Slow Cooker Pork Stew over Brown Rice

495 min · Serves 8

Based on a recipe from MyPlate National Strategic Partners The Grain Chain, via USDA MyPlate Kitchen

What goes in

• 2 lblean pork stew meat
• 3 cupsbaby carrots
• 1large onion, sliced
• 7.4 mldried thyme leaves
• 2½ mlcoarse ground black pepper
• 1.2 mlsalt
• 1garlic, minced
• 1½ cupscomplete bran and wheat flakes ready-to-eat cereal
• 1 cupdried tart cherries
• ¾ cup100% apple juice or apple cider
• 4 cupshot cooked brown rice

How to cook it

1. Trim any visible fat from the pork pieces.
2. Coat a large skillet with cooking spray and brown the meat in two batches.
3. In a 4- to 6-quart slow cooker, layer the carrots, onion, thyme, black pepper, salt, and minced garlic, then scatter the crushed cereal and dried cherries across the top.
4. Arrange the browned pork over the cereal layer and pour the apple juice or cider over everything.
5. Cover the slow cooker and cook on Low for 7 to 8 hours, or on High for 3 1/2 to 4 hours, until the meat is thoroughly tender.
6. Cook the brown rice according to package directions during the final 45 minutes of the stew's cooking time.
7. Give the stew a good stir and ladle it over 1/2-cup portions of the warm brown rice.

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