Although you can very much find Mexican food like tacos and burritos in just about any part of the country, Mexican-style shrimp cocktails don’t seem to have taken off elsewhere. Instead, they are primarily seen on menus in the Bay Area of California. You can adapt it to suit your tastes by using these ingredients and quantities as a general reference.
| Prep Time: | 10 mins |
| Cook Time: | 10 hrs 30 mins |
| Total Time: | 10 hrs 40 mins |
| Servings: | 10 |
| Yield: | 10 servings |
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons kosher salt
- 2 teaspoons ground black pepper
- ½ teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 (5 pound) bone-in pork shoulder roast
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
- 1 teaspoon liquid smoke flavoring
- ½ large head cabbage, shredded
Instructions
- Mix kosher salt, black pepper, and ground ginger in a bowl; rub evenly into surface of pork roast; place seasoned roast in a slow cooker.
- Stir soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce, and liquid smoke together in a bowl; pour over the pork roast.
- Cook on Low 10 hours. Add cabbage to the pork and sauce in the slow cooker; cook another 30 minutes. Shred pork to serve.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 502 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 5 g |
| Cholesterol | 130 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Protein | 30 g |
| Saturated Fat | 14 g |
| Sodium | 3899 mg |
| Sugars | 3 g |
| Fat | 41 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Excellent recipe..we think we are in Hawaii!
I love pork and my slow cooker! This is such a tasty recipe! I usually put this together with Kim’s macaroni salad from here, and some pineapple. Much cheaper than a trip to Hawai’i! But sooooo good!
The whole family absolutely loved this! I didn’t change a thing to the recipe, it’s perfect as it is. I served it with rice and chopped pineapple on the side. Fabulous!
This recipe has become a family favorite. It is so good and a good way to feed a crowd
Nice and easy and very delicious. We paired it with the coconut lime rice.
I made this without the cabbage and added an extra TBL of soy sauce. 10hrs on low and it turned out fantastic. Stored the leftovers in the juices and leftovers were even better. This will be a recipe that I will use a lot in the future.
It was so yummy! Made adjustments as I saw in other reviews (less salt, extra ginger, extra liquid smoke, head of cabbage). Thank you!!
Added onions and garlic, extra liquid smoke to this dish with white rice is traditional…
Amazing. Great taste
For someone who doesn’t cook often, it was simple and easy to prepare. Turned out great.
Kalua pork is one of my favorites, so I was happy to find a recipe (and a slow cooker one makes it even easier). This was very good, but mine was a little too salty. I didn’t pay attention to how big the roast was, and I probably should have cut down on the salt a little. Next time, I will take note of the size and probably reduce the salt regardless.
Too salty. Would recommend cutting salt in half. Had to add a couple tbsps of brown sugar to balance.
I really liked it, but I did tweak the recipe a bit. Half the liquid smoke, 1tsp garlic, 1Tbs brown sugar Though I love cabbage, I found it was “unnecessary” and would delete it from original recipe. The next day I added the juice of 3 oranges, more garlic, onion powder, cumin and and fried it in lard (can be baked in a covered Dutch oven) and made carnitas out of the leftovers, it was excellent!
This was amazing! Having never been to a luau, I wasn’t sure how it was served so I served over rice. It definitely is a keeper!
My family loved it! I did take the advice of others and halve the salt and added 1 TB of brown sugar. I had a smaller roast as the family wasn’t really eating a lot of pork recently. But that being said, everyone loved it and were disappointed there were no leftovers! Next time the 5 lb roast for sure!
Good dish, but thought flavor was lacking a bit. Next time I would probably double the ginger and wet ingredients, and add some red pepper flakes and some chili powder.
My family loved it. I used all the ingredients as called out(except cabbage) but I made it in my Instantpot instead of the crock pot. Because I cooked it this way, I actually cut up the meat in bigger chunks maybe 2-3″, I put those in a bowl and and tossed the dry mixture on the meat to evenly cover, then I poured the wet mixture and tried to evenly cover as well. I added 3/4 of a cup of water to the base of the instantpot, put the meat in, covered, set it for 40 minutes and did a natural release of 15 minutes at the end. Then shredded and served. All of my family loved it and thought it tasted just like what we order from our favorite Hawaiian restaurant.
Being from Hawaii, I had to try this recipe as printed, and everyone loved it!! I have tried other recipes for Kalua pork, but this one is a winner!!
Just like our favorite restaurants in Kona.
Seasonings do not overwhelm the pork. Substituted 2 tablespoons minced fresh ginger for dried. Used low sodium soy sauce. Trimmed fat off the pork shoulder. Have made this several times already
I served this with white rice cooked with a miso broth. This turned out amazing. I cooked the cabbage in the broth of the pork so it soaked in the flavors. Family loved it!