Crockpot Recipes – Easy Recipe for Slow Cooked Pulled Pork
Maybe the month of the pig makes you want to have a barbecue. What sounds most appetizing is a super-tender textured pork meal with the flavor of real smoky barbecue: pulled pork.
Pulled pork is usually a good pork shoulder or butt that is smoked for hours on low. This easy recipe gives pork a nice smoky BBQ flavor and aroma while cooking slowly in a slow cooker or crock pot. Since I typically add only a large amount of liquid for my sauce so my meat isn’t swimming in a puddle of water, my pulled pork usually ends up a bit spicy, resulting in incredibly moist, flavorful, and tender meat that just falls flat. touch. of a fork
Ingredients
- 6 pounds pork shoulder or pork loin, trimmed of excess fat
- 1 large onion, thinly sliced
- 1 cup tomato sauce
- 1/2 cup tomato paste
- 2/3 cup apple cider vinegar or wine vinegar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 4 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- 3 tablespoons mustard
- 2 teaspoons paprika
- 3-4 pieces of crushed garlic or 1 teaspoon of garlic powder
- A pinch of cayenne pepper
- 1 teaspoon salt, add more if needed
- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground black pepper
- 3/4 cup of water
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Scatter the onions in the bottom of your slow cooker or slow cooker then place the pork on top so it sits on top of the onions. Form your barbecue sauce by whisking together all the remaining ingredients in a bowl. Add more pepper or salt if needed. For half the sauce over the pork. Reserve the other half. Cover and cook on low heat for up to 8 hours.
After extended cooking, remove the pork from the slow cooker or slow cooker and transfer to a large bowl. Cut the meat into strips or shred it with a fork, then return it to the slow cooker. Cook further for about 5 minutes, or until the meat has sufficiently absorbed the sauce. This easy pulled pork recipe can be kept on the “warm” setting in the slow cooker or crock pot to serve. You can serve it on soft sandwich rolls or plain rice topped with extra barbecue sauce and a side of coleslaw for a bit of crunch.
At one point I forgot to take the meat out of the freezer the night before to defrost, I have been able to cook the same easy pulled pork recipe in my pressure cooker, frozen, for about 40 minutes with great results. You can also add a healthy dose of liquid smoke to the sauce for a stronger barbecue flavor.
Have a month full of BBQ pork!
