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Slow-cooked apple BBQ pork with Brussel sprouts and fennel
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Slow-cooked apple BBQ pork with Brussel sprouts and fennel

This slow-cooked apple BBQ pork with Brussel sprouts and fennel recipe is an easy recipe with ingredients that go perfectly with each other.
Course Main Course
Cuisine American
Keyword apple, Brussel sprouts, fennel, gluten free, main, pork, pork shoulder, slow cooker
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 8 hours
Servings 6

Ingredients

  • 1.5 kg pork shoulder
  • salt and pepper
  • 1 apple
  • 1 red onion
  • 1/2 cup coconut barbecue sauce or your barbecue sauce of preference
  • 1 tsp liquid smoke optional

Brussel sprouts and fennel

  • 500 g Brussel sprouts
  • 2 small fennel bulbs
  • 1 tbsp fat of choice (bacon fat, tallow, ghee or butter)
  • salt and pepper

Instructions

Pork

  • Season pork with salt and pepper, place in slow cooker.
  • Peel, core and slice apple.
  • Slice onions.
  • Cover pork with apple, onions, barbecue sauce, and liquid smoke. Cook on low for 8 - 9 hours.

Brussel sprouts and fennel

  • Halve Brussel sprouts and steam for 3 minutes.
  • Thinly slice fennel.
  • Heat fat in a pan at medium-high heat, cook fennel for 3 minutes, add Brussel sprouts and cook for another couple of minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
  • Serve and enjoy.