Aren’t slow cookers the most amazing kitchen creation ever!?
I mean who does not love just being able to throw a bunch of ingredients in a pot in the
morning and not having to worry about it for the rest of the day? Not to mention the smell that consumes your house during those 8+ hours of cooking is also amazing almost orgasmic.
Enough about slow cookers. Before this, I had never cooked a pork tenderloin before, but kept seeing it on the Food Network channel, so when I saw it on sale last week, I picked one up. I mean $6 for a 3 1/2lb pork loin, who couldn’t beat that. I found this recipe and altered it slightly for our taste for the most amazing sweet and savory slow cooker pork loin.
First start by greasing your crockpot with cooking spray. This will allow for easier clean up later. Then place your pork loin in the bottom and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
Cut up a medium red onion. I prefer the sweet taste of red onions with this.
Add onion, chicken broth and our own sweet and sour sauce recipe to the pot. Cover and let cook for 8-10 hours on low or 5 hours on high.
30 minutes before you are ready to eat add chopped green pepper and pineapple.
Remove pork loin from crockpot
Slice into 1/2 in thick slices (or whatever size you prefer).
I served this sweet and savory slow cooker pork loin with rice and corn, but think next time mashed potatoes would have definitely been a better side! 🙂
Slow Cooker Sweet & Savory Pork Loin
Ingredients
- 3 1/2 lb pork loin I would say up to 6 lbs would be fine for this meal, but I chose smaller because it's just two of us eating
- 1 medium red onion chopped
- Recipe for Sweet & Sour sauce see link in post above
- 1 14.5 oz can low sodium chicken broth
- 1 20 oz can cubed pineapple drained
- 1/2 green pepper chopped
- Salt and Black pepper to taste
Instructions
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Place pork loin into a greased crock pot.
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Sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste.
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Add chopped red onion, chicken broth, and sweet and sour sauce to the pot.
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Cover and let cook for 5 hours on high or 8-10 hours on low.
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Thirty (30) minutes before ready to eat, add chopped green pepper and pineapple.
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Cook for an additional 30 minutes.
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Remove pork loin from crockpot and cut into 1/2inch slices. Serve hot.
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Refrigerate any leftovers.
Enjoy 🙂
You may also like our Slow Cooker BBQ Parmesan Pork Loin recipe!
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