Crockpot Recipes - Easy Recipe for Slow Cooked Pulled Pork

Pulled pork is usually a nice pork shoulder or butt that is smoked for hours at a low temperature. This easy recipe infuses the pork with a pleasant, smoky barbecue flavor and aroma while slow-cooked in a slow cooker or crock pot. Since I typically add just an ample amount of liquid for my sauce so my meat does not swim in a pool of water, my pulled pork usually ends up a little saucy resulting to an incredibly moist, tasty and tender meat that just falls at the touch of a fork.

Ingredients

6 lbs. pork shoulder or pork butt, trimmed of any excess fat
1 large onion, sliced finely
1 cup ketchup
1/2 cup tomato paste
2/3 cup of apple cider vinegar, or wine vinegar
1/2 cup of brown sugar
4 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
3 tablespoons mustard
2 teaspoons paprika
3-4 pieces crushed garlic, or 1 teaspoon garlic powder
A dash of cayenne pepper
1 teaspoon salt, add more if needed
1 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
3/4 cup water

Directions

Scatter onions on the bottom of your slow cooker, or crock pot then put the pork on top so it sits on the onions. Form your barbecue sauce by whisking all remaining ingredients together in a mixing bowl. Add more pepper or salt if necessary. Pour half of the sauce over the pork. Reserve the other half. Cover and cook on Low for 8 hours maximum.

After the long cooking, remove pork from slow cooker or crock pot and transfer to a large bowl. Cut the meat into strips, or shred with a fork then put back into slow cooker. Cook further for about 5 minutes, or until meat has soaked up sauce just enough. This easy recipe for pulled pork can be held on the "warm" setting in the slow cooker, or crock pot for serving. You may serve on soft sandwich rolls, or plain rice topped with extra barbecue sauce, and a side of coleslaw for some crunch.

At one time I forgot to take the meat out of the freezer the night before to defrost, I've been able to cook the same easy recipe for pulled pork in my pressure cooker, frozen, for about 40 minutes with excellent results. You may also add a healthy dose of liquid smoke to the sauce for a stronger barbecue flavor.

Have a barbecue-filled pork month!

Chicken crock pot recipes are very popular. There are many great recipes to choose from, but with all of the options which ones do you fix for your family?

Some of the easiest crock pot recipes for chicken are of course the old standards such as chicken noodle soup or chicken stew. You can jazz your menu selection up a bit however by searching online for chicken recipes.

Once you start searching, you're going to discover that there are crock pot recipes for just about every food that can be imagined. Lasagna, pot pies, cake, breakfast, candy, pizza, Mexican...you name it, there's probably a recipe for it.

Here are some of our favorite easy recipes for chicken.' We know you're going to love them:

1 frying chicken, cut up or quartered

1 can condensed tomato soup

3/4 cup chopped onion

1/4 cup vinegar

3 tablespoons brown sugar

1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon sweet basil

1/4 teaspoon thyme

Put chicken in pot. Combine all other ingredients and pour over chicken. Cover and cook on low setting for 6 to 8 hours. Serves 4.

3-4 boneless skinless chicken breasts

2-3 cans of cream of chicken soup

1 cup of milk

4 medium potatoes

1 bag or box of frozen peas and carrots

1 small onion diced

sage, oregano, basil, parsley, paprika, ground pepper

2 packages Crescent rolls

Put Chicken breast, soup, milk, potatoes, onion and all spices into slow cooker. Cook on low for 4-6 hrs stir in a bag of carrots and peas; cook for 10-15 minutes. Put onto a pie plate. Unroll Crescent rolls and place on top of the pie. Cover the top with dough. Cook for 10-15 minutes in the oven according to crescent roll package.