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Slow Cooker Bacon Garlic Pork Loin is a take on my most popular recipe, Brown Sugar Garlic Pork made for the slow cooker and with bacon in just 5 ingredients!

Slow Cooker Pork Loin in just 5 ingredients!

Crock Pot Pork Loin Is Here!

Slow Cooker Bacon Garlic Pork Loin is a play on my most popular recipe that has over half a million views in its first year, Brown Sugar Garlic Pork Loin. On an almost daily basis readers would reach out to me to ask if the recipe could be made in a slow cooker and for months I said: "no, sorry there isn't enough fat in the pork loin to keep it moist, this is best done in the oven."

Well, those days are over! I began testing the recipe a couple of months ago for a slow cooker version. I kept pork loins untrimmed, I added all varieties of fats, I even tried injecting the pork to keep it moist. No bueno. I finally decided it was time to take this pork show to the next level and go pork on pork.

This slow cooker pork loin Has Just 5 Ingredients!

Michael Symon would be proud of this recipe which is my original recipe wrapped in thick cut bacon and cooked to delicious pork perfection. Here is a look at the long list of ingredients.

Ingredients for slow cooker pork loin laid out on baking sheet

Just kidding! This Slow Cooker Bacon Garlic Pork Loin is 5 ingredients (not counting salt and pepper) and the hardest part of the prep is mincing the garlic. I add it to the slow cooker in true to my blog fashion, with no liquids. Don't worry as it cooks it will release liquids into the slow cooker.

pork loin cooked in crock pot

Crock Pot Pork Loin Tips

Give the Slow Cooker Bacon Garlic Pork Loin a rest for about 10-15 minutes (this may be the hardest wait of your day) and then slice into portions. I find ½ inch slices are best, and I serve 2-3 slices per person depending on size of appetite.

Moist slices of Slow Cooker Pork Loin wrapped in bacon

In case you need a delicious side dish for your Slow Cooker Bacon Garlic Pork Loin you can make my Parmesan Garlic Crash Hot Potatoes I shared earlier this week, or your favorite green vegetable or Roasted Carrots.

crock pot pork loin wrapped in bacon served with broccoli and potatoes

We're huge bacon fans around these parts… so much so that the official blog assistant (read: husband) stole a solitary piece of bacon from the end of the loin and said "What? It was basically falling off?!" Note: It was not.

Looking for more awesome Brown Sugar Garlic Recipes?

Brown Sugar Garlic Oven Baked Pork Chops
Brown Sugar Garlic Pork with Carrots and Potatoes
Bacon Brown Sugar Garlic Chicken
Slow Cooker Brown Sugar Garlic Chicken

Tools Used In This Recipe:

Slow Cooker: Love this slow cooker and how programmable it is, it has been a workhorse for me… until…
My New Slow Cooker: This recipe was made in this slow cooker.
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▢ 3 pound pork loin , trimmed of excess fat
▢ 1 tablespoon canola oil
▢ salt and pepper , to taste
▢ 4 garlic cloves , minced
▢ 1/3 cup light brown sugar
▢ 8 slices thick cut bacon

Rub the tablespoon of canola oil and add Kosher salt and fresh cracked black pepper to taste.
Add the garlic and brown sugar to the top of the pork.
Wrap the pork with the bacon (I wrapped all the way around, if you want to drape them over the top you can as well.)
Place carefully into the slow cooker and cook on low for 4-5 hours.
If you finish the cooking time and for some reason the bacon is not as crispy as you would like, remove the pork and put it on a baking sheet in the oven on broil for 2-3 minutes (keep the pork in the middle of the oven, not too close to the top).

Keyword: Slow Cooker Bacon Garlic Pork Loin

Slow Cooker Pork Loin wrapped in bacon on serving dish with vegetable sides

perfectly cooked crock pot pork loin with garlic and bacon

Slow Cooker Bacon Garlic Pork Loin is a take on my most popular recipe, Brown Sugar Garlic Pork made for the slow cooker and with bacon in just 5 ingredients! dinnerthendessert.com

Sabrina is a professionally trained Private Chef of over 10 years with ServSafe Manager certification in food safety. She creates all the recipes here on Dinner, then Dessert, fueled in no small part by her love for bacon.

Sabrina Snyder is a professionally trained personal and private chef of over 10 years who is the creator and developer of all the recipes on Dinner, then Dessert.

She is also the author of the upcoming cookbook: Dinner, then Dessert – Satisfying Meals Using Only 3, 5 or 7 Ingredients which is being published by Harper Collins.

She started Dinner, then Dessert as a business in her office as a lunch service for her coworkers who admired her lunches before going to culinary school and becoming a full time personal chef and private chef.

As a personal chef Sabrina would cook for families one day a week and cook their entire week of dinners. All grocery shopping, cooking and cleaning was done along with instructions on reheating. As a private chef she cooked for private parties and cooked in family homes in the evenings for families on a nightly basis after working as a personal chef during the day.

Sabrina has been certified as a ServSafe Manager since 2007 and was a longstanding member of the USPCA Personal Chef Association including being on the board of the Washington DC Chapter of Chefs in the US Personal Chef Association when they won Chapter of the year.

As a member of the community of food website creators Sabrina Snyder has spoken at many conferences regarding her experiences as a food writer including the Indulge Food Conference, Everything Food Conference, Haven Food Conference and IACP Annual Food Professionals Conference.

Sabrina lives with her family in sunny California.

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