Slow Cooker Island Pulled Pork

This Slow Cooker Island Pulled Pork offers an easy recipe for fork-tender pork with a wonderful twist of island-inspired flavors!

📝 Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon onion powder
• 1 tablespoon garlic powder
• 2 teaspoons grated fresh ginger
• 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cloves
• 1 1/2 teaspoons ground allspice
• 1 1/2 teaspoons thyme
• 1 1/2 teaspoons dry mustard
• 1 1/2 teaspoons coarse salt
• 1 teaspoon sweet or hot paprika
• 1/2 teaspoon cumin
• 1/2 teaspoon sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
• 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• 3 pounds boneless pork butt
• 1 cup apple cider or apple juice
• 1 bay leaf
• soft hamburger buns, (sliced in half (For extra deliciousness, butter the buns and grill or griddle until golden.))
• your favorite BBQ sauce
• your favorite pickles

👨‍🍳 Instructions

1. 1In a small bowl combine onion powder, garlic powder, cloves, ginger, allspice, thyme, dry mustard, salt, paprika, cumin, sugar, black pepper, and cayenne. Use fingers to rub spices together to ensure that ginger is dispersed throughout. Rub spice mixture all over the pork.
2. 2Pour apple cider into slow cooker, then add pork with fat side up. Add bay leaf.
3. 3Cook on low for 8 hours, or until perfectly fork-tender and shreddable. Remove pork from slow cooker to a large cutting board and use two forks to shred meat.
4. 4Skim fat off the liquids in slow cooker and discard. Drizzle a few tablespoons of the remaining juices over the shredded meat and fold to combine.
5. 5Serve pulled pork on a sliced bun as-is (a buttered and grilled bun is awesome!) or slathered with your favorite BBQ sauce.