A fast and easy recipe for pulled pork in the crock pot, rubbed with spices and cooked on low all day. Perfect for the work week!

One of the greatest inventions – ever – for a working mom like me was the Crock Pot, now referred to as the slow cooker.

For years, I’ve depended on the slow cooker to do the work while I was busy helping other families feed their children, navigate picky eating, or learn a specialized eating pattern.

The slow cooker has played an important role in feeding my family. From roasting meats to simmering beans all day, the Crock Pot has kept dinnertime in sync for my brood.

Slow Cooked Pulled Pork in the Crock Pot

One of my most popular recipes here on the blog is my Low & Slow Roasted Pork Shoulder. It’s another assemble-and-forget it type of recipe, but the cooking happens in the oven.

I like to make it on the weekends when I know we’ll be home and hunkered down for the day.

I use a bone-in shoulder and let it cook on the bone. Yes, it’s melt-in-your-mouth, fall-off-the-bone goodness.

But, during the work week, I’m too frazzled to take time to baste the pork, so I wanted to develop a pork recipe I could make in the slow cooker.

Slow Cooker Pulled Pork Roast

Recently, my husband did the grocery shopping and came home with a pork shoulder blade roast. It was pretty inexpensive and a decent size.

I thought, this is the opportunity to figure out a way to make this in the Crock Pot.

I have a Slow Cooker Beef recipe that my family loves, so I decided to use that as my base recipe. However, I wanted to give this pork a kick of spice.

After all, isn’t pulled pork supposed to be spicy?

Pulled Pork in the Crock Pot

A blade roast tends to have a significant amount of fat, so I knew I wanted to trim as much of it off as possible. In the slow cooker, if you don’t trim the fat, the meat will just sit in it as it roasts throughout the day. (Yuck.)

There’s nowhere for it to drip out. To minimize this from happening, I cut the roast into four large pieces, so I could easily trim the fat away.

I rubbed the pork pieces with a spice and brown sugar rub. Then, I laid the pork pieces on a bed of onions to help intensify the flavor.

I let the pork cook all day on low heat. When it was finished, we pulled it out and shredded it for a delicious rubbed pulled pork entree.

I served this with a garden salad and a Rutabaga and Cauliflower Mash.

Delicious!

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