Chinese Style Pork Shoulder

Simmer Ingredients

• 1 bone-in pork shoulder
• Garlic salt
• 1 cup dried wild mushrooms
• 1 tbsp ginger powder
• 1/2 cup sherry or brandy
• Water

Sauce Ingredients

• 1/2 cup soy sauce
• 1/2 cup rock sugar

Directions

1. Thoroughly wash the pork shoulder.
2. Sprinkle both sides of the pork shoulder with garlic salt.
3. Place seasoned pork shoulder with remaining simmer ingredients in the slow cooker, use enough water to cover the pork shoulder or as much as the pot will allow.
4. Cook on high for 6 hours or low for 10 hours.
5. Remove pork shoulder from slow cooker, place aside.
6. Spoon out 1 cup of broth and filter away solids.
7. Season remaining broth with salt to taste. Great as a soup or stock base.
8. In a dutch oven, mix soy sauce, filtered broth and rock sugar over medium heat. Cook for about 3-5 minutes until the mixture is slightly sticky. Note that rock sugar may not have completely dissolved by this point, that is fine.
9. Turn heat to simmer, add in pork shoulder, and cook for 10 minutes.
10. Flip to another side of the pork shoulder that has not been simmered in sauce, and cook for another 10 minutes.
11. Continue until all sides of the pork shoulder have been simmered in sauce.
12. It may be more convenient to first cut the pork shoulder into pieces, then simmer the individual pieces in sauce.
13. Serve pork shoulder with remaining sauce.