Slow Cooked Balsamic Pork Roast

A Happy and healthy way to make enough for two meals for two. The cut is economical, sometimes on sale, and cooks slowly to become moist and tangy.

Ingredients

• 2 lb pork shoulder roast (boneless)
• kosher salt to taste
• 1/2 tsp garlic powder
• 1 tsp red pepper flakes
• 1/3 cup chicken or vegetable broth
• 1/3 cup balsamic vinegar
• 2 Tbsp honey

Directions:

1. Place meat into a crock pot/slow cooker and season with salt, garlic powder and red pepper flakes.
2. Mix broth and vinegar and pour over the pork.
3. Drizzle honey over meat.
4. Cook for 4 hours on High, or 6 -8 hours on Low.
5. Use tongs to remove from slow cooker and lightly pull apart in chunks with fork.
6. Return to cooker and ladle 1/2 cup sauce over and keep warm until ready to eat.

Servings: 8 (3 oz portions); Calories: 214; Fat: 12 g; Carb 4 g; Protein 21g; Sugar 4 g; Sodium 196 mg; Choles: 72mg

Adapted from skinnytaste.com/ and addapinch.com/

Tips: Serve first meal for two with a avocado/tomato/romaine salad and quick saute’d mushroom and broccoli florets.

Tips: Bonus meal: store leftover meat and sauce separately refrigerator. Reheat chopped meat, with sauce, 6 oz broth , chopped mushrooms on stovetop while boiling chopped carrots and new potatoes in saucepan. simmer meat  for 30-45 minutes, add drain veggies and thicken with 1 tbsp. cornstarch mixed in water.