Slow Cooker Mexican Pulled Pork Recipe 1

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Do you know what a cook lives for? The look in friends’ eyes when they’ve bitten into something you’ve made, and they’re deliriously happy about what they’re eating. Their wide-eyed smiley faces would say, “OMG, WOW,” if they weren’t so busy eating, and wanting to be polite and not talk with their mouths full. That’s the response I got from my friends when I served them tacos with this slow cooked pulled pork. Of course how could you not love tacos filled with spicy shredded pork? Best thing is that it’s crazy easy to make, especially in a slow cooker. You just rub a pork shoulder roast with a blend of ground chiles and spices, let the roast sit in that rub for a while, brown the roast and then slow cook it until it’s fall apart tender. Use a couple forks to pull it apart into tasty shreds and use the meat as a filling for tacos, tamales, or burritos. Browning the roast first will help pull out wonderful flavor from the meat as well as intensifying the spice from the chiles and cumin. If you have the kind of slow cooker that allows you to do that in the cooker pan itself, great! Then you only need one pot. Otherwise you can easily brown the pork roast on the stovetop. You can also skip the browning, though I don’t recommend it, it really does make a difference with the flavor. Updated with new photos, first posted 2013. We are using a boneless pork roast. If you use bone-in, you may need to cook the roast a little longer. You may be inclined to trim off the excess fat of the roast. I caution against trimming too much fat as it is needed for the flavor and the juicy tenderness of the pulled pork. You can always skim off some of the excess fat after the roast has cooked.