Slow-Cooker Mexican Shredded Pork Tostadas

Name: Slow-Cooker Mexican Shredded Pork Tostadas
Yield: Serves 4 to 6
Cuisine: Mexican
Ingredients: 2 pounds, boneless pork butt roast, trimmed and cut into 2-inch pieces; 1 , (15-ounce) can tomato sauce; 1 , onion, chopped fine; 4 , garlic cloves, minced; 1 1/2 teaspoons, chipotle chile powder; 1 teaspoon, table salt, plus more to taste; , Salt; 1 teaspoon, dried oregano; 1/2 teaspoon, dried thyme; 2 , bay leaves; 12 , tostada shells; Crumbled, queso fresco; Fresh, cilantro leaves; , Sour cream; Diced, avocado; , Lime wedge

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Appears in Cook's Country December/January 2018

Main Courses

Mexican

Slow Cooker

Deeply flavored shredded pork? Sounds like a job for the slow cooker.

SERVES4 to 6

TIME5 to 7 hours on high, or 8 to 10 hours on low

Slow-Cooker Mexican Shredded Pork Tostadas

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Good pork tinga (a Mexican dish of spicy shredded meat) is a rewarding labor of love, but for a home version where the slow cooker did the heavy lifting, we had to make a few adjustments to the recipe. To solve the problem of soupiness, we ...

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