Slow Cooker Pork Tinga with Potatoes, Avocado and Fresh Cheese is a game day favorite! Tender pork and potatoes are slow cooked with chipotles and fire roasted tomatoes and served with tortillas, ripe avocado, and fresh cheese!
This recipe originally appeared on Cooking In Stilettos in February of 2010. The recipe has been updated with new photos and any recipe changes that I have incorporated over the years. This post may contain affiliate links to products I adore and use in my kitchen. Thank you for supporting Cooking In Stilettos.
In Rick Bayless’ Mexico – One Plate At A Time, Rick Bayless mentioned his Pork Tinga recipe which apparently was the best thing ever according to his daughter. I filed that recipe in my mental “must try” recipe box. While in the grocery store, I saw a gorgeous cut of pork that was on sale and thought “No time like the present” as I was craving some seriously good tacos for dinner.
I love using a slow cooker when it comes to pork. My favorite slow cooker has a stovetop safe inset which makes things so easy when it comes to browning the meat and you don’t lose any of the flavor that is on the bottom of the pan. I tend to use a bit of water or broth and deglaze the pan after browning so every bit of flavor is incorporated into the sauce. Plus, as you know, I’m a fan of any slow cooker recipe that is essentially “set it and forget it”.
While it takes some time, I have to tell you that patience is your friend when it comes to this dish. I caught the sous pug more than once pacing in front of the slow cooker due to the aroma wafting through the house.
My local grocery store had queso blanco on hand which was the perfect cheese for this but if you can’t find queso blanco or queso fresco, feel free to use a mild feta cheese. As I’m a spice wuss, I decided to forgo the chorizo sausage and improvised with fresh Italian sausage that I browned with the pork. There are so many levels of flavor in this dish from slow cooked pork and potatoes to the chipotle chile to the fire roasted tomatoes to the zip of the lime when you squeeze it over the top. To cool it off a bit, you can drizzle a little Mexican crema over the top. Like I said, I’m still a novice when it comes to all things spice but this heat was “good heat”. I could only handle one (big) chipotle pepper and that little thing packs a punch!
This Slow Cooker Pork Tinga with Potatoes, Avocados and Fresh Cheese would be a great addition to any game day or tailgate festivities. Now that’s a touchdown if I ever saw one.
On to the recipe:
Lining Up The Ingredients
Cubing up the pork
The fire roasted tomatoes, chipotle and onions are essentially the sauce
Now this, my friends, is a game day must!
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