Slow Cooker Braised Pork Shoulder Roast Amongst Apple Tree Butter Sauce – Reducing The Require For Roux

Man, I’ve been making a lot of rouxs lately (which you’ll last seeing inward all their buttery glory inward a serial of upcoming vacation videos), but for this apple tree cider braised pork roast, I wanted to spill out things a niggling lighter in addition to decided to role a classic reduction.

We’ve done dozens of similar agency sauces, but most of those were traditional pan sauces, where the skillet is deglazed alongside about form of flavorful liquid, which is reduced down, in addition to in conclusion finished alongside butter.

This is basically the same technique; except hither we’re reducing the braising liquid from the dull cooker spell our pork rests. By the way, I spill out proverb “cider” because it sounds in addition to looks meliorate inward print, but I genuinely used apple tree juice. Both locomote real well, but a just-pressed, unfiltered cider would last my official recommendation.

One affair to recollect virtually these types of reduction sauces is that a niggling goes a long way. You’re taking an already flavorful liquid in addition to reducing downwardly to mayhap 25% of its master volume. This is likewise the argue you lot shouldn’t flavour it until the end. After the mutual frigidity butter is whisked into the sauce, in addition to your herb of choice has been added, hand it a gustation in addition to arrange for tabular array salt then.

Since we’re using a relatively pocket-sized amount of braising liquid for this big a hunk of meat, I decided to role the dull cooker. You tin for sure produce this on the stovetop, over real depression heat, or inward a dull (275 degrees F.) oven, but neither is quite every bit convenient. Regardless of your cooking method, I promise you lot hand this delicious pork shoulder a endeavor soon. Enjoy!
 

Ingredients:
4-5 pound pork shoulder roast (boneless or bone-in locomote fine)

salt in addition to pepper to taste

1 tbsp vegetable oil

a twain shallots or xanthous onion, sliced

1 rib celery, chopped

1/2 loving cup apple tree cider vinegar

2 1/2 cups apple tree cider or juice

4 peeled garlic cloves

1 bay leaf

cayenne to taste

1 rounded teaspoon Dijon mustard

2 tablespoons mutual frigidity butter cutting into pocket-sized cubes

1 tbsp fresh herb – parsley, sage, thyme, etc.

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