Instant Pot Pork Tacos AKA Instant Pot Pork Carnitas
Course Easy Dinner
Cuisine Mexcian
Prep Time 5 minutesminutes
Cook Time 35 minutesminutes
Total Time 40 minutesminutes
Servings 10
Ingredients
1Smithfield Seasoned Carnitas Pork Shoulder 1 cup of chicken broth or water Tortillas Lettuce or cabbage Cheese Other taco toppings and sidesNow the important part of cooking with Instant Pot is you need at least 1/2- 1 cup of liquid or your pot won’t pressurize. Make sure you have you everything ready to go with your Instant Potit took me about 5 minutes to figure out where to plug in the power cord. All you need for this recipe is the silver cooking pot and the lid. Put your pot in your Instant Pot and add your 1 cup of chicken broth. Set your Instant Pot to the Saute mode. Slice open your Smithfield Boneless Pork Shoulder Seasoned Carnitas Pork Shoulder package and dump the contents in, I made sure I squeezed out all the seasonings and juices out. Allow the meat to saute and start to brown, it happens a lot faster than you think. Be sure to flip the meat so the other side browns as well. Once your pork is browned press the pause/cancel button. Next press the manual button and then the plus sign to set the time to 30 minutes and seal up the lid. While it is cooking you may hear weird noises but that is totally normal! Once the time is done move the valve on the top to release the last bit of pressure and will go into keep warm mode. I had to let mine stay put for a bit, I got so excited doing it I forgot to finish our dinner prep. Remove the cooked meat into a bowl and shred the meat for tacos. We served ours on yellow corn tortillas with lettuce, cheese, sour cream, pico de gallo, Spanish rice, and beans!
Instructions
Smithfield Seasoned Carnitas Pork Shoulder
cup of chicken broth or water
Tortillas
Lettuce or cabbage
Cheese
Other taco toppings and sidesNow the important part of cooking with Instant Pot is you need at least 1/2- 1 cup of liquid or your pot won’t pressurize.
Make sure you have you everything ready to go with your Instant Pot, it took me about 5 minutes to figure out where to plug in the power cord. All you need for this recipe is the silver cooking pot and the lid.
Put your pot in your Instant Pot and add your 1 cup of chicken broth.
Set your Instant Pot to the Saute mode.
Slice open your Smithfield Boneless Pork Shoulder Seasoned Carnitas Pork Shoulder package and dump the contents in, I made sure I squeezed out all the seasonings and juices out.
Allow the meat to saute and start to brown, it happens a lot faster than you think.
Be sure to flip the meat so the other side browns as well.
Once your pork is browned press the pause/cancel button.
Next press the manual button and then the plus sign to set the time to 30 minutes and seal up the lid.
While it is cooking you may hear weird noises but that is totally normal!
Once the time is done move the valve on the top to release the last bit of pressure and will go into keep warm mode.
I had to let mine stay put for a bit, I got so excited doing it I forgot to finish our dinner prep.
Remove the cooked meat into a bowl and shred the meat for tacos.
We served ours on yellow corn tortillas with lettuce, cheese, sour cream, pico de gallo, Spanish rice, and beans!