Serve this Slow Cooker Asian Pulled Pork in lettuce wraps with rice for a quick dinner!
Thanks to the Ohio Pork Council and the Ohio Soybean Council for sponsoring this post.
Hi Friends!
Lots of you have been asking for quick, easy dinner ideas now that school is back in session and nights are a little crazier. Coincidentally, I was recently asked by my friends at the Ohio Pork Council to share a simple slow cooker recipe made with pork! We eat a fair amount of pork in our house and cooking it low and slow is definitely my favorite way to do it. It’s perfect for food prep because you can easily cook a large amount and use it in a variety of ways throughout the week. Plus it freezes well, so whenever it’s on sale I buy a shoulder, cook it in the slow cooker, shred it and freeze it. Then I can pull it out to put in soups, casseroles, quesadillas, etc on busy nights!
My go-to pork recipe is to throw a pork shoulder in the crockpot (or oven) with a bottle of beer, cooked, shred and top with bbq sauce. For this recipe I decided to expand my horizons a bit and put an Asian twist on it!
This recipe is super simple. Once the meat is cooked, just shred and eat. OR, if you want to spend an extra 5 minutes on dinner, wash a few bibb lettuce leaves and cook a package of (no salt added!) 90 second rice and make some lettuce wraps like I did! You could also skip the lettuce and just serve the pork with some rice and steamed frozen veggies for a quick weeknight dinner. The possibilities are pretty much endless!
Here’s the recipe:
PrintSlow Cooker Asian Pork
A fix it and forget it slow cooker meal. Serve with quick rice and veggies or in lettuce wraps for an easy weeknight meal.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 8 hours
- Total Time: 8 hours 5 minutes
- Yield: 6-8 1x
Ingredients
- 5–6 pound pork shoulder (I use bone-in Boston butt)
- 1/4 cup low-sodium soy sauce
- 1 Tbsp fresh ground ginger
- 1/4 cup sweet thai chili sauce
- 1/2 cup orange juice
- 1/4 cup almond butter (or peanut butter)
- 3 cloves garlic
- 2/3 cup diced onion
- 1 red bell pepper, diced
Instructions
- Add chopped onion, garlic and red pepper to the bottom of a slow cooker.
- Add pork shoulder.
- In a small bowl, combine soy sauce, ginger, thai chili sauce, orange juice and almond butter and stir to combine.
- Pour over pork, cover and cook on low for 8-10 hours.
- Shred pork using two forks and serve as desired. Feel free to spoon a little of the cooking liquid over for extra flavor or top with sriracha for added spice!
I opted for a drizzle of sauce AND the sriracha topping 🙂
That’s all there is to it, friends!
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Enjoy!
–Lindsay–
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The Jewish woman LOVES THIS RECIPE.
I love slow cooker recipes and this will surely be made because we eat so much food in my household I always need quick throw together recipes like this! I have all of the ingredient too, thank you so much xo C
ok confession i’ve never made pork myself! i like to eat it just have never prepared it, but this looks easy enough!
Love how you’ve turned what can be a sort of complicated dish with lots of ingredients into a simple one you can do in the slow cooker.
This looks so good, and I’m all for “quick and easy” now that my kids are back in school! Great idea to serve in lettuce wraps too!
Yummy! This looks like it would be great for meal prepping a big batch! Pulled pork is one of my favs:)
I love finding new recipes to use in my slow cooker. These look delicious!
I just made pulled chicken in my slow cooker the other day for the first time! Pulled pork is next on my list! I need to try this! 🙂
I will be going to Chipotle, buying their cheapest non-meat bowl and coming over to get my fill.
I ALWAYS order double meat. Love the Asian twist 😀
Oh how I love that you suggested wrapping this delicious meat up in Bibb lettuce to serve. Such a genius idea with these Asian flavors!