Slow Cooker Pork Carnitas

Here are amazing recipes for Slow Cooker Pork Carnitas, and your house will smell great when you’re cooking pork in the slow cooker. And using the slow cooker will keep the house cool when it’s heating up outside!

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This collection of recipes for Slow Cooker Pork Carnitas has amazing options for a pork dinner cooked in the slow cooker! And Carnitas are perfect any time of year, and with low-carb tortillas, these can be a low-carb meal!

These recipes from food bloggers all feature meltingly tender slow-cooked pork. Each blogger has a slightly different twist on Pork Carnitas such as crisping the meat with the broiler, using different seasonings, or making the pork into tacos.

What is Carnitas?

Carnitas means “little meats” in Spanish and this is a well-loved Mexican pork dish. And for this dish heavily marbled pork is braised or simmered for hours with seasonings until it’s so tender that it shreds apart.

How can you get the complete recipe?

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Want more slow cooker pork recipes?

• Slow Cooker or Instant Pot Kalua Pork Recipes
• Slow Cooker or Instant Pot Cafe Rio Sweet Pork Recipes
• Slow Cooker or Instant Pot Cuban Pork Recipes

Want Pork Carnitas made in the Instant pot?

If you’re an Instant Pot fan, there’s also a collection of recipes for Instant Pot Pork Carnitas on the site, so check that out as well.

Crispy Slow Cooker Carnitas from Gimme Some Oven go into the oven on a foil-lined baking sheet for extra crispness!

Slow Cooker Pork Carnitas from Sweet Basil are served inside corn tortillas with tasty Queso Fresco!

These delicious-looking Slow Cooker Pork Carnitas from the Kitchn are broiled before the tasty pork gets devoured!

Pork Carnitas from Barefeet in the Kitchen is a slow cooker recipe that gives you lots of ideas for using the tasty pork!

Pork Carnitas from Creme de la Crumb make perfect tacos, and Tiffany says she eats this pork right out of the slow cooker!

Slow Cooker Pork Carnitas from Mel’s Kitchen Cafe is a recipe that Mel calls a “weeknight dinner saver” and it certainly looks good.

More Tasty Slow Cooker Carnitas:

• Slow-Cooked Carnitas Tacos from Recipe Girl
• Crockpot Cooked Pork Carnitas from The Weary Chef
• Carnitas Shredded Pork from The Yummy Life
• Pork Carnitas from Skinnytaste
• CrockPot Pork Carnitas from Family Fresh Meals
• Easy Crockpot Carnitas from Pinch of Yum