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Carnitas Burrito Manicotti

Beans, carnitas, and cheese inside a sheet of pasta like manicotti, but rolled up like a burrito
Prep Time1 hour
Cook Time3 hours
Servings: 8 servings
Calories: 613kcal

Ingredients

carnitas

  • 2.5 pounds pork shoulder cut into 4 or 5 chunks
  • 1.5 teaspoons salt
  • 1 cup chicken broth
  • 1/4 cup orange juice
  • 1 lime (juice of)
  • 4 cloves garlic
  • 1 tablespoon cumin
  • 1 tablespoon chili powder
  • 2 teaspoons dried oregano
  • 1 teaspoon onion powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon coriander
  • 2 tablespoons honey

Pasta

  • 3 cup flour
  • 4 eggs
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil

make it

  • 1/4 cup heavy cream
  • 2 tablespoons chopped chipotle in adobo
  • 1 cup refried beans
  • 12 ounces mozzarella or chihuahua cheese
  • 1 cup salsa
  • 1 cup sour cream

Instructions

Make the pork

  • Preheat oven to 325
  • Add the pork to a baking dish and add on all the remaining ingredients. Mix together until combined.
  • Bake until tender and falling apart
  • Remove the pork from the liquid and chop it up. Add about 1/4 cup of the liquid back into the pork. Reserve the remaining liquid.

Make the pasta

  • Add the pasta ingredients to a large bowl and stir to combine. Pour onto a clean surface and knead the dough until it is uniform. Wrap with plastic and set in the fridge to rest for 30 minutes.
  • Split dough into 8 balls. Roll each dough out by hand as thin as you possibly can, into about an 8-10 inch round.

Make it

  • Preheat oven to 350
  • Mix 1 cup of the pork cooking liquid with the cream and chipotle
  • Bring a pot of water to a boil and one by one, boil the pasta about 5 minutes, flipping once in the middle of cooking.
  • When the pasta comes out of the boiling water put it on a clean work surface
  • Top with beans, cheese, pork, salsa, and sour cream. You want to use about 1/8th of the beans and pork, but less than 1/8th of the cheese so there is some for the top. Also you can adjust to personal taste.
  • Roll the pasta like it is a burrito, folding it over on itself, then folding in the sides, and rolling it the rest of the way.
  • Pour about 1/4 of the sauce on the bottom of a baking dish. Add in the pasta burritos as you go, seam side down. When you have added all the burritos, pour on the rest of the sauce, and top the whole dish with cheese.
  • Bake for about 25 minutes until cheese is melted and the sauce is bubbling around the edges.
  • Serve with morre salsa and sour cream.

Nutrition

Calories: 613kcal | Carbohydrates: 50g | Protein: 37g | Fat: 29g | Saturated Fat: 13g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 10g | Trans Fat: 0.01g | Cholesterol: 199mg | Sodium: 1325mg | Potassium: 592mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 8g | Vitamin A: 1196IU | Vitamin C: 2mg | Calcium: 324mg | Iron: 5mg