Slow cooked pork, fork-tender and saturated with flavor, is one of my favorite dishes of all time. Today I’m sharing this wonderful Slow Cooker Island Pulled Pork recipe from Jill Holland, Chef Instructor at Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida. This recipe is included in the just released slow cooker cookbook “Where Slow Food and Whole Food Meet”, a labor of love that has been put together by my friends Christine and Jennifer, with brand new recipes contributed from an amazing group of food bloggers. Together, we are sharing our best slow cooker recipes and raising awareness for September’s Hunger Action Month with Feeding America. Won’t you please join us?
Over 30 food bloggers teamed up to put together a cookbook full of delicious, affordable slow cooker recipes.
My Slow Cooker Balsamic Orange Roast Beef is included in this new cookbook. You seriously don’t want to miss this recipe!
Slow cooker food means comfort food. Warm and delicious meals to satisfy our hunger.
This Slow Cooker Island Pulled Pork offers a lovely twist of island inspired flavors that my entire family approves of. I had never before made a rub that incorporated freshly grated ginger, and it’s absolutely wonderful with the cloves and other spices involved.
With just a bit of a kick, this pulled pork recipe is a definite keeper. I especially like to eat the tender, juicy pork on a buttered and grilled bun, with a slathering of sauce – I quickly mixed up some mustard, BBQ sauce, and honey for this meal. With a side of my mom’s sweet refrigerator dill pickles, this meal is complete perfection.
Slow Cooker Island Pulled Pork
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon onion powder
- 1 tablespoon garlic powder
- 2 teaspoons grated fresh ginger
- 1½ teaspoons ground cloves
- 1½ teaspoons ground allspice
- 1½ teaspoons thyme
- 1½ teaspoons dry mustard
- 1½ teaspoons coarse salt
- 1 teaspoon sweet or hot paprika
- ½ teaspoon cumin
- ½ teaspoon sugar
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
- ¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 3 pounds boneless pork butt
- 1 cup apple cider or apple juice
- 1 bay leaf
- soft hamburger buns, sliced in half (For extra deliciousness, butter the buns and grill or griddle until golden.)
- your favorite BBQ sauce (OR: I recommend mixing some Barbecue Sauce with some prepared yellow mustard and a bit of honey!)
- your favorite pickles (I recommend my mom's Refrigerator Sweet Pickles for this recipe!)
Instructions
- In a small bowl combine onion powder, garlic powder, cloves, ginger, allspice, thyme, dry mustard, salt, paprika, cumin, sugar, black pepper, and cayenne. Use fingers to rub spices together to ensure that ginger is dispersed throughout. Rub spice mixture all over the pork.
- Pour apple cider into slow cooker, then add pork with fat side up. Add bay leaf.
- Cook on low for 8 hours, or until perfectly fork-tender and shreddable. Remove pork from slow cooker to a large cutting board and use two forks to shred meat.
- Skim fat off the liquids in slow cooker and discard. Drizzle a few tablespoons of the remaining juices over the shredded meat and fold to combine.
- Serve pulled pork on a sliced bun as-is (a buttered and grilled bun is awesome!) or slathered with your favorite BBQ sauce.
What a great cause! These pork looks amazing! It makes me realize I need a little more pulled pork in my life :)
Adding these ingredients to my list for this week’s shopping trip! Must make this soon!
What a great idea for a cookbook. Loving this island flare!
Its a wonderful project that you all are involved in. I am moved by it.
Your dish looks fantastic! Thank you so much for doing this, and for including us in the project. It is our pleasure to support such a worthy cause.
Keep it green,
–Your friendly Southern California farmers at San Miguel Produce / Cut ‘N Clean Greens / Jade Asian Greens
Thanks for stopping by and thanks for supporting this cause, lovely to hear from you!
None of the Recipe links above here work :/
Hi Tracey – are you talking about the list of recipes from other bloggers? I can’t find one that doesn’t work. ??
Oh wow! What an amazing sounding cookbook! I can’t wait to break out my slow cooker again :)
This is my kind of dinner! So delicious!
The pork looks fantastic, Brenda! I have a slow cooker recipe coming up this week, too. ‘Tis the season! Awesome giveaway, too!
The recipe sounds and looks awesome. So happy your recipe is
included in the cookbook.
Thank you for the lovely recipe.
Love this recipe, Brenda. And what a great cause!
Thank you so much for being a part of this project, Brenda. Your recipe looks so good!
This pulled pork recipe looks delicious! Will have to try it.
This spice mix looks incredible. Slow-cooker meals are some of my favorites:)
I make a version of pulled pork, not as many spices as this, It’s time for me to change.
This version is really very different than any other I’ve made. I love that fresh ginger in the rub, plus the wide array of spices. Just plain lovely. I hope you give it a try!
Fabulous recipe for a fabulous cause! I love this Brenda, and slow cooker pulled pork is a sure-fire hit at our house.
This looks incredible!
Wow, that pork looks so good and I love the idea of that cookbook. Perfect timing for the cooler weather too!
I’m so excited about this cookbook for lots of reasons including getting to know more wonderful and generous fellow food bloggers like you. Here’s to raising lots of money and helping to get food to those who need it!