Recipe: Perfect Pulled Pork

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Pulled Pork. We love a classic pulled pork sandwich. But every once in a while, we want to pull our pork in a slightly different direction. Here are seven ways to go!

Pulled Pork Place the pork in a large pot on a bed of the onion halves. There's nothing like an overstuffed pulled pork sandwich on a game day. Slow-cook the meat and dig in with coleslaw and pickles. You can have Pulled Pork using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Pulled Pork

  1. You need 4 lbs of pork butt or shoulder.
  2. It's 3 tbs of brown sugar.
  3. Prepare 3 tsp of salt.
  4. It's 1 tsp of ground mustard.
  5. Prepare 1 tsp of black pepper.
  6. Prepare 1 tsp of onion powder.
  7. Prepare 1 tsp of paprika.
  8. It's 1/2 tsp of garlic powder.
  9. Prepare 1/4 tsp of cayenne pepper.
  10. It's 1 cup of apple juice.
  11. It's 1 tbs of Worcestershire sauce.
  12. Prepare 1 tsp of liquid smoke.
  13. It's 2 cups of or so Bbq sauce of your choice.

Trim excess fat from pork and cut into large pieces to fit in a large Dutch oven. In a small bowl, combine brown sugar, salt, paprika, garlic powder, onion powder. Texas-style pulled pork simmers in a tangy chili-seasoned barbecue sauce with plenty of onion, then pulled into tender shreds to serve on a buttered, toasted bun. Let's pick out the perfect pork shoulder for your perfect pulled pork.

Pulled Pork step by step

  1. Trim fat from pork roast. Cut roast into 4 pieces..
  2. Add all dry ingredients to a bowl and whisk together. Add pork roast chunks to bowl and make sure well coated..
  3. Add pork loin in a 4 - 6 quart crock pot or instant pot pressure cooker and pour in apple juice, Worcester and liquid smoke..
  4. Cover and cook in crock pot until fall apart tender - low 8 to 10 hours, high 5-6 hours. In the instant pot make sure lid is not venting, set manual cook for 45 minutes. Open steam vent at end if cook time, remove lid when safe..
  5. Remove pork to a large bowl and shred with 2 forks. Add your favorite BBQ sauce as desired. Or use the juice from crock pot – it’s loaded with awesome flavor!.

Make sure your pork shoulder has a layer of fat on the bottom: It should also have a bone going about halfway through it. (It doesn't go all the way through. Pulled pork is perfect for the slow cooker. Cooking the pork low and very slow is the secret to the juiciest and most tender pulled pork. Serve the pork as is or feel free to stir in your favorite barbecue or other sauces at the end of cooking. Pulled pork is exactly what a slow-cooker is meant to be used for—to slowly braise food, in a steamy environment until exceedingly tender.