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I’ll go ahead and admit it: Coke is one of my guilty pleasures! Drinking an ice cold Coke with friends while we watch the basketball games is just part of the our NCAA® March Madness tradition. My family usually gets together, that includes grandparents and sometimes even some cousins. We make it a pot luck event and everyone brings something to the party.
Of coarse food is a huge part of those get togethers and this year I will be making my famous carnitas. Carnitas are easy to make in the crockpot, you just leave them there overnight and forget about them until the next day when you open that crockpot to find the most delicious, melt in your mouth pork carnitas. A really important ingredient of the traditional carnitas recipe is Coke, I’m not kidding, look for Mexican carnitas recipe and you will find that they are made with Coca Cola. For this version I decided to give the recipe a twist and use the Cherry Coke and I have to say that the result was sublime!
Easy Crockpot Carnita Sopes With Cherry Coke
Ingredients
- FOR THE SOPES
- 2 cups Maseca Masa Harina
- 1¼ cup water
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- canola oil
- FOR THE CARNITAS
- 1 pork shoulder 3-4 lbs
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 Tablespoon cumin
- 1 Tablespoon salt
- 1 can of Cherry Coke
- 3 oranges
- 2 tablespoons of panela or raw sugar
- 3 Tablespoons oil
Instructions
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Mix the masa, salt and water together into a smooth consistency for about 3 to 5 minutes. If working in large amounts cover bowl with a damp towel to keep from drying out.Take a piece of the dough and roll into a firm ball. Use a tortilla press to flatten balls into small discs 4-5 inches wide. I didn’t have a tortilla press so I placed the masa ball in between two pieces of saran wrap and applied pressure with a cutting board.
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Heat up a comal or griddle and place masa patties on griddle for about 1 minute, turn and cook for about 45 seconds.
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Remove from griddle and let stand for a minute so they cool off enough for you to work with the masa, which should still be soft and malleable.
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Using your fingers form the edges up like a tart shell.
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Heat up enough canola oil to cover the sopes.
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Place sopes in oil and fry until crispy and golden brown.
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Cut the pork shoulder into roughly baseball-sized chunks.
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Combine the garlic, cumin and salt and rub over the pork chunks.
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Place the pork chunks in a slow cooker with the cherry coca-cola.
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Add the juice of the 3 oranges along with the orange peels.
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Cover, and cook on low heat for 8-10 hours.
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Heat the oil in a large skillet. Remove the carnitas from the crockpot, and fry for one or two minutes r until they are browned on the outside. If you don't want to fry them you can also break the meat into smaller using a fork, spread the carnitas on a baking sheet, place on the oven and broil 5-10 or minutes until crisp on top.
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Loosely shred the meat using a fork.
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Fill the sopes with the carnitas,
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Top with chopped avocado, crumbled queso fresco and cilantro.
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Serve warm.
Sopes bring back lots of great memories and they are ideal to serve as appetizers for a crowd because they are easy to make and provide single servings but if you don’t feel like going through the extra trouble to make the sopes this carnita recipe is delicious in sliders or on a sandwich as well.
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Estos sopes se ven maravillosos! Tienen un parecido a las arepas de Colombia!
Wow! Se ve delicioso!
que rica receta!!. Y acompañada con una coca cola, me transporta a mi país México.
Paula qué buena receta para una fiesta en la casa, muy oprtuna para cuando venga el calorcito por estos lados. Gracias!
Nunca cociné con Coca Cola, estas carnitas se ven super deliciosas. Me parece una idea original, la voy a probar. Gracias 🙂
Nunca he probado estas carnitas pero se ven super deliciosas, me llama la atención la combinación de tan diversos ingredientes, creo que me animo a prepararlas. Y si lo hago te cuento!
No sabes lo mucho que me gustan los sopes. Voy hacerlos esta semana.
Una vez (hace mucho) en Venezuela hice un Asado Negro con Coca Cola, y el resultado fue muy bueno por lo que estoy segura que esta receta es tan buena como se ve…. y bueno acompañar luego el plato con una Coca Cola bien fría es lo máximo.
Great recipe, very yummy! Any suggestions for other ways to use the left over Miso paste? Marinade? Make into another type of sauce? Ideas??? It’s too good to not use up!
“Looks yummy!
You list garlic in the ingredients list, but I don’t see where you add it to the recipe. I would guess that you add it to the partially sautéed onions?
Thanks!”