Sous Vide Pulled Pork Mexican Lettuce Wraps

Loaded with Mexican flavor and only 15 minutes of prep, this sous vide pulled pork folded in fresh lettuce leaves is the perfect way to keep weekday low-carb meals exciting.

If you’ve got a busy schedule, you know how boring and repetitive weekday meals can be. You can only stand to eat chicken and vegetables so many nights in a row, but on the other hand, there’s only so much time you can free up to grocery shop, meal prep, and cook.

What’s really needed is something that requires minimal prep and is healthy, packed with flavor, and can be enjoyed in many different ways.

Enter these tasty sous vide pulled pork Mexican lettuce wraps. Rather than ordering take-out from your favorite Mexican joint and regretting it later, spice up your meal rotation with this recipe. It’s rich in flavor and low on prep time (fifteen minutes to be exact).

The beautiful thing about using sous vide cooking for this pork shoulder recipe is that once you’ve completed the prep and lowered the pork into the sous vide machine, it cooks to tender, juicy, perfection as you go about your day. You don’t need to do a thing until the timer goes off (except bask in the heavenly aromas coming from your kitchen).

The sous vide pulled pork gets its authentic flavor by being soaked in a homemade chipotle sauce as it cooks for 24 hours.

I use the same sauce to make my all-time-favorite beef barbacoa. Now that I’ve experimented using this sauce with pork, I’m very pleased to say that it works wonders! While chipotle peppers in adobo sauce are the key ingredient, you probably have many of the other spices needed already kicking around in your kitchen cupboard.

Best of all, this chipotle sauce is sugar-free, and all of the ingredients have anti-inflammatory properties. So, you can indulge in this sauce knowing it’s doing your body good.

Served in lettuce wraps instead of corn or flour tortilla shells for a low-carb meal, and topped with avocado and red onion, this sous vide pork shoulder recipe is keto- and paleo-friendly. It’s also loaded in fiber, vitamins, and minerals to fuel your busy schedule.

Don’t Have A Sous Vide Machine? Use A Slow Cooker

If you are not into or not ready for sous vide cooking yet, you can always use a slow cooker to make this recipe. All you have to do is to place the pork shoulder at the bottom of the slow cooker and pour the chipotle sauce over. Cover and cook on low for 8 hours. Once done, use two forks to pull apart the meat to enjoy. However, the texture of the meat will taste drastically different compared to sous vide.

What to Do with Your Leftover Sous Vide Pulled Pork

There are many other ways to repurpose and enjoy this tender pork:

• Add to an omelette;
• Make a burrito bowl with corn, shredded lettuce, cheese, guacamole and sour cream;
• Add to a bun and make pulled pork sandwiches. Serve with a side of coleslaw for an awesome summer barbecue recipe;
• Add to grilled cheese sandwiches;
• Make some egg benedicts with it.

As you can see, cooking up a batch of sous vide pulled pork can go a long way, which also makes it a great Sunday meal prep hack.

Are you up for trying another sous vide pork recipe? If so, you might like this Honey Dijon Sous Vide Pork Shoulder.

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