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Hack the New Year’s Traditional Meal with this Twist – GF, NF, DF Pork, Black-eyed Peas and Greens


My family loved this and said it is a keeper.

Total Prep Time: 4.5 hours 

Ingredients
ü  Boneless Pork Shoulder – 4lbs
ü  1 can Roasted Tomatoes
ü  1 can Rotel with Chilis
ü  1 can Black-eyed Peas
ü  1 can Margaret Holmes Seasoned Black-eyed Peas
ü  1 sweet onion - diced
ü  1 green pepper - diced
ü  1 bag Publix Kale Salad Mix
ü  1 teaspoon Sea Salt
ü  ¾ teaspoon pepper
ü  ½ cup Olive or Canola oil

Directions

1.       Add oil to a large skillet. Warm oil. Add pork shoulder and season with a generous amount of salt and pepper. Brown each side of pork shoulder.
2.       Transfer pork shoulder to a crockpot or insta-pot.
3.       Remove pork fat from skillet. Keep one tablespoon.
4.       Add tomatoes to skillet, the tablespoon of fat, Sea salt and pepper. Stir together and let stew for 3-4 minutes.
5.       Poor tomatoes over pork should in crockpot or insta-pot. Add black-eyed peas, onions and green peppers. Stir together.
6.       Turn crockpot on high for cooking completion in 4 hours.
OR Turn crockpot on low for completion in 8 hours.
7.       Pork is ready when it reaches in internal temperature of 195˚F.
8.       ½ hour before completion, add complete bag of Kale Salad without the dressing and pine nut cranberry mixture.
9.       When ready to serve add pine nut and cranberry mixture.

Tips:

1.       We found that browning took longer than expected, so the shoulder took only 3.5 hours of cook time.
2.       After the meat was thoroughly cooked, I removed all of the excess fat from each piece of pork. By this time the pork was so tender, each piece had separated.
3.       To create an even mix of ingredients, I used to forks to create pulled pork.
4.       We decided to make mashed potatoes as a side. We put the dish in bowels over the mashed potatoes. A delicious mix.
5.       We also added more reduced sugar dried cranberries and cashews. (Since our grocery store was out of pine nuts so close to Christmas.)

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