{"id":11831,"date":"2025-07-09T15:20:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T15:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/?p=11831"},"modified":"2025-07-09T15:20:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T15:20:49","slug":"joses-traditional-pork-carnitas-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/09\/joses-traditional-pork-carnitas-recipe\/","title":{"rendered":"Jose&#8217;s Traditional Pork Carnitas Recipe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/jose-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11528 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/jose-copy-268x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/jose-copy-268x300.jpg 268w, https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/jose-copy.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><\/a>Ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>4 lbs (2 kg) pork shoulder or butt, cut into large chunks (with some fat)<\/li>\n<li>1 cup fresh orange juice<\/li>\n<li>1 can of cola soda<\/li>\n<li>4 whole garlic cloves<\/li>\n<li>1 white onion, quartered<\/li>\n<li>2 bay leaves<\/li>\n<li>1 tablespoon salt<\/li>\n<li>1 teaspoon dried oregano<\/li>\n<li>1 teaspoon ground cumin<\/li>\n<li>2 cups of water<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Instructions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Place the pork chunks into a stainless steel \u00bd deep pan.<\/p>\n<p>Add the orange juice, garlic, onion, bay leaves, salt, oregano, cumin, and cola. Pour water.<\/p>\n<p>Cover with plastic wrap and heavy foil<\/p>\n<p>Place in oven at 250 for 8 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Use two forks to gently shred the meat into bite-sized chunks. (reserve juices)<\/p>\n<p>Place in sheet pans add some of the reserve juice and place in oven at 350 for 20 minutes or till browned.<\/p>\n<p>Serve with warm tortillas, lime, salsa, and chopped onion and cilantro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ingredients: 4 lbs (2 kg) pork shoulder or butt, cut into large chunks (with some fat) 1 cup fresh orange juice 1 can of cola soda 4 whole garlic cloves 1 white onion, quartered 2 bay leaves 1 tablespoon salt 1 teaspoon dried oregano 1 teaspoon ground cumin 2 cups of water Instructions: Place the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_rtcl_gb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[252],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[265],"class_list":["post-11831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recipes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"rttpg_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Alicia-Boes-Recipe.jpg",721,453,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Alicia-Boes-Recipe.jpg",721,453,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Alicia-Boes-Recipe.jpg",721,453,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Alicia-Boes-Recipe-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Alicia-Boes-Recipe-300x188.jpg",300,188,true],"large":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Alicia-Boes-Recipe.jpg",640,402,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Alicia-Boes-Recipe.jpg",721,453,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Alicia-Boes-Recipe.jpg",721,453,false],"rtcl-gallery":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Alicia-Boes-Recipe.jpg",721,453,false],"rtcl-thumbnail":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Alicia-Boes-Recipe-320x240.jpg",320,240,true],"rtcl-gallery-thumbnail":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Alicia-Boes-Recipe-150x105.jpg",150,105,true],"psacp-medium":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Alicia-Boes-Recipe.jpg",500,314,false],"rpwe-thumbnail":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Alicia-Boes-Recipe-45x45.jpg",45,45,true]},"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"LaPrensa Newspaper","author_link":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/author\/laprensa\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/category\/recipes\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Recipes<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Ingredients: 4 lbs (2 kg) pork shoulder or butt, cut into large chunks (with some fat) 1 cup fresh orange juice 1 can of cola soda 4 whole garlic cloves 1 white onion, quartered 2 bay leaves 1 tablespoon salt 1 teaspoon dried oregano 1 teaspoon ground cumin 2 cups of water Instructions: Place the","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11832,"href":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11831\/revisions\/11832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11831"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=11831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}