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Instant Pot carnitas with tomatillo chile salsa

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Ingredients
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  • 3 lb pork shoulder butt roast
  • 5 tsp salt
  • 2 tsp black pepper
Cut the pork into about one-inch squares, pat dry and coat with 5 teaspoons salt and 2 teaspoons black pepper.
  • 2 tbsp lard
Melt 2 tablespoons lard on the pressure cooker's saute setting until hot; sear the pork in batches without crowding, a couple of minutes per side, and remove.
  • 1 lb lard
Melt 1 pound lard in the pot, scraping the bottom as it melts.
Lard, milk, aromatics and orange
  • ½ cup evaporated milk
  • ½ whole onion
  • 6 cloves garlic cloves
  • 2 whole bay leaves
Return the meat and its juices; add evaporated milk, half an onion, garlic, bay leaves, oregano, thyme, cumin and rosemary and mix.
  • 2 tsp oregano
  • 1 tsp thyme
  • ½ tsp ground cumin
  • ½ tsp rosemary
  • 1 whole orange
Squeeze in the juice of an orange and add half the peel; mix.
Cover, set to sealing, cancel saute and pressure cook 30 minutes; let sit 10 minutes.
Pressure cooking
  • 10 whole tomatillos
  • 2 whole chile moritas
  • 14 whole chile de arbol
Roast the tomatillos until charred and changing color; toast the chile moritas and chiles de arbol a few seconds until fragrant and transfer to boiling water.
  • 2 cloves garlic cloves
  • salt
Toast two garlic cloves; put tomatillos, garlic, chiles and salt in the blender cup and blend smooth.
Transfer the salsa to a bowl with chopped cilantro and onion; taste and adjust salt.
  • cilantro
  • onion
Carefully release the remaining steam, remove the carnitas and mash them up, roughly shredded.
  • tortillas
Broil 3 minutes for a crispy layer.
  • lime juice
Serve in tortillas with a squeeze of lime juice and the salsa.
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