Slow Cooker Pork Green Chili Recipe

What can you get done in just five minutes flat? Lots, really. You can change a lightbulb, brush your teeth and wash and moisturize your face, send a quick and thoughtful note to a friend or relative, make your bed and straighten the room, prepare a truly sumptuous slow cooker pork green chili dish that will tantalize any who taste it, or get in a quick set of crunches, pushups, and jumping jacks to help keep yourself limber and trim.

What? No, that wasn't a mistake about the chili. Provided you can wait six hours while the meat cooks to tender perfection once you have done that lightning-fast prep, that really is all it takes, says chef, food writer, and registered dietician Kristen Carli. 

"This is ideal for busy weeknights," says Carli of this "very simple" recipe. You just pop everything into your slow cooker and let it do the rest of the work, then later, at dinner time, you can enjoy this winning main course however you'd like with only another one or two minutes needed to shred and serve the perfect pork.

Let's tell this story two ways, the short way, then the long. Short story first: Place all slow cooker pork green chili ingredients in the slow cooker and cook on low for at least six hours. There! Basically a whole recipe in a few words! Not bad.

But for a bit more nuance, the longer version goes like this: Place the approximately two-pound pork roast into the slow cooker, then top it with the entire contents of the jar of green salsa, the can (or jar) of green chilis, the salt and pepper, and two generous teaspoons of minced garlic, spreading the ingredients out evenly on and around the meat.

Now, cook the pork on your slow cooker's lower heat setting for at least six hours or up to eight hours. Done. And still a pretty short tale, all told.