Slow-Cooked Pineapple Pork with pineapple salsa

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Delicious tortillas filled with meltingly tender sweet, tangy, and spicy pork. Serve warm, accompanied by a vibrant, fresh pineapple salsa and a sprinkle of coriander.

Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 8 hours
Total Time 8 hours 15 minutes
Course Dinner, Lunch
Cuisine Mexican
Servings 6 people

Ingredients
 
 

  • 1 - 1.2 kg pork leg or shoulder fat trimmed
  • 1 Dole Tropical Gold pineapple divided
  • 1 tin black beans rinsed and drained
  • 1 cup mild salsa medium salsa if you like it hotter
  • ¾ cup brown sugar
  • 3 cloves garlic chopped
  • 1 fresh green chilli chopped
  • 2 tsp smoked paprika
  • 1 tbsp garlic powder
  • salt
  • black pepper
  • hot sauce optional

Fresh pineapple salsa

  • ½ Dole Tropical Gold pineapple in small cubes
  • ½ green capsicum chopped
  • ½ red onion chopped
  • ½ cup coriander roughly chopped
  • 1 lime juce

To serve

  • tortillas
  • lime wedges
  • extra coriander

Instructions
 

  • Peel and core pineapple. Roughly chop 1/2 fresh pineapple and blitz in a food processor until well crushed.
  • Place the pork in a slow cooker. Add black beans, salsa, the blitzed pineapple, sugar, garlic, chilli and spices. Cook on high for 4-6 hours or on low for 8-10 hours or until tender enough to shred.
  • Shred pork then continue to cook on low for 10 minutes to soak in the juices.
  • Season to taste and add some hot sauce(optional).
  • Meanwhile, toss all the pineapple salsa ingredients.
  • Serve Pineapple pork in tortillas, with the fresh pineapple salsa, garnished with extra coriander and lime wedges.
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