Slow Cooker Italian-Style Pork Roast
- Ready In:
- 8hrs 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Serves:
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6-8
ingredients
- 2 teaspoons garlic, minced
- 1 teaspoon salt (optional)
- 1 teaspoon dried basil leaves
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano leaves
- 1⁄4 teaspoon red pepper flakes
- 2 -3 lbs boneless boston pork roast
- 1 large onion, quartered and thinly sliced
- 1 1⁄2 cups tomato and basil pasta sauce (I used recipe # 22280) or 1 1/2 cups marinara sauce (I used Homemade Pizza Sauce)
- 2 -16 ounces great northern beans or 2 -16 ounces cannellini beans, rinsed and drained
- 1⁄4 cup shredded fresh basil (optional) or 1/4 cup chopped Italian parsley (optional)
directions
- Combine garlic, salt, basil, oregano and red pepper flakes in small bowl; rub over roast.
- Place half of onion slices into slow cooker. Cut roast in half to fit into slow cooker. Place one half of roast over onion slices; top with remaining onion slices and other half of roast. Pour pasta sauce over roast. Cover; cook on LOW 8 to 9 hours until roast is fork tender.
- Remove roast from cooking liquid; tent with foil. Let liquid in slow cooker stand 5 minutes to allow fat to rise. Skim off fat.
- Stir beans into liquid. Cover; cook on HIGH 10 to 15 minutes or until beans are hot. Cut pork. Serve with beans mixture and garnish wi fresh basil, if desired.
- I did not use the beans, so I used corn starch to thicken the liquid and spooned it over the rice and pork.
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Reviews
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I didn't make this recipe myself, but had it last night for dinner at a friends. I had passed this recipe on to her and she decided to make it for dinner. It was excellent. <br/><br/>She used a 3 lb pork loin vs a roast; she also used a diced basil tomatoes vs sauce and she added an extra can of beans at the end. There was enough liquid to mix with the beans to make a nice side dish.<br/><br/>It was flavorful, tender and just really nice. I loved that there was no soup in the recipe. The fresh herbs at the end made a nice fresh flavor. I made a roasted eggplant relish that went with the pork and we had a big antipasta plate to start. An excellent crock pot recipe, but could easily be done in the oven as well, but the crock pot made it so easy.<br/>VERY Tasty!! I'm adding this to my cookbook as well.<br/>My friend is not on this site, but wanted to say thank you as well. All of her guests loved it.
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