{"id":243632,"date":"2010-07-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/true-carnitas-are-hot-from-michoacan-in-city-heights\/"},"modified":"2010-07-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T07:00:00","slug":"true-carnitas-are-hot-from-michoacan-in-city-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/true-carnitas-are-hot-from-michoacan-in-city-heights\/","title":{"rendered":"True carnitas are hot from Michoacan in City Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Marden Abadi
\nSpecial to Uptown News
\n<\/strong>
\nThink you know your carnitas? Think again!<\/p>\n

\"True<\/a>
Las Morelianas\u2019 carnitas are accompanied by condiments such as tomatillo salsa verde made with fresh avocado and frijoles made with real manteca. (Courtesy Marden Abadi)<\/figcaption><\/figure>Carnitas were born in the state of Mexico known as Michoacan, and Morelia is the city known for carnitas in Michoacan. (Hence \u201cLas Morelianas\u201d\u2014the guys from Morelia.) In the \u201960s, my father took us to Ensenada and on the way we stopped at an estancia off the road, and I tasted my first carnitas. (Yes, it was as good as that first kiss!) Since then, I have never been able to duplicate that experience anywhere. Simply put, kosher-\u201cstyle\u201d is not kosher\u2014and carnitas-\u201cstyle\u201d is not carnitas. <\/p>\n

When you walk into Las Morelianas, you will be greeted by the owner, Fermin Guevara, and his associate, German Gascar. A kindly lady named Paz is preparing the stone ground masa to make the fresh tortillas (flour, corn) on a special skillet without oil. Ranchera music is blaring on the jukebox and the small restaurant appears very colorful and clean. <\/p>\n

True carnitas involves roasting a 100-pound pig in a special underground oven. I like buying the carnitas freshly made by the pound and preparing my own carnitas (a 4\u00bd-pound whole shank feeds 10 people). The carnitas are accompanied by very special condiments not available in any other Mexican restaurant I know of\u2014tomatillo salsa verde made with fresh avocado and frijoles made with real manteca. You can also enjoy traditional condiments\u2014such as cilantro, onion, carrots, jalapenos, serranos, adobado and fresh slices of avocado\u2014to seal the experience. <\/p>\n

Carnitas are sold for $9.50 a pound and includes frijoles, tortillas and salsa. Those wanting to order from the extensive menu may help themselves to tacos ($2-$2.75), burritos ($4.25-$5.65), tortas ($4.50-$5.50), mariscos ($9-$14.99), mariscos caldos ($6-$11), tostadas ($2.50-$4), mariscos platillos ($11.99-$12.99), antojitos ($1.50-$6.25), combinaciones ($6-$7.50), platillos ($2.99-$18), breakfast burritos ($3.25-$4.50), specialty breakfasts ($3.50-$7.99), ensaladas ($3.75-$7.50), a kid\u2019s menu, desserts, imported beer ($2-$3.50) and handmade margaritas and pi\u00f1a coladas ($3.99).<\/p>\n

Be warned: the portions are huge and every dish is a meal by itself! <\/p>\n

Las Morelianas
\n3645 University Ave.
\nCity Heights
\n521-2891
\nHours: 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Marden Abadi Special to Uptown News Think you know your carnitas? Think again! Carnitas were born in the state of Mexico known as Michoacan, and Morelia is the city known for carnitas in Michoacan. (Hence \u201cLas Morelianas\u201d\u2014the guys from Morelia.) In the \u201960s, my father took us to Ensenada and on the way we […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1324,"featured_media":243633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11555","_seopress_titles_title":"True carnitas are hot from Michoacan in City Heights","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11551,11555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uptown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}