Slow Cooker Pork Shoulder

Boneless slow cooker pork shoulder recipe with 3 ingredients! If you loved our Instant Pot pork shoulder results, in your Crockpot is another one pot meal has never been easier. Toss with bbq sauce to make sliders, tacos, or serve over rice for dinner.

Pork Shoulder Crock Pot Recipe

We have made all sorts of yummy meals like this in our pot! This and our slow cooker pork carnitas are probably our favorites. I mean this meat is great tossed with all sorts of sauces or salsa with a bit of spicy heat!

Load it up into a few fluffy baked potatoes and it is a super cheap meal that can feed a crowd. Make all the things with this and decide for yourselves!

You really only need 2 ingredients but I slice an onion and include that in almost every recipe I make. To make things even easier, I bought a pre-seasoned and marinated boneless pork shoulder.

If all you can find is a bone-in piece that is fine too. You can just eliminate a lot of the work and extra fat if there aren’t any bones.

• You can see here the one I chose.
• Typically you can find a few different marinade options, this one stuck out to me because we love Instant Pot carnitas!

If this isn’t an option you can leave it plain and just pour a bottle of barbecue sauce on the meat at the end. OR use a lemon pepper marinade overnight.

Ingredients

• 3 – 4 lb pork shoulder, boneless is best
• Onion, sliced so they won’t fall apart as much with the heat
• Broth is all we used here, from there you can drain liquids and toss with any sauce of your choice

Variations

If you’d rather use our sweet and savory brown sugar dry rub recipe you can liberally coat the outside right before. For a more intense flavor, coat the night before and store in a freezer bag in the fridge.

There isn’t even much explaining to do when it comes to making slow cooker pork shoulder. You need a lengthy amount of time in order to really break it down so it falls apart like you like it in the restaurants. If I am in a hurry I have made this on high which I typically don’t recommend but with large cuts like this it seems to work just fine. I really prefer low and slow but if I don’t think about dinner until noon then……

How to Cook Pork Shoulder Roast Slow Cooker

• Place pork shoulder in slow cooker with onions surrounding it.
• Pour in broth on top and close lid.
• Slow cook on low for 8 hours or until very fork tender shredding easily with just two forks with little to no effort. On high you would cook for 5 hours cooking time for this size roast, larger will need longer.

After it’s been covered and cooked to the point where it’s fork tender fall apart, then: serve shredded pork out of your Crock pot on slider buns as a fun appetizer or dinner. Alternatively we sometimes just serve it with white rice and mashed potatoes.

Can you slow cook pulled pork too long?

If the meat is left whole, it is hard to do. Once you shred it with forks though and leave it in the broth to stay moist it can get mushy if standing too long. I serve it and don’t like it sitting in the pot much longer than an hour or so.

If you want to marinate, do so the night before. Store in a freezer bag without any air in the fridge. Alternatively, cook it plain and just pour a jar of bbq sauce on meat at the end on the shredded meat.

How many hours per pound for pork shoulder in slow cooker?

2-4 pounds is what we used here and found most often; 7-8 hours on low or 5 hours on high will get it to fork tender and to shred easily. If yours is 4-6 pounds you would want to slow cook for 8-9 hours on low or 6 hours on high. 6-8 pounds takes closer to 9-10 hours on low or 7 hours on high. If you choose a large 8-10 pound piece you would need almost overnight at 10-11 hours on low or 8 hours on high.

How long does leftover pork last?

As long as you store it in bags or containers with the air eliminated it is safer to consume up to 4 days after cooled. Add it into a casserole, toss and warm with bbq sauce over rice or on dinner rolls for a quick meal.

Of course, but you need to be careful so you don’t dry it out. Take out as much as you want and toss it with some sauce, like barbecue. Once coated it should stay moist heating it on the stovetop or microwave in 30 sec. intervals.

Other Simple Pork Recipes You’ll Love

If you’re looking for more easy pork recipes to try, we have a bunch more like slow cooker ranch pork chops and more on The Typical Mom blog!

For a quicker option you can follow our Ninja Foodi pulled pork using a tenderloin.

• Recently we use the dry rub I spoke about above on our smoked pulled pork and it came out amazing! Intermittently throughout you’ll need to spray or drizzle a bit of apple cider vinegar on it to keep it most.
  • For any of these you can always just keep it simple too.
  • If you prefer just salt and pepper on top then go with that!
  • Use the flavors you love and prefer, these are just suggestions when it comes to seasonings.

Love balsamic vinegar? Try this other Crockpot pork tenderloin or beef arm roast recipe and see which is your fave. For the best baked pork chops, follow this recipe that people just rave about!