Slow Cooker Apple Butter Pulled Pork
Description
Make the day feel a whole lot better with the smell of this pulled pork in a BBQ sauce that is made with apple butter. It's delicious with the pork made in sweet and tangy sauce and served on buns that are topped with slaw. Yum!
Ingredients
1 T. olive oil
4 cloves garlic, minced
1 medium onion, diced
2 c. apple butter
1 c. apple cider vinegar
1/2 c. honey
1 c. water
2 T. paprika
3 T. spicy brown mustard
2 t. salt
2 T. Worcestershire sauce (or gluten free Worcestershire sauce)
1 T. Sriracha hot chile sauce
6-7 lb. pork shoulder roast or pork butt
buns and slaw, for serving
Directions
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Sauce:
Heat olive oil in a medium-sized saucepan over high heat; add garlic and onion; cook until just tender and fragrant, about 5 minutes. Add apple butter, apple cider vinegar, honey, water, paprika, mustard, salt, Worcestershire sauce and Chile sauce. Bring to a boil; reduce heat; simmer until the thickness of a BBQ sauce, about 15 minutes. Reserve 1 cup of the sauce for serving.
Place roast in a large slow cooker; pour remaining sauce over roast; cook on low for 8-10 hours, or on high for 6-8, or until pork is tender enough to shred.
Remove pork from slow cooker to a platter; shred pork with two forks. It can be served with the pork tossed in the sauce still in the slow cooker before placing on the bun, with less sauce or even no extra sauce at all. Make it easy by putting the sauce in a squirt bottle.
To serve, pile shredded pork on bottoms buns, then drizzle with reserved sauce, if desired and top with slaw.
16 servings.
*To freeze: Let cool, toss with sauce and then freeze in gallon-sized zip-top freezer bags. Defrost in the refrigerator overnight, and then heat in a saucepan with some water over medium heat, or microwave until warm.