Pulled Pork Tacos With Red Cabbage Slaw

These Pulled Pork Tacos with red cabbage slaw are a really simple way to use up leftover pulled pork using our deliciously smoky Chipotle Paste.

However, if you have decided to make the pulled pork from scratch, we recommend making a big batch the day before, perhaps freeze some, and then enjoy it throughout the week in tacos!

If we talk about recipes that are perfect for batch cooking, pulled pork has to be at the top of the list. What’s not to love about a Mexican Pulled Pork? A big piece of meat is infused with our famous Chipotle Paste, and slowly cooked until tender. It can later be used as one main meal as well as a few quick lunches!

A slow cooker is a perfect way to achieve this, but if you don’t own one you can also cook your meat in the oven. If it’s the latter, we recommend you cut your meat into smaller pieces and place them into a baking dish with the rest of the ingredients. You can then cover tightly with tin foil and cook at 160°C/320°F for 5-6 hours. Just make sure to check your meat from time to time and add water to prevent it from going completely dry.

If Red cabbage slaw isn’t your thing then you could try these Pulled Pork Tacos with our Mexican Corn recipe.

Do leave your comments below, and be sure to check out our other Mexican slow cooker recipes!

Prep time

15 mins
Cook time

6 hours
Total time

6 hrs 15 mins
Ideal for

Lunch
Make it

Mexican
Serves

6

This recipe uses

Chipotle Mayo

Smoky Chipotle Fajita & Taco Mix

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Ingredients

FOR THE PULLED PORK

1.5 kg of pork shoulder (boneless and with no rind just a bit of the fat, ask your butcher to prepare it for you)
1 cup of orange juice
½ cup of apple cider vinegar
1 tbsp rapeseed oil
1 red chilli (finely chopped)
1 fennel bulb (finely chopped)
4 spring onions (finely chopped)
Handful of fresh coriander (finely chopped, including stems)
1 tsp ground cumin
1 bay leaf
3 smoked garlic cloves (minced)
1 tbsp Chipotle Paste
1 tbsp salt
Freshly ground black pepper

QUICK RED CABBAGE SLAW

½ of red cabbage (thinly sliced)
1 red onion (thinly sliced)
1 red chilli (finely diced)
1 tbsp Smoky Chipotle Fajita & Taco Mix
1 lime
2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil

TO SERVE

3 cups of fresh salad leaves
1 jar of Chipotle Mayo or 1 jar of Tomatillo Salsa
Soft Taco Wraps
3 limes

Ingredients

FOR THE PULLED PORK

1.5 kg of pork shoulder (boneless and with no rind just a bit of the fat, ask your butcher to prepare it for you)
1 cup of orange juice
½ cup of apple cider vinegar
1 tbsp rapeseed oil
1 red chilli (finely chopped)
1 fennel bulb (finely chopped)
4 spring onions (finely chopped)
Handful of fresh coriander (finely chopped, including stems)
1 tsp ground cumin
1 bay leaf
3 smoked garlic cloves (minced)
1 tbsp Chipotle Paste
1 tbsp salt
Freshly ground black pepper

QUICK RED CABBAGE SLAW

½ of red cabbage (thinly sliced)
1 red onion (thinly sliced)
1 red chilli (finely diced)
1 tbsp Smoky Chipotle Fajita & Taco Mix
1 lime
2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil

TO SERVE

3 cups of fresh salad leaves
1 jar of Chipotle Mayo or 1 jar of Tomatillo Salsa
Soft Taco Wraps
3 limes

How to make it

Step 1 – We recommend doing this in the morning so it’s ready to eat later that day. If you are having them for lunch, perhaps do the pork the day before

Step 2 – Do this 30 min before eating

Place the meat in the slow cooker and all the ingredients listed for pulled pork. There is no specific order or fancy way about it! Just add all the ingredients into the slow cooker, cover with a lid and let it cook on the high mode for 5 to 6 hours
Prepare the quick pickle by adding into a bowl the cabbage, red onion, red chilli, Smoky Chipotle Fajita & Taco Mix, lime juice, extra virgin olive oil, a pinch of salt and freshly ground black pepper. Mix everything with a spoon, taste and adjust seasoning if necessary, reserve
After 6 hours of cooking uncover your pork and shred the tender meat with the help of two forks. Mix in with the juices
Warm up your Soft Taco Wraps
Once everything is ready, build your tacos using the warm Soft Taco Wraps, pulled pork, quick red cabbage pickle, fresh salad leaves, a squeeze of lime, and finally a dollop of Chipotle Mayo!