Slow-Cooked Pork Tacos with Fire-Roasted Tomatoes and Pickled Onions

Recipe courtesy Angie Ketterman

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Cook Time:
4 hr 0 min
Level:
Easy
Yield:
6 servings

Times:

Prep: 30 min
Inactive Prep: 6 hr 0 min
Cook: 4 hr 0 min
Total:: 10 hr 30 min

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Ingredients

For Pork:

1 yellow onion, roughly chopped
2 garlic cloves, crushed
1 (15-ounce) can fire roasted tomatoes
1 to 2 chipotle peppers, roughly chopped
2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
1/4 cup chopped cilantro leaves
4 to 5 pound pork shoulder
2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

For Pickled Onions:

1/2 cup white vinegar
2 tablespoons sugar
Pinch red pepper flakes
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1 red onion, thinly sliced
1 teaspoon dried oregano

For Tacos:

24 corn tortillas
1 small green cabbage, shredded
2 avocados, peeled and thinly sliced
Pickled red onions
1 (16-ounce) container sour cream
Chopped cilantro leaves, for garnish

For Pork:

Directions

To the sleeve of a slow cooker add onion, garlic, tomatoes, chipotle peppers, Worcestershire sauce, and cilantro. Add pork and season with salt and pepper. Cover and slow cook on high for 4 to 6 hours until tender.

For Red Onions:

In a small saucepan over medium heat, add vinegar, sugar, red pepper flakes and salt, heat until sugar dissolves. Remove from heat and add onions and dried oregano. When mixture is cool pour into a quart container. You may need to add a bit of water just to cover. (Keep at room temperature for about 6 hours then place in the refrigerator.

Remove pork from slow cooker and shred using 2 forks. Toss with 1/2 cup of the liquid from the slow cooker.

To serve place 1/4 cup of the pork on a tortilla, top with cabbage, avocado, onions, sour cream and cilantro. Repeat with remaining ingredients.

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recipe Slow-Cooked Pork Tacos with Fire-Roasted Tomatoes and Pickled Onions
Shilpa Houston, TX 11-09-2009
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I will definitely make this again!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

This came out great! Delicious. I didn't see the written down version of this recipe; instead I had watched the video and... winged it from there. Didn't add enough salt and pepper as a result, but it tasted good when I seasoned to taste after serving to the plate. Spiciness: not spicy enough for me, but then again, I'm Indian and grew up on spicy Indian food. I forgot to add the Worcestershire sauce, still tasted just fine. I impulsively added a container of sliced mushrooms, which I recommend. One thing to keep in mind: make sure your slow cooker is big enough: that pork shoulder is pretty big, and I had to cut mine down a bit (about 20% off). I will definitely make this again!Read more
recipe Slow-Cooked Pork Tacos with Fire-Roasted Tomatoes and Pickled Onions
anne studio city, CA 08-10-2009
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melts in your mouth
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

This dish was so incredibly fast and easy. The meat really falls of the bone and taste like carnitas but much healthier. I... skipped the onion but instead got some queso fresco. So incredible. . The pork shoulder was perfect.Read more
recipe Slow-Cooked Pork Tacos with Fire-Roasted Tomatoes and Pickled Onions
Zoe Herriman, UT 03-30-2009
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Very good!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

I thought the meat was very good and moist and the onions ROCKED!, loved, loved the the whole taco. My only disapointment was... I thought it would be spicier. My whole family loved them as well. I will be making this again but will make it spicier. I Also used the the left overs for pulled pork sandwiches with a really easy slaw: 1 bag of slaw, cilantro, granny smith apple thinly sliced, lime juice, salt, pepper, a pinch of red pepper flakes amd a drizzle of olive oil.Read more
recipe Slow-Cooked Pork Tacos with Fire-Roasted Tomatoes and Pickled Onions
K Apple Valley, CA 01-15-2009
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Easier than it looks and $ saving!!!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

This recipe looks complicated but it's very simple (to see the video, see "Low and Slow Pork Tacos") and it's $ saving! ... Make the pickled onions a day or so ahead to save time. I always make something in the slow cooker when my folks come into town so that I can throw it in the crock pot in the morning and the rest of my day is free to do other things. This was the perfect alternative to my usual pot roast. We all loved it! I used 3 cloves of garlic and I chopped them. I also removed seeds from the peppers because I'm a wuss with heat. Then, rather than salt & pepper, I used about 1/2 packet of taco seasoning (just because that's how I usually season my taco meat). Once it was finished cooking I turned the slow cooker to low and as I shredded the pork I returned it to the pot to stay warm til we were ready to eat. With the leftovers, the next night I added a packet of McCormick's Slow Cookers BBQ Pulled Pork seasoning mix along with the other ingredients it calls for and we had BBQ pulled pork sandwiches! Read more
recipe Slow-Cooked Pork Tacos with Fire-Roasted Tomatoes and Pickled Onions
Jeff La Grande, OR 01-11-2009
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Incredible tacos, onions a must!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

I almost left out the onions when making this and I'm glad I didn't, they make the dish. DO NOT LEAVE OUT THE ONIONS! They... are incredible, I did however double the amount of ingredients when doing the onions though. I had pork shoulder ribs when cooking this dish and cut them down into 2 inch cuts when placing them into the slow cooker which I think helped cook the chunks better and allowed more flavor to hit all sides. The pork was falling off of the fork when I took the chunks out and barely had to pull it apart because it was so tender. The flavor of the meat was incredible too, and a perfect accent with the onions. I thought the onions would overpower everything else in the dish, but they all worked together very well. Must try recipe and a favorite int he house now.Read more
recipe Slow-Cooked Pork Tacos with Fire-Roasted Tomatoes and Pickled Onions
wendy cedar park, TX 12-16-2008
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Delicious!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

This has become one of my favorite recipes. But, I will say it's very important to get pork shoulder, and not any other part... - I got pork butt on accident and it didn't have the flavor of the shoulder, and it didn't fall apart like I wanted it too. I find the pickled onions to be too strong so I don't include them, and we have lettuce instead of cabbage. But it's easy and yummy. Read more