Slow cooker Marrakesh-style pork
3
Points®
Total time: 8 hr 35 min • Prep: 20 min • Cook: 8 hr 15 min • Serves: 4 • Difficulty: Easy
Ingredients
Olive oil
2 tsp
Pork leg steak, raw
450 g, (buy 500g), fat trimmed
Red onion
1 large, quartered, thinly sliced
Dried apricots
12 whole, thinly sliced
Apple juice no added sugar
¾ cup(s), (180ml)
Fresh ginger
2 tsp, finely grated
Fresh thyme
1½ tsp, chopped
Cinnamon quill
1 whole
Fresh coriander
¼ cup(s), or basil
Lime(s)
1 medium, quartered
Instructions
1
Heat oil in large non-stick frying pan over medium-high heat. Season pork with salt and pepper. Cook pork for 2 minutes each side or until golden. Transfer to a plate.
2
Reduce heat to medium. Cook onion, stirring, for 8 minutes or until golden. Combine half of both the onion and apricots in a 4.5 litre (18-cup) slow cooker. Top with pork and pour over apple juice. Combine remaining onion, apricots, ginger and thyme in medium bowl. Spoon over pork and tuck in cinnamon stick.
3
Cook, covered, on high for 3 hours (or low for 8 hours) or until pork is fork tender. Remove and discard cinnamon. Sprinkle with coriander and serve with lime wedges.
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