chicken Carnitas:
  1. Pour apple juice into slow cooker and place chicken breasts.
  2. Season chicken with cumin, garlic powder, salt, and pepper. Place sliced oranges on top. Squeeze remaining orange over chicken.
  3. Cover and cook on high for 3 hours. After 3 hours, remove chicken and remove bay leaves and orange slices. Shred and return to cooker mixing with juices. Cook on high another hour.
  4. Set broiler to high. Place chicken on baking sheet and drizzle with 2 tbsp olive oil. Broil for 5 minutes.
  5. Remove and drizzle with remaining 2 tbsp olive oil and broil another 5 minutes.
  6. Remove and serve on flour or corn tortillas with your favorite fixings. Enjoy!
  7. Season chicken with cumin, garlic powder, salt, and pepper. Place sliced oranges on top. Squeeze remaining orange over chicken.
  8. Cover and cook on high for 3 hours. After 3 hours, remove chicken and shred and return to cooker mixing with juices. Cook on high another hour.
  9. Set broiler to high. Place chicken on baking sheet and drizzle with 2 tbsp olive oil. Broil for 5 minutes.
  10. Remove and drizzle with remaining 2 tbsp olive oil and broil another 5 minutes.
  11. Remove and serve on flour or corn tortillas with your favorite fixings. Enjoy!
  12. Season chicken with cumin, garlic powder, salt, and pepper. Place sliced oranges on top. Squeeze remaining orange over chicken.
  13. Cover and cook on high for 3 hours. After 3 hours, remove chicken and shred and return to cooker mixing with juices. Cook on high another hour.
  14. Set broiler to high. Place chicken on baking sheet and drizzle with 2 tbsp olive oil. Broil for 5 minutes.
  15. Remove and drizzle with remaining 2 tbsp olive oil and broil another 5 minutes.
  16. Remove and serve on flour or corn tortillas with your favorite fixings. Enjoy!

It is fair to say that we eat tacos at least once a week in our house, sometimes twice, and sometimes an embarrassing amount of times when there. Slow Cooker Chicken Carnitas are great as a main course or over some chips and guacamole as an appetizer. You can also make it a few days in advance and keep it in the fridge for nights when you want something hearty to eat but don't feel like cooking. Serve it up with a spoonful of sour cream. A lighter version of carnitas using chicken that is cooked in the slow cooker before being broiled until slightly crispy on the edges and moist and tender in Carnitas, a Mexican dish where the shredded pork is cooked until slightly crispy on the edges, has to be one of my favourite Mexican meat dishes!

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