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They're all mostly the same. A decent amount of water, cubed protein, bay leaf, salt and other common things like oregano, cumin garlic, onion, chili powders maybe lime juice and some chicken stock/broth.

The carnitas take an extra step when I drain the liquid and put the meat/fat into a ceramic non stick pan with bacon grease or lard (I cut off fat purely to render down in a pot to make oil. I need the extra oil for the refried beans and frying tortillas) to crisp them up. My fav meal by far. Side of guac ofc.

As another example, for Barbacoa, you add tomato paste which thickens it up to be more like a gravy.

Only complaint is that since moisture doesn't escape, the whole dish is very runny. So you can either try to strain some fluid or put the whole stainless pot on a burner and reduce it.

But if you reduce, that takes heat which could over cook the meat so if you know you'll reduce it, undercook it in the instapot imo.