Slow Cooker Puerto Rican Shredded Pork
4.6
Ingredients
- Prep
- 15 min
- Cook
- 490 min
- Total
- 525 min
Instructions
- 1 Poke 3 to 5 holes into pork roast using a sharp knife. Stuff about ½ garlic into holes.
- 2 Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add pork; brown completely, about 3 minutes per side. Transfer pork to a slow cooker.
- 3 Combine orange juice, lime juice, remaining ½ garlic, cumin, salt, and oregano in a blender; blend until smooth. Pour orange juice mixture over pork.
- 4 Marinate pork in orange juice mixture for 10 minutes; flip and marinate other side for 10 minutes.
- 5 Cover slow cooker. Cook on Low for 8 hours. Transfer pork to a cutting board; cut and discard twine. Shred pork using 2 forks.
- 6 Reserve 1 cup cooking liquid; drain and discard remaining cooking liquid from slow cooker. Return shredded pork to slow cooker, stir in reserved 1 cup cooking liquid.
- 7 Cover slow cooker. Cook on Low until pork is reheated, 15 to 20 minutes.
By Gene Payne