The slow cooker shoulder is a delicious way to enjoy this tasty cut of pork.
Add all the ingredients to the slow cooker in the morning, and six to eight hours later, you’ll be enjoying a soft, tender pork shoulder dinner.
How to cook pork shoulder in a slow cooker
Pork shoulder is an inexpensive pork cut that is ideal for slow cooking
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It is often used as the preferred joint when making slow-cooker shredded pork; When cooked long enough, it is easily “separated”.
What you need:
For more concise recipe instructions and to print them out, head over to the recipe card at the bottom of this post!
- Pork shoulder – any size; I used one that weighed 1.8 kg
- teaspoons of his favorite pork seasoning: I used 1 teaspoon of each of the mixed seasonal and dried herbs
- bay leaves, dried or fresh (we have a bay leaf in the garden, so it’s pretty easy to pick them fresh!
- 6 cloves garlic
- 2 onions
- 400 ml chicken broth – alternatively use vegetables or, if you can get it, pork broth
- Sauce granules or cornmeal: optionally, you can add some sauce granules at the end to make a tasty sauce
- – you can use any type of slow cooker; I used a Morphy Richards
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Making It:
Rub your choice of seasoning over the pig shoulder joint
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Add all remaining ingredients to the slow cooker. Place the lid on top and simmer for 6 to 8 hours.
At the end of the cooking time, check that the pork is cooked: if you have a meat thermometer, the internal temperature should be 75 ° C.
Do you need to add liquid to slow pot pork shoulder?
No, you can put the pork shoulder in the slow cooker without any liquid. During the slow cooking time, pork will naturally release its own juices.
For this recipe, I
like to add the broth; this helps ensure that the pork shoulder is soft and tender, and I can use the liquid at the end to make a sauce/sauce to serve over the pork.
How to make a sauce or sauce from
juices
You have two options for making sauce or
sauce with the liquid at the end of the cooking time.
When the pork is ready, carefully remove the joint and let it rest (or put it in the oven to make pork crackling, see below the steps to do so).
Add
some granules of sauce (or cornmeal) Leave the rest of the sauce in the slow cooker and
remove any fat; Remove the bay leaves
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Add some granules of salsa or cornmeal to thicken it. Return
the
sliced pork to the slow cooker and dip
it in the sauce.
The downside to this method is that you’ll still have some excess pork fat in the sauce, which could make it a little greasy, and also, if you’re crunching the pork fat crust, the sauce could get too cold before it’s time to serve.
As a side note, I used this method, and it wasn’t too greasy and tasted amazing! No additional seasoning was required.
Strain the liquid and simmer in a pan The other option, and the
most common method, is to remove the bay leaves, mix the liquid with a blender and strain the liquid into a saucepan
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Add some cornmeal (or sauce granules) to thicken it, and simmer while you wait for the crunchy crunch or pork to rest before cutting.
After a quick taste taste, you may want to add a little more seasoning to the sauce
. Can you put raw pork in a slow cooker? Yes, you can
put raw pork directly in a slow cooker
. It rarely seals or separately browns the meat before adding it to the slow cooker, mainly due to the extra time it creates and the washing it creates.
My main exceptions to this are when I slowly cook sausages (like in my slow cooker sausage casserole recipe) and slow cooker dumplings
. How to get crispy pork cracklings
Understandably, the fat from the pork shoulder joint will not crunch in the slow cooker to make crispy pork rinds
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But the good news is that you can still get a crispy pork crackling by adding an extra step.
Approximately 10 to 15 minutes before the end of the slow cooker time, preheat the oven
to 220 ° C / Mark 9 gas
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You can also do this step in an air fryer: preheat for 3 minutes.
When the pork shoulder is cooked in the slow cooker, you can put the whole joint in the oven (or air fryer) or carefully remove the grease from the joint and crispy by Yes alone.
I prefer to cook the cracked pork on its own, leaving the loose joint covered in aluminum foil to rest before cutting it.
If you choose to place the entire pork joint in the oven, loosely cover the meat part of the joint with aluminum foil so that it does not dry out.
Either way, you need to mark the fatty crust with a sharp knife, brush the oil over it and rub salt all over.
Place in the oven for 30 to 40 minutes or until it has bubbled and is crispy.
In an air fryer, it should take about 20 minutes.
What to serve with pork
shoulder
We enjoyed this slow cooker pork shoulder recipe with some roasted potatoes and green vegetables. You can also serve it with mashed potatoes or rice.
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