Slow Cooker Island Pulled Pork
Yield: 8 servings
This Slow Cooker Island Pulled Pork offers an easy recipe for fork-tender pork with a wonderful twist of island-inspired flavors!
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.
Notes
Recipe comes from Jill Holland, Sous Chef of Catering for Good and Chef Instructor of Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida. Printed with permission.
Nutrition Information:
Serving: 1 Calories: 524kcal Carbohydrates: 15g Protein: 41g Fat: 33g Saturated Fat: 12g Polyunsaturated Fat: 17g Cholesterol: 146mg Sodium: 628mg Fiber: 1g Sugar: 8g
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