Slow Cooker Pork Cushion Roast

Submitted by Chef #603514

"Don't let the long list of ingredients fool you...this is a super simple recipe, as I believe all slow cooker recipes should be!"

 

• Ready In: 8hrs 10mins
• Ingredients: 17
• Serves: 6-8

ingredients

• 2 medium onions, sliced
• 4 garlic cloves, sliced
• 2 1⁄2 - 3 1⁄2 lbs boneless pork cushion roast
• 4 carrots, sliced into large chunks
• 2 -3 potatoes, cubed
• 3⁄4 cup hot water
• 2 tablespoons white sugar
• 1⁄4 cup red wine vinegar
• 1⁄4 cup soy sauce
• 2 tablespoons ketchup
• 1 teaspoon black pepper
• 1⁄2 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1⁄2 teaspoon chicken bouillon
• 3 tablespoons dry red wine
• 1 dash hot pepper sauce (optional)
• 2 tablespoons cornstarch, and
• 1 tablespoon water, mixed

directions

1. Spray slow cooker with cooking spray.
2. Arrange onion and garlic slices evenly over the bottom of the slow cooker, then place the roast on top of the onion and garlic.
3. Add carrots and potatoes to the slow cooker, around the roast.
4. Mix water, sugar, vinegar, soy sauce, ketchup, black pepper, garlic powder, chicken bouillon, wine, and hot sauce in bowl.
5. Microwave mixture for 30 seconds to blend flavors.
6. Pour mixture over meat in slow cooker.
7. Cover and cook on low for 8 hours.
8. At 7 hour mark, stir in cornstarch and water mixture to thicken the sauce.
9. Serve over egg noodles, rice or stuffing.

Reviews

[wandaboyle140]

I made this....was really Good...I omitted the wine...in its place I just used the same amount of water...I also put fresh cilantro on top of the meat...will make this again ?? My husband couldn't get enough of the sauce....I just might make the sauce and put it on other things..?? Ate on it for 5 meals....great value....purchased the cushion roast for $1.29lb.

 

[arley1865]

I made this today with some changes, 2 cloves garlic, 2 sm onions, 7 baby potatoes 2 carrots...used mustard in place of vinegar and 1 1/2 cups of ck broth, had no wine, 2 1/2 cups water, 2 1/2Lb pork shoulder cushion picnic. had a small crockpot, the rest was the same measured by eye so maybe a little more, 2 1/2Tbs starch mixed with 1Tbs hot water, added at 8 1/2 hrs into cooking on low for total 10 1/2 hrs at end. It was covered in sauce and came out great and juicy this time I served over rice.... was Fall apart Great !

 

[jimmyb742]

Overall a delicious recipe with all satisfied in my house. I tasted the sauce when I first made it and wasn't sure that I would like it, but after slow cooking the flavors melded well and the sauce was excellent on the meat and rice. I doubled the sauce since a few reviewers said they thought the meat came out dry, and my pork cushion was not at all dry. I did stop cooking between 7 - 7.25 hours (once the sauce returned to a boil to thickened from the corn starch), and flipped the roast about 2/3 of the way through so the part of the roast that was above the sauce was then submerged for the rest of cooking.

 

[STMJR]

Very good, maybe a little too much vinegar. Next time I'll hit it with more pepper sauce.<br/>It was a little dry, our sloow cooker is large so the liquid only covered half the 3.5 # "roast.'<br/>Should it been covered" Seved it over rice. We'll do it again

 

[WW Girl]

To us the sauce was sweeter than we like and the roast seemed dry on the inside.