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Slow Cooker Chicken Carnitas Recipe

 ·  ☕ 3 min read  ·  ✍️ Mina Adams

Slow Cooker Chicken Carnitas
Slow Cooker Chicken Carnitas

Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, slow cooker chicken carnitas. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Slow Cooker Chicken Carnitas is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Slow Cooker Chicken Carnitas is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

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

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

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