Slow Cooker Heaven Pomegranate Pork Roast Recipes

SLOW COOKER HEAVEN: POMEGRANATE PORK ROAST

Steps:

• 1. PREP/PREPARE
• 2. Gather your ingredients.
• 3. Add the pomegranate juice to a small saucepan.
• 4. Chef's Note: Simmer until reduced by half, about 15 to 20 minutes.
• 5. Chef's Note: The saucepan that I am using is called a "reduction pan." The sides of a reduction pan slope outward, like an inverted pyramid, and this helps in evaporation.
• 6. While the pomegranate juice is reducing, coat the pork roast with the olive oil.
• 7. Generously sprinkle salt and pepper over the roast.
• 8. Place the roast in a skillet over medium-high heat.
• 9. Brown on all sides, about 2 minutes per side, and reserve.
• 10. After the pomegranate juice has reduced, add the honey, lemon juice, zest, garlic, and brown sugar, to the saucepan.
• 11. Stir to incorporate all the ingredients.
• 12. Pour the pomegranate sauce into the slow cooker, and then add the pork roast.
• 13. Cook on low for 4 to 6 hours (you can't burn it), until it is fork tender.
• 14. PLATE/PRESENT
• 15. Remove roast from slow cooker and allow the roast to rest for 10 minutes.
• 16. Slice into generous slices, drizzle with the sauce, and serve with your favorite sides. Enjoy.
• 17. Keep the faith, and keep cooking.

SLOW COOKER ROAST

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium-high heat. Sear roast in hot oil until browned completely, about 2 minutes per side.
• Spread potatoes into the bottom of the slow cooker. Layer baby carrots atop the potatoes and green beans atop the carrots. Place the roast atop the layers of vegetables.
• Mix cream of mushroom soup, water, and dry onion soup mix together in a bowl; pour over the roast and vegetables.
• Cook on Low 8 to 10 hours.

SLOW COOKER PORK LOIN ROAST OR PORK SHOULDER

Steps:

• Spice Rub: Rub pork with about 1 tsp oil. Mix Rub together then sprinkle over pork. Pat to adhere all over.
• Brown: Heat 1 tbsp oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add pork and sear all around until deep golden brown (don't let spices burn). Place pork in slow cooker.
• Honey Butter Sauce: Wipe pan. Add butter and melt. Add garlic and cook for 1 minute until golden. Add remaining Sauce ingredients, mix, simmer rapidly for 30 seconds.

SLOW COOKER PORK ROAST

Steps:

• Rub pork roast all over with onion soup mix and place roast in the slow cooker. Pour cranberry sauce over roast.
• Cook on Low for 8 to 10 hours. Remove roast to a platter, reserving juices in the slow cooker.
• Melt butter in a saucepan over low heat. Whisk flour into melted butter to form a paste. Pour reserved juices from the slow cooker into the butter mixture, whisking constantly, until gravy lightens in color and thickens, about 5 minutes. Season with salt and black pepper to taste. Serve gravy alongside roast.

POMEGRANATE BALSAMIC PORK ROAST

Steps:

• In a wide skillet, cook bacon in olive oil until crisp, crumble bacon and set aside.
• Salt and pepper pork loin to taste, and brown on all sides.
• Place potatoes in bottom of crock pot, place pork loin on top.
• Cook leeks, carrots, and celery in remaining bacon fat and olive oil, add to crock pot.
• Deglaze pan with stock and 1 cup pomegranate juice, bring to a boil, and add to crock pot.
• Sprinkle herbs and bacon on top of pork loins, cook on low about 6 hours.
• Remove pork loins and potatoes from crock pot, set aside and keep warm.
• Move 2 cups of cooking liquid to a wide skillet, add remaining pomegranate juice, balsamic vinegar, and marmalade. Reduce liquid to about 1 cup.
• Slice pork loin, drizzle with pan sauce, serve with potatoes and maybe a nice spinach salad. Enjoy!

CROCK POT PORK ROAST

Steps:

• First, prepare your pork dry rub by mixing together all of the spices in a small bowl. Set aside.
• Then, prepare veggies. Quarter 6 russet potatoes, chop a white onion, dice 6 medium carrots into 4 pieces each, and roughly chop 4 cloves of garlic.
• Place the veggie medley on the bottom of your crockpot.
• Next, rub your pork shoulder roast with the dry rub. Make sure that every nook and cranny is covered in rub.
• Heat around 2 tablespoons of olive oil in a large cast iron skillet over medium/high heat. When olive oil is fragrant, sear pork shoulder for 2 minutes on each side.
• Then, place the pork roast in crock pot on top of the veggies. Make sure you scrape the skillet to get all of the delicious bits of rub off of it and add that to the crockpot, too.
• Create herb bundle, by using bakers twine to tie together thyme and rosemary and set that on top of the pork.
• Next, in a large Pyrex, mix together balsamic vinegar, red wine, and chicken broth.
• Then, pour that on top of the pork roast.
• Cover crockpot and turn to high. Let cook for around 6-8 hours (flipping pork roast halfway through cook time, if you can, if you can't no worries!).
• Remove meat and vegetables from the crockpot and discard the herb bundle.
• Using two forks, pull the pork roast apart into chunks and set aside.
• Place 1/2 cup of the liquid left in the crockpot into a microwave safe Pyrex. Whisk in cornstarch.
• Place cornstarch mixture into the microwave for 45 seconds (mixture should be thick a gelatinous).
• Remove from the microwave and whisk the cornstarch mixture into the existing liquid in the crockpot until it thickens into a thin gravy.
• Place pork and vegetables back into the crockpot and mix, coating everything in gravy.

SLOW COOKER PARMESAN HONEY PORK ROAST RECIPE

Steps:

• Spray slow cooker with non-stick cooking spray, and place roast in slow cooker.
• In a small bowl, combine the Parmesan cheese, honey, soy sauce, basil, garlic, oil and salt; pour over pork.
• Cover and cook on low for 6-7 hours or until a meat thermometer reads 160°.
• Remove meat to a serving platter; cover with foil to keep warm.
• Skim fat from cooking juices and transfer to a small saucepan.
• Bring liquid to a boil. Combine cornstarch and water until smooth and gradually stir into pan. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened.
• Slice roast and serve with gravy