Easiest Way to Make Slow Cooker Chicken Carnitas in 17 Minutes for Mom

Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, slow cooker chicken carnitas. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a 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 is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Slow Cooker Chicken Carnitas is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

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?

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook slow cooker chicken carnitas using 27 ingredients and 16 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. Take 1 navel orange (halved. One half reserved one half sliced)
3. Make ready 1/3 cup apple juice
4. Prepare to taste Cumin
5. Get to taste Garlic powder
6. Make ready to taste Salt
7. Get to taste Pepper
8. Prepare 3 bay leaves
9. Make ready 4 tbsp olive oil (divided)
10. Make ready 3 lbs boneless, skinless chicken breasts
11. Prepare 1 navel orange (halved. One half reserved one half sliced)
12. Make ready 1/3 cup apple juice
13. Get to taste Cumin
14. Make ready to taste Garlic powder
15. Take to taste Salt
16. Make ready to taste Pepper
17. Take 3 bay leaves
18. Prepare 4 tbsp olive oil (divided)
19. Get 3 lbs boneless, skinless chicken breasts
20. Make ready 1 navel orange (halved. One half reserved one half sliced)
21. Make ready 1/3 cup apple juice
22. Take to taste Cumin
23. Take to taste Garlic powder
24. Get to taste Salt
25. Get to taste Pepper
26. Get 3 bay leaves
27. Prepare 4 tbsp olive oil (divided)

Serve it up with a spoonful of sour cream. These Slow Cooker Chicken Carnitas are guaranteed to be your family's next go-to meal for future taco nights. Each bite will leave you craving The key to adding a satisfying crunch to slow cooker chicken carnitas is using the broiler for the final step. Set an oven rack to just below the broiler.

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. Season chicken with cumin, garlic powder, salt, and pepper. Place sliced oranges on top. Squeeze remaining orange over chicken.
8. 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.
9. Set broiler to high. Place chicken on baking sheet and drizzle with 2 tbsp olive oil. Broil for 5 minutes.
10. Remove and drizzle with remaining 2 tbsp olive oil and broil another 5 minutes.
11. Remove and serve on flour or corn tortillas with your favorite fixings. Enjoy!
12. Season chicken with cumin, garlic powder, salt, and pepper. Place sliced oranges on top. Squeeze remaining orange over chicken.
13. 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.
14. Set broiler to high. Place chicken on baking sheet and drizzle with 2 tbsp olive oil. Broil for 5 minutes.
15. Remove and drizzle with remaining 2 tbsp olive oil and broil another 5 minutes.
16. Remove and serve on flour or corn tortillas with your favorite fixings. Enjoy!

It's no secret that my love for Mexican and slow cookers runs deep. Slow Cooker Chicken Carnitas with cumin, paprika, oregano, chili powder, and lime juice have all the flavor of your favorite pork carnitas without the guilt. It is fair to say that we eat tacos at least once a week in our house, sometimes twice, and sometimes an embarrassing amount of times when there. This Slow Cooker Chipotle Chicken Carnitas recipe is a lightened up version of Chipotle Mexican Grill's pork carnitas. Great in salads, burrito bowls, and tacos, it's a versatile recipe that freezes well too.

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