Try these pulled pork tacos made with slow cooker Mexican pulled pork! The pork is rubbed with spices, slow-cooked, shredded and served with tortillas in tacos or burritos.

Photography Credit: Elise Bauer

Pulled Pork Tacos

Do you know what a cook lives for?

The look in friends’ eyes when they’ve bitten into something you’ve made, and they’re deliriously happy about what they’re eating.

Their wide-eyed smiley faces would say, “OMG, WOW,” if they weren’t so busy eating and wanting to be polite and not talk with their mouths full.

That’s the response I got from my friends when I served them pulled pork tacos made with with this slow-cooked Mexican pulled pork.

Of course, how could you not love slow cooker pork tacos filled with spicy shredded pork?

How to Make Slow Cooker Pork for Tacos

Best thing is, pulled pork tacos are crazy easy to make, especially in a slow cooker.

Rub a pork shoulder roast with a blend of ground chiles and spices Let the roast sit in that rub for a while Brown the roast Slow cook the roast until it’s fall-apart tender Take a couple forks and pull it apart into tasty shreds Serve your tacos!

P.S. You can also make this recipe in your pressure cooker or Instant Pot. Here’s the recipe.

A Tip for the Best Pulled Pork Tacos

Browning the roast first will help pull out wonderful flavor from the meat as well as intensifying the spice from the chiles and cumin. If you have the kind of slow cooker that allows you to do that in the cooker pan itself, great! Then you only need one pot.

Otherwise, you can easily brown the pork roast on the stovetop. You can also skip the browning, though I don’t recommend it, it really does make a difference with the resulting flavor.

More Ways to Use This Pulled Pork

Besides tacos, you can use this pulled pork to make tamales, enchiladas, burritos, or even a quick weeknight quesadillas.

Or try these great ideas.

How to Store or Freeze this Pork

This pulled pork will keep refrigerated for about five days, or frozen for up to three months.

If freezing, pack in freezer bags with as much air pressed out as possible to prevent freezer burn. Thaw overnight in the fridge and warm over low heat on the stovetop or in the microwave.

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