Crockpot Carnitas

I made these pork carnitas a few days ago, and they were so amazing I feel the need to share the recipe! Keep in mind, cooking is more of an art than a science, so most of these measurements are approximate. :)

What you need:

• 1 pork tenderloin (mine was about 1.3 pounds)
• 1.5 oranges halved
• 1/2 onion finely diced
• 1 jalepeno pepper de-seeded & de-ribbed
• About 3 teaspoons of oregano
• About 2 tablespoons of cumin (awesome metabolism booster!)
• About 2 teaspoons of chili powder
• Salt & pepper
• 1 cup of water
• About 3 tablespoons of olive oil
• About 2 tablespoons of lime juice
• Chipotle sauce to taste
• Enough olive oil to cover the bottom of a large pan
• Tortillas
• Avocado
• I also think cilantro would be a nice addition, but I did not have any when I made this

What to do:

1. Rinse off the tenderloin. (I always get individually packaged tenderloins & I just feel like it's weird to have stuff in plastic for a while. I might just have OCD.)
2. Add onion & pepper into crockpot
3. Drizzle the olive oil over the tenderloin in your crockpot.
4. Sprinkle salt & pepper & other seasonings directly onto the tenderloin.
5. Squeeze juice out of oranges into the pot & leave the oranges in there.
6. Add water to crockpot.
7. Cook on low (for ~6.5 hours) or keep warm (for ~8 hours or more) or hot (for probably ~4 hours)
8. When you have about an hour (or a half hour) left in the crock pot, start to put the tenderloin apart with a fork.
9. Take out the orange peels. Add the chipotle sauce & stir
10. When the pulled pork has absorbed the water & seasonings to your liking, remove pork from the pot & put into oiled pan. Press pork into bottom of pan
11. Cook on medium until the bottom layer begins to get crispy. Or don't. This isn't totally necessary & hanger is a real emotion. :)
12. Put together tacos anyway you'd like & get your feast on!