Asian Pulled Pork Crock-Pot recipe
The Crock-Pot is my BFF on days when the kids have after school activities. This Asian Pulled Pork Crock-Pot recipe is versatile with rice for dinner and leftovers in slider buns for lunch the next day. I buy a 4-5lbs pork shoulder roast (bone in) to feed our family of five with leftovers. Like all IttyBittyFoodies recipes, prep time is minimal. This recipe consists of simply seasoning and searing the pork before letting the Crock-Pot do it’s magic. Slow cooking is a wonderful way to make flavorful meals out of tougher cuts of meat. By the dinner time, the meat is tender and falls off the bone. Allow about 8 hours when cooking on low or 5 hours on high in the Crock-Pot.
Ingredients:
4-5lb pork shoulder roast (bone in)
1 tsp Kosher salt
1 tsp ground black pepper
1 tsp 5 Spice powder
2 tbs soy sauce (low sodium)
1 dash of sesame oil
1 tsp grapeseed oil.
Seared and ready for the Crockpot (photo by www.ittybittyfoodies.com)
Method:
In a small bowl, mix salt, pepper and 5 Spice powder. Rub the dry spice mix generously over the pork shoulder. In a non stick skillet, heat grapeseed oil on high. Sear the pork, about 1 minute each side till brown. Place pork in Crockpot, add the soy sauce and sesame oil and cook. Allow 8 hours when cooking on low or 5 hours on high in the Crockpot. Turn once in the middle of cooking. When ready, the pork should be falling off the bone. Pull the pork using two forks and serve with rice. Leftovers can be put into sliders for school lunch next day.
Pulled pork leftovers make a good school lunch in slider buns (photo by www.ittybittyfoodies.com)
This post is dedicated to my sister in law, Teena who just got herself a Crockpot for her twin IttyBittyFoodies.
Till our next Happy Meal!
Cheryl Collett is freelance journalist and a mom on a mission to expand her kids’ palates. IttyBittyFoodies chronicles their yummy adventures.
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Thanks Cheryl! Sounds delicious and we will definitely be trying it!
That sounds delicious. I loved pulled pork.
I love slow cooker recipes! This one looks both easy and delicious!
This would have been perfect for the roast I made last night! I’ll have to try this next time!!
Oh this looks delicious! Have you checked out the Ziploc slow cooker liners? Love those
This looks delicious. I like the way you presented it with the Pictures. Great Post
I love my crockpot as well and this looks so good, thank you for sharing
my kids love pulled pork sandwiches, this is a nice twist to they way we typically do it.
I love cooking in my crockpot and so glad that I NOW have a new recipe to try!! Thanks!!
Love crock-pot dishes. This looks amazing, there are so many different things you could use the leftovers for too!
I enjoy a good pulled pork sandwich. i can’t seem to get my meat tender enough! This looks yummy!
My husband woudl love this recipe. Going to try it soon.
What an awesome-looking recipe. I love crock pot dishes, makes things easy when working from home (and makes everything smell fantastic too!)
This kind of dinner is just what the dr. ordered for my hubby. My teen loves pulled pork too!
I love pulled pork. This looks awesome.
I really need to use my crock pot more, it’s so easy but I never have any idea what to make in it. This would be great, though!
How yummy. I really like slow cooker meals they make cooking so much easier.
This crock pot meal looks delicious. Pinning for later!
This looks delicious! I need to use my slow cooker more often.
This sounds like a delicious and easy to cook meal. I enjoy using my slow cooker to make family meals.
That looks really healthy and delicious! I love the extra green inside! Plus it looks really tender!
This looks yummy. I just made pulled pork the other day. Used something I got from the grocery store and it didn’t look as delicious as yours.
Being from the South, I love BBQ (and pulled pork is King in the South) and I love using my smoker. Now being in a Filipino family, they love their Lechon. But buying an entire roast pig is expensive. So I’ve managed to combine the two, using my smoker, spices similar to the ones in your recipe, and a pork butt. This way we can have the taste of Lechon but in a more reasonable size and price. In fact, I’m inspired to go add my Pulled Pork recipe to one of my blogs!