Slow Cooker BBQ Pulled Pork

Easy peasy recipe. Massage the rub into your pork, pop in to your slow cooker, and ten hours later, amazingly tender pulled pork magically comes out ! OK there’s just one or two more steps, but honestly, it’s quick to prepare (obviously it takes a long time to actually cook, but the slow cooker does all the work for you), and delicious to eat.

Ingredients

1. Pork butt (pork shoulder) – I had 1kg but I’d recommend as much pork as you can fit in your slow cooker, as this freezes really well. Obviously adjust the ingredients below accordingly.

For the rub:

1. 1 tbls garlic powder
2. 1 tbls onion powder
3. 1 tbls sea salt
4. black pepper (as much as you can be bothered to grind)
5. pinch chilli flakes
6. pinch cayenne pepper
7. 2 tbls red wine vinegar
8. glug of olive oil
9. 2-3 tbls honey

Additional ingredients:

1. 1/4 cup brown sauce (I used HP)
2. squirt of tomato sauce

Method

1. Mix all the dry ingredients for the rub together, add the wet ingredients, to make a paste
2. Get your hands dirty and massage that paste all over your pork
3. Pop into your slow cooker for an hour on high
4. Reduce the setting to low and let the slow cooker do its magic for the next 8 hours
5. Carefully take the pork out, removing any large pieces of fat, and shred
6. Add back to the slow cooker with the brown sauce and tomato sauce for an hour
7. Serve on something that can withstand and soak up the juicy pork – like a burger bun (I had a wrap), with something crunchy and fresh like a good coleslaw