Slow Cooker Chipotle Pork
A slow cooker pork shoulder recipe with a secret ingredient … Coca-Cola!
- Prep Time: 10 min
- Cook Time: 8 hours
- Total Time: 8 hours 10 minutes
- Yield: 12 servings 1x
- Category: Main DIsh
- Method: Slow Cooker
- Cuisine: Mexican
Ingredients
Scale
- 10 lb Whole Pork Shoulder (ask the butcher to cut the full pork shoulder in half at the meat counter)
- 4 cloves crushed garlic
- 2 medium yellow onions, chopped
- 2 tsp kosher sea salt
- 1 tsp black pepper
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- 1 tsp ground sage
- ½ tsp paprika
- 1 – 7 oz. can of La Morena Chipotle Chiles in Adobo Sauce
- 2 – 7.5 oz. cans of Coca-Cola
- 3 cups of water
Instructions
- Trim the any excess fat from the pork shoulder. Place the pork shoulder in a slow cooker crock.
- Add salt, black pepper, ground cumin, ground sage, and paprika. Rub the spices into the pork shoulder with your hands.
- Add 1 ½ chopped yellow onions and 2 cloves of crushed garlic.
- Place the remaining onion and crushed garlic into a blender with one 7 oz. can of La Morena Chipotle Chiles in Adobo Sauce. Blend until smooth.
- Pour the mixture on top of the pork shoulder.
- Pour two 7.5 oz. cans of Coca-Cola into the slow cooker crock.
- Pour 3 cups of water into the slow cooker crock.
- Turn the slow cooker to “low” for 7 to 8 hours or until the meat breaks apart with a fork.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cup
- Calories: 599
- Sugar: 5.9
- Sodium: 289.3
- Fat: 32.1
- Saturated Fat: 0
- Unsaturated Fat: 0
- Trans Fat: 0
- Carbohydrates: 7.9
- Protein: 74.3
- Cholesterol: 253.3
