Slow Cooked Five Spice Pulled Pork
We had a huge gathering over the Bank holiday weekend. We got together four friends, their various other halves and kids with a huge bonfire in one corner of the garden, a trampoline and kiddies play house at the other and a whole lot of food somewhere in between. Just the way Bank holidays should go, drizzle and all.
And talking about the weather, I kinda figured I should make my life easier this year. Skip the obligatory barbeque, which obviously does not mix well with the rain, but not skip the very obligatory meat centrepiece. So I made this super easy Chinese five spice pulled pork.
All I had to do was rub the flavours in and bung it in the oven, and it cooked slowly for five or more hours, to achieve a lovely, tender, flavoursome deliciousness. So, up with the children, quickly switch on the oven and some hours later, the pork was perfect. The house had been filled with delicious smells and I had been able to have a totally #achievelazy morning.
It was only a matter of laying out the buns, shredded pork, coleslaw and ice tea on the create your own pulled pork sandwich station and we were good to go.
What worked out even better was that one of my friends was seriously late (puncture, and then he discovered that his spare tyre was flat too), but with pulled pork, it is just as nice hours after it comes out of the oven as when it is piping hot.
In fact, the remains of the five spice pulled pork are in today’s sandwiches as we go off for an adventure picnic. And if you like pulled pork then please check out this irn bru pulled pork from Foodie Quine.
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Five Spice Pulled Pork
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp Shaoxing rice wine vinegar
- 3 tbsp soy sauce
- 2 tbsp runny honey
- 2 tbsp Chinese five spice powder
- 1 tbsp minced ginger
- 2 garlic cloves minced
- Lots of coleslaw
- Buns
Instructions
- Mix together all the ingredients of the marinade and pour it over the pour it over the pork and let stand for 30 mins or overnight in the fridge.
- Preheat oven to fan assisted 200C / 220C / 425F / gas 7 and line a roasting tray with some foil making sure that there is enough foil to be able to cover the pork.
- Remove the pork from the marinade (save this for later) and roast in the over skin side up and uncovered for 20 mins.
- Reduce the oven to fan assisted 130C / 150C / gas 2, pour the rest of the marinade over the pork, cover with the foil and roast for a further 5 hrs until it is tender enough to be shredded with a fork.
- Let the pork cool, remove and discard the skin and shred the pork using two forks.
- Pile the pulled pork high inside the buns and top with lots of juice coleslaw and enjoy.
- Serves 6-8.
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Pulled pork is a favorite of mine. Your recipe looks and sounds amazing! Nettie
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What an amazing looking sandwich, wish I had one right NOW!!
I wish I still had mine too.
I would love to dig right into this flavourful pulled pork. Fabulous!
I love the sound of the five spice and it looks so good.
This looks so delicious! Thanks so much for sharing! 🙂
Pulled Pork is such a comfort food and I can imagine it works really well with chinese five spice. I’ve got some Smoked Paprika and Irn Bru up my sleeve for mine.
Oooooooooh. Sounds like a good plan.
This looks so yummy! I wish I had all the ingredients on hand right now because I JUST put 2 pork roasts in my slow cooker!
You have some seriously good food to look forward to Christine.
What a wonderfully simple dinner. You can’t beat a pulled pork sandwich! My favourite 🙂
Simple, fuss free, supper or lunch or lazy day eats.
OMG this looks and sounds awesome! My husband would totally love this!
Hey Debi, so you certainly have to make this.
Holy moly… you had me at slow-cooked! There is little better than a slow-cooked joint of meat, reduced to a massively flavourful pile of fork-tender deliciousness! Love your addition of five spice as well 🙂
And you had me giggling.
That sounds lovely, and I much prefer a dry pulled pork than one covered with sweet sauce. Chinese 5 spice is one of my favourite things so I will definitely give this a try – thanks for sharing.
I tend to have ‘dry’ pork days and more sauce pulled pork days Tracy.
I love pulled pork, but I really like your twist on it with the chinese five spice. Yum!
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I cannot wait to try this. Need to go shopping for pork. It looks wonderful xx
Tastes wonderful too Debbie.
Looks amazing and I do love a good pulled pork sandwich too!
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CT would love this and it sounds a very sensible way of getting around the British weather. Our exciting food yesterday consisted of a bag of crisps as we got lost repeatedly finding our way home through Wales. And today I’m fasting!
Oh dear. I am not sure how I would have survived that.
I bet that was amazing. I love the ease of slow cooked pork, as long as you get the spices right and you have, it tastes wonderful. GG
I think I will be doing much more with pulled pork.
I LOVE my slow cooker 🙂 I will definitely be making this, awesome recipe
Enjoy every mouthfull Mellissa.
What a wonderful recipe and great cold too. Pulled Pork has become one of my new favourites.
That is the great thing about pulled pork. Do head over to Love Pork website for more pulled pork recipes.
Another fantastic looking meal on here 😉 – Pulled pork seem to be all the rage these days!
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Another fantastic looking meal on here 😉 – Pulled pork seem to be all the rage these days!
That is because it is sooooooooo easy and good too Jon.