Honey Sesame Pulled Pork Slow Cooker and Thai Cucumber Salad

My husband and I are a huge fan of Thai food and if we can find something to make in our Slow Cooker, it is a win win!  On a recent weekend, we found this recipe for Crock Pot Honey Sesame Pulled Pork and knew it was something we had to make.  The recipe calls for making the pork and putting it over white rice, but we had recently used Thai noodles with these individual meatloafs and thought they might be good with the pulled pork.  We decided a cool cucumber salad on the side would be perfect and not surprisingly found it from the same website.

It was delicious!  Wow!  It gives our favorite pulled bbq pork a run for its money!  We even fought over the leftovers 🙂 I cant wait for us to make it again!

NOTE: 2 Printable Recipe Cards Below

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Honey Sesame Pulled Pork Slow Cooker

Prep Time15 minutes mins

Cook Time4 hours hrs 5 minutes mins

Total Time4 hours hrs 20 minutes mins

Course: Main

Servings: 6

Author: Joanna Meyer for Rasa Malaysia

Ingredients

• 2 1/2 pounds 1,125 g pork roast, diced into 6 pieces
• 1/2 white onion diced
• 4 cloves garlic smashed with the side of a knife and peeled
• 1/4 cup 60 mL soy sauce
• 1/4 cup 45 g dark brown sugar
• 2 tablespoons 30 mL honey
• 1 tablespoon 11 g sesame seeds
• 1 tablespoon 15 g cornstarch
• 3 Thai chili peppers sliced

Instructions

• In a crock pot, add the pork roast, onion, garlic, soy sauce, brown sugar, honey and sesame seeds; stir until the pork is coated with the other ingredients. Cook on high for 4 hours.
• Transfer the pork to a cutting board and shred using two forks.
• In a pot, add the reserved juices from the crock pot and whisk in the corn starch. Cook on medium-high heat until the sauce thickens. Stir in the chili peppers and shredded pork.
• Serve the pork over steamed white rice or thai noodles

Notes

Crush red pepper is a good substitute for Thai chili peppers. You can also cook this recipe on low heat for 8 hours.

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Thai Cucumber Salad

recipe found here

Prep Time20 minutes mins

Total Time20 minutes mins

Course: Salad

Cuisine: Thai

Servings: 3

Author: Rasa Malaysia

Ingredients

Ingredients:

• 1 lb cucumber cut into pieces
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 small red onion sliced
• 2 tablespoons chopped roasted peanuts
• 1 tablespoon chopped cilantro

Dressing:

• 2 tablespoons sugar I reduced it to 1 Tablespoon
• 2 tablespoons water
• 4 tablespoons Thai sweet chili sauce
• 1 tablespoon Apple cider vinegar

Instructions

• Add salt to the cucumber, mix well and set aside in the fridge for 10-15 minutes. In the meantime, make the Dressing, by combining all the ingredients in a small sauce pan. Turn on the heat and reduce the Dressing a bit so it’s slightly thickened. Let cool.
• Drain the salt water from the cucumber completely. Toss the cucumber, onion, and mix with the Dressing. Top with the peanut and cilantro, serve immediately

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