Tostadas with THE BEST Slow Cooker Salsa Verde Carnitas

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Prep Time: 30 minutes

Servings: 8

Tostadas with THE BEST Slow Cooker Salsa Verde Carnitas

Ingredients

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Instructions

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Step 1

Trim fat off meat and pat dry.

Step 2

Cut into chunks, 3-4 inches long. (This helps the pieces be shorter later like carnitas.)

Step 3

Season liberally all over with season-salt and sear on all sides in a hot pan with cooking spray to lock in flavor. Get a nice brown crust on it.

Step 4

Move to a crock pot and cover with the salsa, garlic, and onion and cook for 4-6 hours or until tender. Shred it and toss in juices.

Step 5

***You can either use the meat like this, or spread it on a pan and bake at 350 for about 15 minutes to get some crispy pieces, more like authentic carnitas. OR... my favorite way (especially with the leftovers) is just crisp up as much as you need in a hot fry pan.  Quicker than the oven and SOO good when it gets a good brown on it!  For the Quick Fat-Free Chipotle Sour Cream (update: it's since earned it's own blog post so if you want more details it's linked here.)

Step 6

Blend 1-2 chipotle peppers and 1-2 tbs of it's adobo sauce (bought near other canned mexican food like green chilis etc) with 1/2 cup fat free sour cream. Chop and mix in, or blend with blender.

Step 7

Spray a medium- hot pan with cooking spray and spray your EXTRA thin mission tortillas with a quick mist and sprinkle with kosher salt. Cook till nice and crispy on each side…. Just took a few minutes. Let rest on a paper towel lined plate. ( I didn’t use mine for like an hour and they were great! So no rush here. You can even make them ahead!)

Step 8

Now Top three tostadas with thin layer of refried beans (I did a tiny bit because I didn’t have tons of carbs- about 8 grams on each), 130 g carnitas, and 5 grams of cotija cheese.

Step 9

Bake at 400 for a few minutes … just long enough to warm it all back up if it wasn’t already and liven up the cotija a little.

Step 10

Pull them out and top all three combined with: 40 g lettuce, 60 g pico, 20 g mango, 30 g avocado, cilantro, 10 g homemade fat free chipotle sour cream, and 15 g cilantro lime ranch. (Or you can use Bolthouse cilantro avocado.)

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