Slow Cooker Pulled Pork with Rhubarb BBQ Sauce #fantasticalfoodfight

It’s Fantastical Food Fight time and I very nearly didn’t participate this month.

Sarah from A Fantastical Sharing of Recipes chose a wonderful food fight ingredient: rhubarb. 

But…ummm…it’s February.  And it snowed 6 ½ inches over the weekend…on top of the 3 foot drift that was already residing on top of my rhubarb plant.

Yeah...

Spring doesn’t actually arrive until May where I live and rhubarb isn’t ready for harvest until the end of June (if I’m lucky) or July (if it’s a late spring).

Luckily for me, rhubarb is ridiculously hearty and comes back each year despite months of sub-zero temperatures and when it does, it grows voraciously and I have to hack it back several times a summer.  I usually end up giving a lot of rhubarb away plus I freeze quite a bit, just in case.

Thank goodness for that!

I had 2 bags of rhubarb hanging out in my freezer, so I was able to participate after all!

But what to make?  Rhubarb is kind of a one hit wonder in my house.  I make a mean Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie (and occasionally rhubarb muffins, but I’m the only one who eats them, so I can’t justify if often) but not much else.

Then I remembered a Rhubarb BBQ sauce I made a few years ago.

I wondered if I could adapt it and make a homemade BBQ pork in the crock pot?

And yes, yes I could!

Even the kids enjoyed the recipe! 

So what exactly does rhubarb bring to the BBQ party?  It adds depth.  Rhubarb is very tart (and BBQ is very not) so while you can’t actually taste the rhubarb, the tartness adds another layer to those amazing flavors that are built up through the cooking process.

I served this BBQ Pork as a stuffed baked potato topping and it was amazing!

Slow Cooker Pulled Pork with Rhubarb BBQ Sauce

2 lb pork roast

1 cup chopped red rhubarb

1 medium onion, chopped

2 cloves garlic, minced

2 chipotle peppers in adobo sauce

1 cup ketchup

2/3 cup brown sugar

½ cup molasses

2 tablespoons cider vinegar

2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce

1 tablespoon stone ground mustard

½ teaspoon salt

Mix together everything except the pork in the bottom of a slow cooker.  Place the pork on top.

Cook on low for 8 hours on low.  Remove the pork, shred, and return to slow cooker.  Stir to mix the shredded pork into the sauce and cook for another 30 minutes before serving.

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Slow Cooker Pulled Pork with Rhubarb BBQ Sauce

by Amy's Cooking Adventures February-20-2018

Slow Cooker Pulled Pork with Rhubarb BBQ Sauce #fantasticalfoodfight #slowcooker #crockpot #rhubarb #pork

Ingredients

• 2 pounds pork roast
• 1 cup red rhubarb, chopped
• 1 onion, chopped
• 2 garlic, minced
• 2 chipotle peppers in adobo
• 1 cup ketchup
• 2/3 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup molasses
• 2 tablespoons cider vinegar
• 2 tablespoons worchestershire sauce
• 2 tablespoons stone ground mustard
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

Instructions

Mix together everything except the pork in the bottom of a slow cooker. Place the pork on top. Cook on low for 8 hours on low. Remove the pork, shred, and return to slow cooker. Stir to mix the shredded pork into the sauce and cook for another 30 minutes before serving.

Details

Prep time: 5 mins Cook time: 8 hour 30 mins Total time: 8 hour 35 mins Yield: 8 servings