Spicy Cherry Pop Roasted Pork is roasted until fork-tender, with a sweet and savory flavor that makes it a total standout dish. Try it today!
My Pork Recipes are some of my favorite family-friendly meals to serve. Try making my Pulled Pork Nachos or Dijon Cream Pork Chops and let me know what you think in the comments.
Sabrina’s Spicy Cherry Pop Roasted Pork Recipe
This recipe has become a family favorite in my house, even with its less-than-traditional ingredients. My husband and I were at a party and this dish was being served and of course fell in love so I had to ask for the recipe. Now it’s recreated here for you to enjoy! The combination of flavors creates incredibly tender pork that’s as versatile as it is delicious!
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Ingredients
- 5 pound pork shoulder , ("pork Butt")
- 1 teaspoon Kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1 large onion
- 1/2 can chipotle peppers in adobo sauce
- 24 ounces Dr. Pepper
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 cup maraschino cherries , (including juice)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
- Cut the onion into wedges and put it in the bottom of the pot.
- Put the pork on top.
- Season with salt and pepper.
- Add the Dr. Pepper, brown sugar, chipotle peppers in adobo sauce, and cherries with juice.
- Cover and cook for 6 hours.
- Flip the pork a couple of times during the cooking process.
- Shred with a fork.
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Sabrina’s Tips
You can add fresh sour cherries when they are in season. You could use Rainier cherries too. Additionally, I like to let the pork rest for about 10-15 minutes before shredding so the juice has time to redistribute. If there are lots of pan juices left, I spoon them over the pork before serving for even more flavor!
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About this Recipe
Spicy Cherry Pop Roasted Pork is an easy oven-roasted pork recipe with a sweet, smoky, and slightly spicy flavor. As the pork roasts, the sauce becomes rich and flavorful, still keeping the meat tender enough to shred! It’s a great option for family dinners!
Serving Ideas
I serve this pork with Super Creamy Macaroni and Cheese, use it over nachos, or as a taco filling too. You could even use it as a sandwich filling for tomorrows lunch. It is delicious, full of flavor, and is always a hit with everyone who eats it.
Slow Cooker Method
- Add onions to the slow cooker and place the pork on top.
- Season the pork and dump the remaining ingredients in the slow cooker around the pork.
- Cook it on low for 7-9 hours.
- Shred the pork and mix with the remaining ingredients.
- Serve it up with your favorite sides.
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Such a great look. I am salavating here
Yum, I love pork roast! This looks so tasty and I want to try it ASAP. I love that you used pop for this recipe. Dr. Pepper used to be one of my favorite pops to drink.
When I do indulge in soda I always prefer Dr. Pepper too 🙂
That looks so good! I am going to have to try it!
Thanks Autumn! I hope you love it!
I love it when fruits are combined with meat. This looks so delicious and I would love to make this for my family.
Me too! Thanks!
Made with DP…I’m in! Unique list of ingredients but delicious together.
Yup!
This is one of my favorite roast recipes. It is so delicious and the meat just falls apart. I make it all the time. I would definitely recommend this recipe.
Awesome! Thanks Ann!
You can tell that it’s juicy just by looking at it! What a great idea to use cherry pop to help give it a delicious flavor!
Thanks Meagan!
That pork looks so perfect. I bet that spice would really hit the spot, especially with some veggies.
Thanks Liz! Oh yes! My favorite veggie to serve it with is roasted Brussels Sprouts!
This looks SO good. I would love to try this since it’s a bit spicy. My favorite!
Thanks Krystal! It is a bit spicy and the sweet cherries are a fun balance 🙂
I absolutely adore cooking with Dr Pepper! I used to drink it, I quit for health reasons, but I would be lying if I said it wasn’t a very occasional guilty pleasure. Especially now that they’ve started making it with real sugar. Have you tried that stuff (comes in a lime green can)? It’s really, really tasty. 🙂
If you have any other awesome recipes with it, I would totally be open to more! I did see an episode of the chew where they used flat soda and simmered it until it was reduced and used it in a bbq glaze. I thought that was pretty ingenious as I have been guilty of opening a can and completely forgetting it.
I have never cooked with soda either, but I am intrigued! I think I would make this in the slow cooker.
Yeah, it was a new and sort of skeptical experiment. If I saw the recipe having not already tasted the food I don’t know if I would’ve tried it. Plus the idea of cooking with so many chemicals is different for me but then I felt hypocritical because I do occasionally drink soda!
I like pot roast.This recipe looks very good.
Pinned this! I am making it this weekend! Yummy!
Awesome! I hope you love it!
Wow this looks so delicious! I need to take my crock pot out again.
Thanks Elizabeth!
This sounds like a really great dish! I love pork tenderloin and would love to recreate this in the cooler months.
Thanks Amy!
OHHH I have a pork roast in my freezer right now. This is the perfect meal for that! I will be trying this, this week! YUM!
Yay! You have to come back and tell me what you think!
Looks fantastic, thanks for sharing!
This pork looks incredible, and easy, which are too key factors for me if I’m going to try a new recipe 🙂
Paige
Thanks Paige! I hope you try it and love it!
Woohoo! I just posted my cherry pork recipe today, too, haha! Yours sounds fantastic and so simple; I bet it would work nicely in a slow cooker, too.
Great minds! I have to go look at yours now, I love everything you make so I am sure it will be great!
I don’t cook with soda a lot, either, but every now and then it’s awesome in a recipe like this.
Haha, yeah it is such a strange ingredient!
I don’t drink a lot of soda but I’ll use it occasionally for cooking and it adds a nice zing. Love the sound of this with the peppers; will have to try the crockpot version!
This was the first recipe I had ever cooked with soda for. After that I came across the weight watchers cake recipe (cake mix and one diet soda) but other than that, this is it!