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How to Prepare Perfect Slow Cooker Chicken Carnitas

 ·  ☕ 3 min read  ·  ✍️ Oscar Owen

Slow Cooker Chicken Carnitas
Slow Cooker Chicken Carnitas

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, slow cooker chicken carnitas. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Slow Cooker Chicken Carnitas is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Slow Cooker Chicken Carnitas is something that I have loved my entire life.

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

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

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