Show of hands for those of us that are here for Taco Tuesday? I LIVE FOR IT. My kids do too.
This recipe is no fail. It’s made with minimal ingredients, uses good old fashioned Coca Cola, and cooks in your slow cooker all day, giving you minimal work. If you want to get all precious with it and use your own homemade special spice blend that you made specifically for tacos using overpriced spices and the tears of angels then go ahead on your merry way. The rest of you are welcome at my table.
Ingredients:
One 3-5# pork butt. (It’s actually the shoulder, but technicalities).
One onion, diced
8 cloves garlic, minced
2 limes, juiced
2 oranges, juiced
1 Tbsp. Oregano
1 Tbsp. Cumin
3 Bay leaves
8 oz. Coca Cola
Salt and Pepper
Directions:
- Sear the sides of your pork butt. I have the word’s bougiest slow cooker, so I can sear it directly in the slow cooker, and then turn it to low. You can always just sear your meat in a dutch oven or cast iron skillet and then transfer it to your own peasant style crock pot.
- Add the rest of the ingredients to the slow cooker, turn it on low, and walk away. Make that slow cooker WORK FOR YOU.
- After around 7-8 hours, the meat should be falling apart. Remove it from the slow cooker, transfer it to a bowl, and shred it. Then put it onto a sheet pan with all of the juices from the slow cooker and stick it under a broiler until it gets nice and crispy. This is not the part that you want to skip, and I will remind you that there is no half stepping in the Rahz kitchen.
- Build your tacos. I like mine with guacamole, cilantro, and a squeeze of lime.
- Pour any leftover Coca Cola that you have into a tall glass with ice and enjoy your amazing Taco Tuesday.
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