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Pulled pork (slow cooker recipe)

Oh - how I love pulled pork!
Servings:	Serves 6
Ready in:	18 hours 15 minutes
Prep. time:	12 hours 15 minutes
Cook time:	6 hours
Difficulty:

Pulled pork (carnitas) is a classic American barbecue-style dish that can just as easily be cooked in a normal domestic oven.

This recipe is basically my standard pulled pork recipe, slightly adapted for a slow cooker. I've added 150 ml of cider and the flesh of 1 grapefruit, otherwise it's the same.

Lots of recipes suggest adding a tablespoon of liquid smoke over the meat at the final stage. I prefer to leave chemicals like that in the garage! However, if you have your own smoker, I would smoke it for an hour or so before you start the cooking process.

If you like this, you will also love Cochinita pibil and Beer pickled belly of pork!

Note: This recipe needs to be prepared 24 hours in advance.

Ingredients

Ingredients

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• 1.3 kg (3 lb) boneless pork shoulder.
• 2 level teaspoons sea salt
• 3 tablespoons brown sugar
• 2 tablespoons paprika - smoked paprika if you have it.
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon powder, freshly ground if possible - see Chef's notes
• 2 teaspoons mustard powder
• 1/2 teaspoon peppercorns, ground to a powder in a coffee grinder
• 2 teaspoons chilli powder or a bunch of your favourite dried chillies, powdered
• 2 teaspoons coriander seeds, ground to a powder
• 2 teaspoons garlic powder
• 1 teaspoon ginger powder
• 250 ml cider
• 1 grapefruit, peeled, and roughly chopped

Mise en place

• If you are lucky enough to have a smoker, smoke the joint for an hour or so.
• Mix all of the spices together in a large baking tray.
• Remove and discard the rind.
• Make random slashes in the meat.
• Add all of the remaining ingredients to a large Lock and Lock box together with the pork joint. Replace the lid and shake like mad for a minute to mix the ingredients.
• refrigerate for 24 hours or so, shaking the box now and then.

Method

1. Add the contents of the Lock and Lock box to your slow cooker.
2. Cover and slow cook on low for 8 hours
3. When the pork is cooked, remove from the slow cooker and use two forks to shred the pork into tiny pieces.
4. TO BE CONTINUED

Serving suggestions

Serve with chopped salad vegetables in pitta breads.

Chef's notes

The spices in this are not an exact science. If you don't have a certain spice, use something else. Look at the individual spice links on this page or our main spice category to find similar spices that you may have instead. If you favour a certain flavour, add more of it. Mess around, be bold!!

In this recipe we are marinating the pork in the cider, rather than as a dry rub so you could just as easily add 3 or 4 peeled and crushed cloves of garlic instead of the garlic powder and a thumb-sized piece of ginger root, peeled and grated, instead of the ginger powder.

See also

• The renowned Mr Brown Pulled Pork - Oriental
• Cochinita pibil
• Beer pickled belly of pork
• Eight hour smoky pulled pork in Guinness

See also

• Our smoker recipe section