Rick's Pulled Pork
I use my crock pot to make pulled pork. I also find it much easier to use a crock pot liner, too.
6 pound piece pork loin
1 bottle Ginger soda (I use Trader Joe's Triple Ginger Brew)
4 Bay leaves
4 Allspice berries
- Put liner into crock and turn heat to high
- Trim fat from pork loin and cut into pieces about 2 inches thick.
- Lay pieces of pork in crock, layering if necessary
- Pour in enough soda to cover
- Add bay leaves and allspice berries
- Cover crock and go away for about 5 hours
After about 5 hours, the pork should be fall-apart tender.
Now, here's where the crock liner comes into play...
Place a large colander into a larger bowl. CAREFULLY lift line from crock pot and slowly pour contents into the colander. KEEP THE LINER!
Using tongs, take the pieces of pork from the colander and place back into the liner. loosely close the liner and break up the pieces of pork with your hands. REMEMBER.... IT'S HOT ! ! ! !
Once it's broken up, you can return the liner/pork to the crock to keep warm. Turn the crock off and put the lid on. When your ready to serve, you can let people get their own pork from the crock and sauce it how ever they like.
Now, back to that large bowl of hot juices. Allow it to cool to that the fat congeals on the top. Remove the fat, and you have a basic pork-flavored stock that you can use for just about anything. Adjust the seasoning accordingly, cook it down to concentrate it, what ever!
