Orange, Soy, and Honey Pulled Pork

Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 1200 min
Servings: 12
Yield: 12 servings

Description

This pulled pork is flavored with soy sauce, honey, orange juice, ginger, and garlic for an Asian-style pulled pork for the slow cooker.

Ingredients

1 cup orange juice
1/2 cup soy sauce
1/2 cup honey
1/3 cup balsamic vinegar
1 teaspoon dry mustard
1 teaspoon paprika
1/2 teaspoon hot sauce
1/4 teaspoon allspice
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
3 cloves garlic, peeled
1 (4 1/2 pound) pork shoulder roast
2 tablespoons honey, or to taste
1/2 cup brown sugar, or to taste

Directions

1 Whisk orange juice, soy sauce, 1/2 cup honey, balsamic vinegar, mustard, paprika, hot sauce, allspice, cloves, cinnamon, and ginger together in the bottom of a slow cooker; add garlic. Lay the pork shoulder roast into the orange juice mixture.
2 Cook on Low for 10 to 12 hours.
3 Turn roast over in the slow cooker, drizzle more honey over the roast, and pack brown sugar atop the pork.
4 Continue cooking another 10 to 12 hours. Shred the pork with a pair of forks in the slow cooker and mix with the liquid until even in texture.