Dinner BY:Mireille PUBLISHED: 08/14/2020 UPDATED: 01/29/2024

Mexican Pork Carnitas Tacos

Warm soft tortillas piled up high with pork carnitas are the best taco ever. So have some Mexican slow cooker pulled pork on standby!

Warm tortillas piled high with slow cooked pork carnitas are the best tacos! These Mexican pork carnitas are great to serve on taco night

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You never know when you are going to need it but you can never have enough pork carnitas in your fridge or freezer. So easy to make as your slow cooker does all the work. So, are you ready to learn how to make Mexican pork carnitas tacos? Let’s get started!

What You Need For This Recipe

To make these pork carnitas tacos you need several ingredients. Make sure you have the following ready when you start:

Tortillas – we are using small flour tortillas
Pork carnitas
Avocado – dice the avocado
Salsa – you can buy a salsa or make roasted tomato salsa yourself
Scallion – finely slice
Red onion – finely dice
Parsley – use fresh parsley

Note that the full ingredients list, including measurements, can be found in the recipe card below.

How To Make Mexican Pork Carnitas Tacos

Prepare the pork carnitas as described in the recipe or use leftover pork carnitas. Finely chop the red onion and finely slice your scallion while you preheat your oven to 400℉/200℃.
Take an oven dish to stack the small flour tortillas. Start with a homemade flour tortilla add the pork carnitas, sprinkle diced red onion, and sliced scallion, and finish with a tablespoon of red tomato salsa.
Wrap the oven dish with aluminum foil and warm for 12 minutes. Then take the foil from the oven dish and warm for another 2 minutes.
Finely chop the fresh parsley and sprinkle it on top of the tacos. Decorate the Mexican pork carnitas tacos with slices of avocado.
Serve immediately.

The Best Mexican Pork Taco Dinner Recipe

There should always be a serving of this slow cooker pork carnitas in your freezer. The best slow-cooked seasoned pork, succulent, shredded, and crisped up to be stuffed into a warm, preferably homemade, tortilla.

It will make your day so much better. The pork carnitas recipe is very easy because you just put all the ingredients in your Instant Pot, slow cooker, or Dutch oven.

You just turn it on and you can go about your way. If you own an Instant Pot or Crockpot Express, get it out of the box today and start cooking with it.

Your food tastes so much more amazing and bye-bye to tough and chewy beef. Did you know you can use your Instant Pot to proof your dough?

Yes, it cut the first proof in half so if you are a bread baker and own an Instant Pot something is worth a try. But back to the carnitas.

Buy a big piece of pork shoulder, prep it in advance, freeze it up in portions, and use it when you need it. Your taco nights will never be the same.

When you freeze the carnitas make sure you add the gravy sauce to every freezer package.

Pork Carnitas Tacos Topping Options

Just the pork carnitas with a warm soft taco can be enough and a meal all in itself but you can take your tacos to the next level.

Just add some of these great taco toppings:

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