Tasty Shredded Pork with Yummy Sauce
Here is a simple, make ahead and let cook all day recipes. Prep during breakfast time, place in slow-cooker and serve at the busy dinner time.
The entire family will love this dinner – you can puree the meat and sauce for baby food, shred fine for the toddlers or serve every which way and that – on pasta, rice, buns, salad, risotto, potatoes, shredded veggies, noodles etc.! Go ahead. Get messy! Eat.
- Approx 3 1/2 lb.(1.75kg) Pork Shoulder Roast
- Salt & pepper
- Vegetable oil to saute
- Diced onion
- Spoonful of jarred minced garlic
- 2 tablespoons chili powder
- 3 teaspoons ground coriander
- Bay leaf
- 1 large can (795ml) of diced tomatoes
- 1/4 cup tomato paste (or 1/4 cup ketchup)
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons vinegar
- 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
Salt and pepper the pork roast. In a dutch oven, heat vegetable oil and brown pork all over. Transfer to slow cooker.
In the hot dutch oven, saute the onions, garlic, chili powder, coriander and bay leaf until onions are softened. Add canned diced tomatoes, tomato paste or ketchup, sugar, vinegar and Worcestershire. Bring to a boil. Add this over the pork in the slow cooker.
Cover and cook on low until tender, 8 -10 hours.
When finished the pork should be very tender. Carefully transfer pork to cutting board and shred pork with two forks.
Meanwhile, if there is any fat on the liquid, skim. If wish you can boil the liquid to reduce to a thicker ‘sauce’ or just add shredded pork back into hot liquid.
Serve on rice, pasta, cooked shredded zucchini and carrots or serve on a bun as a ‘sloppy pulled pork bunwich’.
Have fun with the spices. Feel free to change the flavour by adding more spicy and zip or try some oriental flavour like Chinese 5-spice, anise, fennel etc.
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