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Slow cooker Sunday sauce... and enjoying your leisure time
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Yield:
Serves 6-8

Prep Time:
25 minutes

Cooking Time:
8.25 hours

Ingredients:

  • 1.2kg bone-in pork shoulder, excess fat trimmed
  • 1 tsp salt, divided
  • 1 onion, diced
  • 1 carrot, diced
  • 1 stalk of celery, diced 
  • 3 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 6oz /177ml can tomato paste
  • 1 cup dry white wine
  • 28oz /794g can whole tomatoes
  • 1 Tbsp granulated sugar
  • 2 tsp dried oregano
  • 1 tsp hot pepper flakes
  • ¼ cup thinly sliced basil, for topping
  • Parmesan
  • 2 Tbsp olive oil, divided

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Cooking Instructions:

  1. Heat 1 Tbsp of olive oil in a large sauté pan over medium-high heat. Season pork shoulder with ½ tsp of salt, sear for 3 minutes per side. Remove from pan and place in slow cooker.
  2. Turn heat down to medium-low, add remaining Tbsp. of oil to the pan, add onion, carrot and celery, and ¼ tsp of salt. Cook for 5 minutes. Add garlic, cook for another minute. Add tomato paste and sauté another minute to caramelize.
  3. Deglaze with white wine, cook out alcohol for about 3 minutes, stirring to loosen brown bits from bottom of the pan. Add whole tomatoes, breaking up with the back of a wooden spoon into large chunks.
  4. Add sugar, oregano, pepper flakes and remaining ¼ tsp of salt.
  5. Pour tomato mixture over pork in the slow cooker. Cook on high for 4 hours or low for 8 hours.
  6. Once done, carefully remove pork to a bowl. Discard bone and any overly fatty pieces. Shred pork with two forks. Add pork back to sauce, serve over pasta and sprinkle with fresh basil ad Parmesan cheese. 
Nutritional Information
1 serving (1/10 of recipe)
Protein 26 g
Calories 221
Sugar
Fat 7 g
  Saturated 2 g
  Monounsaturated
  Polyunsaturated
Cholesterol 57 mg
Sodium 406 mg
Potassium
Calcium
Carbohydrate 10 g
Fibre 3g

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