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Slow Cooker Beer Pulled Pork

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Making pulled pork is as simple as putting the pork roast in the slow cooker and letting it cook all day omitting wonderful fragrances into your home. With many options out there for flavouring your pork, it really comes down to preference, ingredients on hand and what flavours appeal to you. For example husband had some Village Brewery Blacksmith (beer) hanging around. I had a pork roast. We married the two with some spices and new a pulled pork recipe was born. I purposely kept the flavours simple as I wanted to have leftover pork for pork carnitas the next day. This is why the barbecue sauce in this recipe is served on the side.

Slow Cooker Beer Pulled Pork
Slow Cooker Beer Pulled Pork

Since I’m trying to be more organized with my meals, my motto for this year is cook once and stretch it into 2-3 meals. We typically make Braised Pork in the oven, however nothing beats getting your meat and/or ingredients ready, set into the slow cooker and the refrigerator the night before, to bring it out and on the next morning.

Beer Pulled Pork in the Slow Cooker

Looking forward to enjoying leftover pork tomorrow in these Pork Carnitas. We “pulled”, get it pulled?! a third meal out of this dish by making Pulled Pork Mac and Cheese. A little went a long way!

Slow Cooker Five Spice Chicken

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Slow Cooker Five Spice Chicken is so full of flavour you will be adding it to your regular dinner routine after the very first bite!

Five Spicke Chicken with Bok Choy
Five Spicke Chicken with Bok Choy

Slow Cookers or Crockpots are one of the best small appliances out there for getting dinner ready while you are working or otherwise busy.

Flavour in the Brown

Heard the term Flavour in the Brown before? So much truth here. Searing your meat builds flavour and texture by caramelizing the meat. We always brown our chicken when making this recipe for added flavour.

Browned Five Spice Chicken
Browned Five Spice Chicken

As Simple As 1, 2, 3

A few ingredients make this a really tasty dish. Have all your ingredients ready to go so all you have to do is brown the chicken, add the chicken to your slow cooker, add the remaining ingredients and turn it on to low and slow.

Veggies in with the Five Spice Chicken
Veggies in with the Five Spice Chicken

Serving Suggestions

We top this Slow Cooker Five Spice chicken with fresh parsley, some sliced green scallions or a little chopped bok choy mixed with olive oil, vinegar, salt and pepper. Bok Choy is a bitter Chinese green we’ve been cooking with for 30 years. Interested in learning more about Bok Choy check out Five Ways to Eat Bok Choy.

Serve with rice or egg noodles. If there are leftovers remove the chicken meat from the bones and use the next day to make soup, quesadillas, chicken salad or a sandwich. This meal then becomes one meal, eat twice.

Five Spice Chicken with parsley
Five Spice Chicken with parsley

One of my favourite salads to eat is a raw bok choy salad introduced to me back in the 90’s. Today my family loves this salad as much as I do and it’s one everyone should try if you venture into bitter greens.

Here’s a few more recipes to get you started on bok choy and slow cooker cooking.