Why spend more time inside during the summer cooking when you can make our Slow Cooker Sweet and Tangy Pork delicious recipe?! You can make the tangy sauce right in the slow cooker along with the pork roast and leave it.
If you love sweet and sour chicken, you are going to like this sweet and sour pork recipe. They are very similar in taste, just a different protein using either boneless pork chops, pork butt, pork roast, pork tenderloin, or whatever your favorite cut of meat will work!
If you use boneless juicy pork chops, you can easily turn this into a tangy pulled pork recipe by shredding the pork and serving it over your favorite buns, aka one of the best busy weeknights easy dinner recipes.
Recipe Ingredient Notes
To make our slow cooker sweet and tangy pork, you need the following ingredients:
- Boneless pork chops diced
- Diced onion
- Garlic salt
- Pineapple tidbits drained
- Ketchup
- Brown sugar
- White vinegar
- Honey
- Soy sauce
- Ginger
- Dry mustard
Equipment Needed
For this recipe, you only need a few simple kitchen tools. We recommend using the following equipment:
How to Make Our Slow Cooker Sweet and Tangy Pork
Mix all ingredients together in the bottom of your slow cooker and cook on high for 4-5 hours or low for 6-8 hours. Serve over brown rice.
Recipe Notes
- Store any leftovers in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 5 days.
- If the pork is looking dry or if you accidentally overcook it, try adding a little bit of either chicken broth, lemon juice, or even a tad bit of apple cider vinegar to the pork depending on the flavor you are going for.
- You can use the cooking juices to make gravy by straining the pork from it and adding a cornstarch and water slurry to a pot and cooking it till it thickens up.
- You can use pineapple chunks to replace the tidbits, just stain the pineapple juice and chop the pineapple up more so it is less than bite-sized consistency.
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- Slow Cooker Pineapple Glazed Ham
- Slow Cooker Pork Chops
- Slow Cooker Pork Chops and Gravy
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- Slow Cooker Ranch Pork Roast
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Slow Cooker Sweet and Tangy Pork Recipe
Ingredients
- 6-8 thin boneless pork chops, diced
- ¾ cup diced onion
- 1 Tablespoon garlic salt
- 1 (20oz) can pineapple tidbits, drained
- 1 ½ cup ketchup
- ¾ cup brown sugar
- ½ cup white vinegar
- ½ cup honey
- ½ cup soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon ginger
- 1 teaspoon dry mustard
Instructions
- Mix all ingredients together in crock pot and cook on high for 4-5 hours or low for 6-8 hours. Serve over rice.
Notes
- If the pork is looking dry or if you accidentally overcook it, try adding a little bit of either chicken broth, lemon juice, or even a tad bit of apple cider vinegar to the pork depending on the flavor you are going for.
- You can use the cooking juices to make gravy by straining the pork from it and adding a cornstarch and water slurry to a pot and cooking it till it thickens up.
- You can use pineapple chunks to replace the tidbits, just stain the pineapple juice and chop the pineapple up more so it is less than bite-sized consistency.
Nutrition
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Do you drain the pineapple?
Hi Kari!
Sorry about that. Yes, drain the pineapple!
Do you know if this can be tossed all together & frozen for future use? Or at maybe stick in the fridge for the next day? Thanks!
I have never tried freezing it, but it works great as refrigerated leftovers! 🙂 -The Six Sisters
Just made this tonight since I had all the ingredients in my freezer and pantry……YUMMY! My three year old devoured it. Very good and going in our keeper file for the hot days when my slow cooker gets a workout (like today!). Thanks for the great recipe!
Hi! I made this tonight and it was really delicious. It was borderline too sweet but just barely. I still ate it ?
Mine came out a lot darker than your photo… Really red almost, what do you think made that happen?
Hi Michelle, not sure what happened if you followed the recipe as directed. The red could really only come from the ketchup and the dark soy sauce. Thanks so much for stopping by our blog. Have a great week!
Will it thicken up, right now it’s runny
I loved this recipe, had just a little reminder that the vinegar was there, still sweet. I did use half of the honey amount. 1/2 a cup of honey with brown sugar is a lot for our tastes, but we loved it still the same! Thank you!