Slow Cooker Pulled Pork
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Since we started going paleo, my husband has been cooking up a storm in the kitchen. When I first met him, he wasn’t the most confident of cooks, but he’s now well away! He’s not as confident when it comes to experiment and tweaking a recipe, he does follow pretty much to the letter, but that will come in time! He found a recipe for pulled pork and decided to make it for a Sunday lunch a few weeks ago.
The original recipe says to cook the sauce separately from meat and then mix together, once the meat is cooked. But being quite the pulled pork aficionado myself (it’s a thing!) I said to do it all at once and save the faff! You’ll find the way he made this below and you can find the original recipe on Civilized Caveman Cooking. Whichever way you decide to cook this pulled pork, it will, I’m sure, be delish! We served ours in baked sweet potatoes with home made coleslaw and pickles.
Slow Cooker Pulled Pork
Ingredients
For the sauce
- 400 g tinned chopped tomatoes
- 1 onion diced
- 4 garlic cloves crushed
- 170 g tomato paste
- 230 ml beef stock
- 2 tbsp Dijon mustard
- 2 tbsp apple cider vinegar
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 2 tbsp smoked paprika
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 1 tsps cayenne pepper
- 220 g tinned pineapple diced
For the spice rub
- 4 tbsp smoked paprika
- 2 tbsp sea salt
- 2 tbsp chilli powder
- 2 tbsp ground cumin
- 1 tbsp ground black pepper
- 1 tbsps dried oregano
- 1 tbsps ground white pepper
- 2 tsp cayenne pepper
For the pulled pork
- 3.5 kg pork shoulder
- 2 white onions thinly sliced
Instructions
- Place all the sauce ingredients into a food processor or blender and whiz until smooth (ish)
- Remove and discard the thick layer of fat from the pork.
- Mix the spice rub ingredients together (except the meat!) in a bowl, and rub all over the pork.
- Place the pork in a dish and pour over the sauce. Leave to marinade for at least 3 hours (or overnight if you can.)
- Place the sliced onions into the bottom of the slow cooker. Add the marinated pork and all of the sauce. Cook on low for at least 12 hours (we cooked ours for about 18 hours!)
Nutritional information is always approximate and will depend on the quality of ingredients used and serving sizes. If you need exact calories and macros, please do your own calculations.
Sonia
June 28, 2015 @ 8:38 pm
Oh my goodness this looks so amazing! I LOVE pulled pork! Could just eat this right now x
Michelle Ordever
June 29, 2015 @ 8:11 am
I haven’t met anyone who doesn’t love pulled pork!! x
lisa prince
June 15, 2015 @ 11:50 am
wow thats a lot of ingredients but it looks worth the effort
Michelle Ordever
June 16, 2015 @ 7:55 am
Tell me about it! So many layers of flavour though!
Sarah Bailey
June 13, 2015 @ 8:04 pm
Oh wow this looks absolutely delicious – what a scrumptious meal idea. x
Beautyqueenuk
June 13, 2015 @ 7:43 pm
Now this recipe I am going to follow, I love making pulled pork x
Michelle Ordever
June 16, 2015 @ 7:56 am
Same here – it’s a relatively easy dish that you can prepare and then forget about for hours! x
Bek B
June 12, 2015 @ 11:23 pm
I’ve always fancied trying pulled pork. This sounds delicious x.
Michelle Ordever
June 16, 2015 @ 7:57 am
Check out my Hawaiian pulled pork – that’s a real winner too! x
Bek B
June 29, 2015 @ 12:00 am
Oohh…I’ll pop over there later. Sounds yummy!
angela
June 12, 2015 @ 7:19 pm
ooohhhh this sounds so so yummy will need to make this