Slow Cooker Sticky Balsamic Pork

Tonights dinner is a really new addition to our family, I only made it for the first time last week and it blew my mind.  I heart sticky sweet anything and this even better because it sits around in the slow cooker for ages.  I have been looking forward to eating this all day, and even when my day got pretty stressful the promise of this meal carried me through, yeah...thats quite sad!

Diet wise, the wouldn't be an obvious choice for many people as it does contain an eye watering amount of sugar but it should be well within your daily allowance of treats.  I am doing slimming world and the pork works out at about 6-7 syns for half this quantity, mainly down to the fact that pork fillet is so lean.  Speaking of quantity, this amount fed 2 starving and very greedy people! Original recipe from Lets Dish.

Sticky Balsamic Pork

350g Pork fillet

1-2 Cloves garlic

Salt 

1/2 cup water

-Glaze-

1/4 cup Light brown sugar

1 tsp Corn flour

2 tbsp Balsamic vinegar

1/4 cup Water

1 tbsp Soy sauce

Take your pork fillet and score with a knife, rub in crushed garlic with a good pinch of salt

Put pork into slow cooker with 1/2 cup water and set on low for 6 hours or high for 4, keep an eye on the water level, it can dry out

An hour from the end of the cooking time, combine all glaze ingredients in a pan, heat gently whilst stirring, it will get thicker

Pour out most of the cooking water, your pork will look kinda manky at this stage but don't panic

Over the last hour baste your pork several times, it should be falling apart by now and starting to look great

 

We had this with ribboned courgettes (zucchini).   To recreate, just hack at a couple of courgettes with a vegetable peeler making loads of ribbons, add to a hot pan with spray oil, pinch of salt and half clove garlic, keep it moving for about 5 -10 minutes and it should be ready to go