Slow Cooker Chinese Hacked Pork

Ingredients

• ¼ cup reduced-sodium soy sauce 
• ¼ cup honey
• 2 tablespoons hoisin sauce
• 4 cloves garlic, chopped
• 2 tablespoons chopped ginger
• 1 teaspoon Chinese five-spice powder (optional)
• 2 pounds boneless center-cut pork roast
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch
• ¾ cup reduced-sodium chicken broth or water
• 2 scallions, thinly sliced

Directions

1. Coat slow cooker bowl with nonstick cooking spray. Place soy sauce, honey, hoisin, garlic, ginger, spice in crockpot and stir to mix. Place pork roast in and spoon some sauce over top. Cover and cook on HIGH for 4 hours or LOW for 6 hours.
2. Remove pork to a large baking dish and keep warm. Pour liquid from slow cooker into a saucepan. In a small bowl, stir cornstarch into broth. Bring liquid in saucepan to a boil and whisk in the broth mixture. Cook for 1 minute.
3. Shred pork into large pieces with two forks; stir in sauce.

Tip: Short on muscles, but have more time?  Add cornstarch mixture to crockpot and let cook for 30 minutes