Dearest readers and eaters, thanks for joining me for Tasty Tuesday 012021. On this blustery winter day, I am sharing a recipe for slow cooker pulled pork chili. We enjoyed a high of 71*F yesterday and even soaked in the hot tub before the sun went down. But today, our high is 25* lower and the winds are really whipping around. Decided it was the perfect day for a chili and cornbread supper.
Let’s Get Cooking: Slow Cooker Pulled Pork Chili
I have only made pulled pork chili once before. Used this recipe that first time and it was quite delicious. One of my winter bucket list activities (update coming later this week), though, is to try some new recipes. So I scoured Pinterest yesterday for a different version of this hearty dish. When I read the ingredients for Debi’s chili, I knew I had found my new recipe to try.
Grab your crock pot and meet me in the kitchen!!
Ingredients
This recipe earns extra credit at our house because it can be thrown (and forgotten) in the crock pot. But there was also one ingredient that caught my eye and told me this was a recipe I had to try. And that rhymes!!
Can you guess which one?
I’ll give you a little hint. It’s in the center of that photo. Yup, unsweetened cocoa. If we’ve gone out for Mexican food together, you probably remember how much I love mole poblano. Of which sweet chocolate is a main ingredient. I could eat my weight in mole. And double my weight eating it!! You can read more about this incredible sauce, here.
Seeing cocoa in this pulled pork chili almost ensured – for me – that it was going to be savory, rich and delicious. Here’s what else the recipe calls for.
Jodie
Oooh…we put the cocoa in some of our smoothies. It’s such a great way to make it feel like a treat. I used it once for a mole, and I bet I’d love it in this chili.
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Jodie
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Leslie Roberts Clingan
Oh, try it, Jodie!! So good!! We need to try cocoa in our smoothies. Thanks for the inspo.
Danielle
I can just smell my house reading this! I love a good chili recipe, and have never thought of making it with pulled pork! I will have to give this one a try for sure. Thanks for sharing!
Leslie Roberts Clingan
The pulled pork really makes this chili recipe heartier. More filling. PC was in pig heaven with all the meat!
Leslie Roberts Clingan
The pulled pork makes it heartier. PC loves it. Hope you will give it a go!
Bojana Krienke
I am pinning this for later! I think my whole family would be into this recipe and I’ll have to find a few ingredients including the bourbon, I definitely want to try it like that.
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Leslie Roberts Clingan
Hey, not sure why this recipe won’t pin. Ugh!! Technology.
Sent the pin to you. Thank you for trying.
Bojana Krienke
Hmmm. I am not sure if it’s me, but I couldn’t get it to pin on Pinterest. Any thoughts?
Leslie Roberts Clingan
Oh my…Let me see. I have trouble with that. Thanks!
Joanne Tracey
I too tend to use a recipe as a starting point. It’s about making it your own. This sounds yummy indeed.
Leslie Roberts Clingan
Thank you, Joanne, I am glad I am not the only one. When I tasted the ‘finished’ chili I knew I had to jazz it up a bit.
Joanne
That sounds so good! My husband and older son just loved pulled pork so I bet they would devour this. Pinned.
Leslie Roberts Clingan
Oh, try this chili, Joanne. The guys will thank you!!
Carrie
This sounds and looks so delicious! I wish you were my neighbor and I stop over and try it. Perfect for these chillier winter nights in Texas.
Leslie Roberts Clingan
Ha! We would never get anything done if we were neighbors…a whole lot of visiting, and that’s it. This chili was really tasty. Hope you will try it.
Carrie @ Curly Crafty Mom
I really want to try this, that unsweetened cocoa sounds like an interesting ingredient and one that is worth adding! Ha, ha! 🙂 I hope you’re family is doing well. Brian got his second Covid vaccine yesterday and had no symptoms this time around. SO weird, but good!
Carrie
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Leslie Roberts Clingan
Hallelujah for Brian…no symptoms with his second vaccine. So glad. Praying my mom doesn’t either.
Please try the chili, it is delish.
Lysha
This sounds and looks so delish. Pinning!
Leslie Roberts Clingan
Thank you, Lysha. It was really yummy. And more substantial than regular chili.
Laura Bambrick
Yum!! We absolutely love chili here! I will need to try this recipe soon! My husband likes to smoke meat which often means we have lots of leftover pulled pork and I am trying to reinvent it different ways. That will be perfect in this recipe!
Leslie Roberts Clingan
Oh, Laura, hope you will try this chili. It really was yummy. And if you have smoked pork, half the work is done!!
Jill
I love chili and anything that can be made in the crockpot! This sounds delicious! Love that there’s a little cocoa powder in it!
Jill – Doused in Pink
Leslie Roberts Clingan
Thanks, Jill. The cocoa really gave the meat a great flavor. Would be yummy just in tacos.