I made mine last night which is always a huge hit. My husband told a friend how I make it (which is my sister's fiance's recipe) and he had never heard of the recipe.
So I'm just curious...how do you make your pulled pork bbq?
I was wondering if anyone else used soda!! I cook mine in a crock pot (sorry 8kidsdad!! I don't know how to smoke!!) with Root Beer. My husband and kids looked like they would be sick the first time I did it, now it makes me the best mom ever to make it :).
I use spices, normally salt, pepper, garlic powder, and onion powder as a dry rub before I put it in.
Then I use Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce and we're done :).
It is probably the only time I ever use a crock pot. I am anti crock pot except for this.
I put seasonings on it and slow cook it until it falls apart and then pull it and put good BBQ sauce on it.
I am not big on sweet meats.. We like ours savory..
I do ours in the crock pot. I think this is a Bobby Flay recipe.
2 to 3 lb pork shoulder
3 carrots grated
1 large white onion sliced
salt and pepper
1 TBL, liquid smoke
Favorite BBQ sauce. Not sure if you can get this kind up there..
Stubbs, Austin's Best
place sliced onions into the crock pot first
add the shredded carrots
place the salt and pepper the shoulder on top of onions and carrots
pour on the liquid smoke
add 1/4 cup of water. Cover and cook on low for 6 hours.
When done. take 2 forks and shred the meat mixing with the onion and carrots, pour on the sauce. If you like a lot of sauce add a lot, we like ours just covered.
Place cover on top and cook another 30 minutes to an hour.
Serve on kaiser roll with sliced pickles, raw onions and more sauce..
I laugh at all the ladies that use a crock pot for their pulled pork. Its just funny.
I put my pork in a throw away pan on a metal trivet. Then I rub it all over with BBQ spices (dry rub). I place it on my bbq grill and fill the bottom of the pan with water up to the top of the trivet. I use BBQ briquettes and mesquite wood. I smoke it for 4 to 6 hours, adding water when needed to keep water in the pan. I add the water from the bottom of the pan to my BBQ sauce for a more smokey flavor. (If you add the water from the bottom of the pan to the BBQ sauce, you cannot allow it to evaporate and burn.)
When the meat falls away from the bone, I bring it in the house, pull the bones out and using a fork separate the meat. Then I add my favorite BBQ sauce.
I sometimes serve the shredded pork on a salad and put italian salad dressing on it. (I've tried other flavors of salad dressing and italian works the best.) It really makes a WOW bbq salad.
Good luck to you and yours.
Why don't you share your recipe??
M
It's covered in my secret dry rub, then smoked low and smoke with combinations of wood. After 13-14 (or so) hours, it's pulled out of the smoker, pulled and mixed with my secret BBQ sauce.
Crock Pot
Pork Shoulder
In a HOT crock pot place the shoulder fat down in the crock pot. Season with Lawry's Garlic Salt and Pepper (COVER WELL).
Cook for 4hrs in crock pot on high
Add bell peppers - Red, Orange in slices not rings
Add Sauce (see below)
Cook another 2hrs
Test meat if it pulls nicely then pull and remove from heat - if not then keep cooking another hour. Honestly this should not take more than 8hrs to be ready.
BBQ sauce - Tomato Sauce, Brown Sugar (Dark), Maple Syrup, Mustard, Apple Cider Vinegar, MORE BROWN SUGAR!! Cook on stove - this is a mix of ingredients, keep light on the Vinegar and the Maple Syrup mix to taste and consistancy - I like it THICK.
I coat the entire pork butt with my secret rub (email me if you would like the recipe..lol). Sometimes I brown it on the outside, other times not. Then I either grill until done or throw it in the oven for a few hours. Once it's ready, I just pull it apart in a bowl and mix in the vinegar sauce (also a secret recipe that I'll gladly give out). It's ready!
You could also use the sweet barbeque sauce. Here in NC, there are two types. The above described is Eastern style pork BBQ. Also, the term "BBQ" here implies pork not beef. I have never tried my pork rub and sauce on beef.
Pork butt in the Crock Pot with a little water and cook all day, shred, add bottled bbq sauce. Awesome!
I put it in the crock pot all day with a cup of coffee and a cup of beef broth, some salt and pepper. Then I pull it. That's it. The family LOVES it.
This question made me laugh, because I make pulled pork pretty often, and my family goes nuts for it. Little do they know I stick the meat in a crock pot with a seasoning packet I buy at the grocery store, some vinegar and some ketchup! lol It's so simple, so cheap, and they eat until they are stuffed every time I make it!
That's so funny! I just made pulled pork in the crock pot for the first time the other day and the recipe called for a cup of ginger ale. I also used Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce. I found the recipe on the internet.
I served it at a very big dinner party and it was a hit.
More often I use beef. But I make them the same.
Meat & onions into a crockpot. No added liquid. Cook until it's falling apart. Shred meat & onion with 2 forks. Add BBQ sauce. (I usually mix apricot preserves into the BBQ sauce whether it's from a bottle of homemade BBQ sauce.
This Q was a cliffhanger! Gonna share your recipe? :)
This is my favorite recipe: http://www.food.com/recipe/pulled-pork-crock-pot-131018
Everyone LOVES it.
We have never smoked ours- which I guess is the 'right' way to do it? We do have a smoker so I swear we will some day.
I put a bunch of pork roast in the crock pot, slow cook it with potatoes and carrots and seasoning and onion. We enjoy the pork roast with veggies that night.
Next night, I dump all the leftover pork and a jar of barbecue sauce (we only use Stubb's) and heat it through, pulling apart any big chunks.
So yum!
