Slow Cooked Jerk Pork with Pineapple Salsa
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Ingredients
- 3 lb boneless pork roast lean, all fat removed
- 6 cloves garlic crushed
- 1 - 3 Tbsp Jerk Seasoning I used mild
- ½ tsp kosher salt
- 1 lime squeezed
- ½ cup fresh orange juice
Pineapple Salsa:
- 1 ½ cups chopped fresh pineapple
- 1 medium red bell pepper chopped (I used 1/2 red pepper and 1/2 orange pepper)
- 6 green onions thinly sliced
- Juice from 1/2 lime
- ¼ cup chopped cilantro
- Pinch salt
- hot cooked rice for serving
Instructions
- The night before, wIth a a sharp knife, cut slits into the pork and stuff holes with 3 of the crushed garlic.
- Combine the remaining garlic, jerk seasoning, and salt, rub all over pork. Place in a gallon size and refrigerate overnight.
- In the morning, place the pork in the slow cooker with the lime and orange juice. Cook on LOW for 9 hours turning halfway through the cooking process.
- Remove pork from slow cooker and shred.
- Remove liquid from crock pot and reserve 1 cup. Add shredded pork back to the slow cooker with 1 cup reserved liquid back into the crock pot and taste for salt and pepper. Let it cook an additional 15 minutes.
- While it cooks, combine all the salsa ingredients in a bowl. Refrigerate salsa until ready to serve.
- Place pork of cooked rice and top with salsa. Serves 8.