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Slow Cooker Thai Pork with Peanut Sauce

I love how the Thai Pork cooks all day and makes for a quick easy meal at the end of the day. The sauce is a must to finish this dish out.

Make it as spicy as you wish with some Sriracha, but don't forget the limes and crushed peanuts.

Makes 4 servings

Ingredients

2 lb boneless pork shoulder
3 - 4 sweet peppers, seeded and cut into strips
2 cloves garlic, crushed
sauce
1/3 cup Bourbon Barrel Foods® Kentuckyaki Sauce
1 tablespoon Bourbon Barrel Foods® Soy Sauce
1 tablespoon sesame oil
1 tablespoon Red Boat® Fish Sauce
2 tablespoons lime juice
2 tablespoons shaohsing cooking wine
1/2 cup Jif® Natural Creamy Peanut Butter Spread, divided
1 tablespoon Huy Fong Foods® Chili Garlic Sauce, to taste
1 teaspoon red pepper flakes
garnish
cilantro, chopped
dry-roasted peanuts, crushed
Huy Fong Foods® Sriracha, to taste
lime wedges

Directions

In a small bowl combine the sauce ingredients with 1/4 cup of the peanut butter. Stir until the peanut butter is well incorporated, and set aside.

Put the pork, sweet peppers, garlic cloves into the slow cooker and cover with the cooking sauce. Cover and cook on low for ~8 hours.

When finished cooking, remove the pork and cover. Remove the garlic and peppers; and pour the remaining liquid into a fat separator.

making the sauce
In a small saucepan add the separated liquid, with the remaining 1/4 cup peanut butter and cook until thickened.

To serve, shred pork and serve over jasmine rice in a large bowl. Then pour sauce over each serving and sprinkle each serving with cilantro, crushed peanuts and drizzle with sriracha, to taste. Squeeze lime juice over pork or serve with lime wedges as a side.

Notes

Serve with jasmine rice.
Could substitute shaohsing cooking wine with 2 tablespoons mirin or sherry.
01/29/24 - served with roasted cauliflower. Very good.
I have used pork shoulder with bone and also a pork loin in the past. Always turns out fantastic.
Use a slow cooker liner for easy pouring into the fat separator and cleanup.

I DO NOT get any compensation, free stuff or acknowledgment for mentioning, using or linking to any specific products mentioned. They are for my reference only. Any product or ingredient in the recipe can be substituted with what you have available, a regional favorite or what you find delicious.

Credits
- From the book, Not your Mother’s Slow Cooker Cookbook by Beth Hensperger. Page 360.