Recipe of Ultimate Slow Cooker Chicken Carnitas

Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, slow cooker chicken carnitas. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Slow Cooker Chicken Carnitas is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Slow Cooker Chicken Carnitas is something that I have loved my whole life.

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? Just toss all of your ingredients in a slow cooker.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook slow cooker chicken carnitas using 27 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Slow Cooker Chicken Carnitas:

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

Slow Cooker Chicken Carnitas is a fresh and delicious take on the classic carnitas made with pork. Slow cooked in lime and orange juice, adobo sauce with chipotle peppers, onions, and spices. Then broiled to aid in drop dead delicious and slightly crispy bits. Slow Cooker Pork Carnitas recipe video!

Steps 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. 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.

Then broiled to aid in drop dead delicious and slightly crispy bits. Slow Cooker Pork Carnitas recipe video! Is that a pressure cooker in the video?? My slow cooker (Breville Fast-Slow Cooker) is like an Instant Pot. It's multi-functional, a pressure cooker and slow cooker in one.

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