• Home
  • Email List
  • Cookbooks
  • FAQs
  • Instant Pot Secrets
  • Sponsor Me

365 Days of Slow Cooking and Pressure Cooking

Easy slow cooker and Instant Pot recipes for each day of the year

  • Filter Recipes
  • Instant Pot
  • Slow Cooker
  • Chicken
  • Beef
  • Pork
  • Meatless
  • healthy
  • Soups

January 14, 2020

Slow Cooker Honey Garlic Pork

  • Pinterest
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
Jump to Recipe·Print Recipe

Slow Cooker Honey Garlic Pork—A 5-ingredient recipe for the tastiest and easiest pork lettuce wraps ever! 

Pin this recipe for later!

Related: INSTANT POT honey garlic pork recipe

chopped romaine lettuce on a white plate with ground meat and rice on top

Slow Cooker Honey Garlic Pork

This recipe was a happy accident! I had a pound of ground pork that needed to be used up and this is how it got used. The flavors in this honey garlic pork are so tasty and the best part is that it’s ingredients you probably already have at your house: soy sauce, honey and garlic.

This meat tastes so great rolled up in butter lettuce leaves. Butterhead lettuces are tender, with loosely-coiled leaves. The leaves are almost never limp or weak. They have a bit of crunch. You can find butter lettuce in a plastic clamshell case with a root still attached.

If you don’t want lettuce wraps you can easily chop up some romaine or cabbage leaves and spoon the meat and rice mixture over the top. You could also buy a package of Asian salad mix with wontons, carrots and cabbage and serve it over that…delicious! Sort of like my Instant Pot Egg Roll Bowls.

I used parboiled rice in this recipe. I got a comment on my youtube channel about using parboiled rice and it intrigued me so I tried it. I got a bag of it at Walmart, next to the normal rice. Parboiled rice might sound like it’s precooked, but it’s not. Instead, it’s processed quite differently from other types of rice. The resulting grain is cooked and served just as you would white or brown rice. However, because of the special processing, parboiled rice is less sticky than normal long grain or jasmine rice. Plus it is a better source of nutrition. If you’re not a fan of sticky rice and want the grain kernels more separated try out parboiled rice!

Try these other slow cooker favorites…

Slow Cooker Chicken Lettuce Wraps

Slow Cooker Korean Beef Tacos

Slow Cooker Orange Chicken

Pin this recipe for later!

chopped romaine lettuce on a white plate with ground meat and rice on top
Print
clock clock iconcutlery cutlery iconflag flag iconfolder folder iconinstagram instagram iconpinterest pinterest iconfacebook facebook iconprint print iconsquares squares iconheart heart iconheart solid heart solid icon

Slow Cooker Honey Garlic Pork


★★★

3 from 3 reviews

  • Author: 365 Days of Slow and Pressure Cooking
  • Prep Time: 5 minutes
  • Cook Time: 4-6 hours
  • Total Time: 41 minute
  • Yield: 4 servings 1x
Print Recipe
Pin Recipe

Description

A 5-ingredient recipe for the tastiest and easiest pork lettuce wraps ever! Pin this recipe for later!


Ingredients

Scale
  • 1 pound ground pork (you can also use ground chicken, turkey or lean beef)
  • 4 cloves garlic, minced
  • 3/4 cup water
  • 1/4 cup low sodium soy sauce
  • 3 Tbsp honey
  • 1/2 cup uncooked long grain white rice or jasmine rice

Instructions

  1. Add the pork, garlic, water, soy sauce, honey and rice into the slow cooker. Stir to break up the pork.
  2. Cover and cook on low for 4-6 hours, or until pork and rice are cooked through.
  3. Remove the lid. Stir a bit. Scoop the meat and rice over chopped romaine, use it in lettuce wraps, over chopped cabbage or plain. Eat and enjoy!
  • Category: Pork
  • Method: Slow Cooker
  • Cuisine: Asian

Did you make this recipe?

Tag @365dayscrockpot on Instagram

Want more tried and true slow cooker recipes?

Sign up for my free emails (fill out the form below) and you’ll receive an email each time something new is on the site.

*Karen Petersen is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.

  • Pinterest
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Pinterest
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

11 Comments Filed Under: 5 ingredients or less, All Recipes, Asian, Beef, Can Be Gluten Free, Chicken, Healthy, Pork, Turkey, Rice, Slow Cooker

Recommendations

Comments

  1. Nicole Willard says

    January 10, 2023 at 4:50 pm

    This was delicious! I added celery and peppers to it and it gave it more depth. Like another reviewer suggested, instead of water, I added broth. I may add ginger and five spice next time. I will definitely be making it again.

    ★★★★

    Reply
    • Karen says

      January 10, 2023 at 8:34 pm

      Thanks Nicole! So glad you enjoyed it!

      Reply
  2. Judy says

    November 18, 2022 at 12:23 am

    Had to add some chilli for warmth and flavour. Served with cucumber, Spring onion and carrot slivers in lettuce cups.
    Otherwise a simple basic recipe.

    ★★★

    Reply
  3. Erin says

    August 6, 2021 at 1:48 pm

    Since it’s made with ground meat, couldn’t this be cooked faster on the stovetop?

    Reply
    • Karen says

      August 6, 2021 at 9:46 pm

      I’m sure it could! For those that are looking for slow cooker this is a version for them.

      Reply
  4. Kim Coomer says

    February 7, 2021 at 5:33 pm

    I’m going to use chicken broth instead of water and a cup

    Reply
    • Karen says

      February 8, 2021 at 12:30 pm

      Good plan!

      Reply
  5. Kayla Dawn Skinner says

    November 5, 2020 at 2:47 pm

    Do you brown or cook the pork at all before putting it into the slow cooker? Or do you put it in Raw?

    Reply
    • Karen says

      November 9, 2020 at 12:57 pm

      For this recipe I put it in raw.

      Reply
  6. Brooke says

    November 1, 2020 at 5:30 pm

    Some of the rice didn’t cook, should I have layered it with the rice first?

    ★★

    Reply
    • Karen says

      November 2, 2020 at 5:12 pm

      I would just cook longer until the rice is cooked. All slow cookers cook differently. I’d turn to to high and let the rice cook longer.

      Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recipe rating ★☆ ★☆ ★☆ ★☆ ★☆

Welcome!

Karen photo

Hi, I’m Karen. I know that dinner time can be less than relaxing. Busy schedules and cranky kids and a hundred other things can lead to weariness when it comes to putting dinner on the table. I can help! I make homemade, family-friendly slow cooker and Instant Pot dinners and share the recipes with you.

Stay In Touch

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • YouTube

Recent Posts

Categories

Archives

Amazon Associates Disclosure

Karen Petersen is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.

365 Days of Slow Cooking © 2023 · Privacy Policy

MENU
  • Home
  • Filter
  • Instant Pot
  • Slow Cooker
  • Chicken
  • Beef
  • Pork
  • Meatless
  • Healthy
  • Soups
  • Email List
  • Cookbooks
  • FAQs
  • Instant Pot Secrets