Slow-Cooker Spiced Orange Pork Roast

Name: Slow-Cooker Spiced Orange Pork Roast
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 118 milliliters dried apricots or orange-flavored dried plums; 454 grams bag baby-cut carrots; 118 milliliters chicken broth; 2 Tbsps cornstarch; 8 servings Chopped fresh parsley, if desired; 1 teaspoons ground cinnamon; 0 teaspoons ground nutmeg; 1 Tbsp honey; 1 medium orange; 0 teaspoons pepper; 1 kilograms pork shoulder roast; 1 teaspoons salt; 1 Tbsp water

You can never have too many main course recipes, so give Slow-Cooker Spiced Orange Pork Roast a try. One serving contains 179 calories, 18g of protein, and 6g of fat. This gluten free and dairy free recipe serves 8. If you have honey, water, pepper, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the ground cinnamon you could follow this main course with the Cinnamon Twists as a dessert.

Instructions

Sprinkle pork with salt and pepper. Spray 10-inch skillet with cooking spray. Cook pork in skillet over medium-high heat until brown on all sides. Grate peel from orange; squeeze juice from orange. Reserve orange peel and juice.

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Orange Zest

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Pork

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Frying Pan

Place pork in 3 1/2- to 4-quart slow cooker.

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Pork

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Slow Cooker

Place carrots and apricots on pork.

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Apricot

Carrot

Pork

Mix broth, cinnamon, nutmeg and reserved orange peel and juice; pour over pork.

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Cinnamon

Nutmeg

Broth

Juice

Pork

Cover and cook on low heat setting 9 to 11 hours or until pork is tender.

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Pork

Remove pork, carrots and apricots from cooker; cover to keep warm. Skim fat from surface of juices in cooker; pour juices into 1-quart saucepan.

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Apricot

Carrot

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Sauce Pan

Mix cornstarch and water until smooth; stir in honey. Stir honey mixture into juices in saucepan. Cook over medium-low heat about 15 minutes, stirring constantly, until mixture is smooth and bubbly.

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Corn Starch