Pulled pork is a classic barbecue dish that is beloved for its tender, juicy meat and flavorful sauce, and pickled onion adds a tangy and crunchy contrast. Whether you're a seasoned grill master or a beginner in the kitchen, crafting the perfect pulled pork and BBQ sauce with pickled onion can seem like a daunting task. But with the right recipe and a little preparation, you can easily whip up this delicious meal that will impress your family and friends.
Check out the recipes below so you can choose the best recipe for yourself!
AWESOME PULLED PORK BBQ
This is a pulled pork BBQ that is sure to please everyone's taste. Best to use a slow cooker!
Provided by Randy
Categories Main Dish Recipes Pork 100+ Pulled Pork Recipes
Time 10h30m
Yield 10
Number Of Ingredients 20
Steps:
- Place pork in a slow cooker and season to taste with garlic powder, poultry seasoning, salt, and pepper. Add quartered onion, apple, and 3 celery stalks. Pour chicken broth into slow cooker.
- Cook on Low until very tender, about 8 hours. Transfer pork to a large platter and discard juice and vegetables. Shred pork with a fork and return to the slow cooker.
- Prepare barbecue sauce while pork is cooking. Melt butter in a large saucepan or small Dutch oven over medium heat; cook and stir 2 cups celery and 1 1/2 cups onion until onion is translucent, about 5 minutes. Add ketchup, water, vinegar, brown sugar, Worcestershire sauce, mustard, liquid smoke, and 1 tablespoon garlic powder; mix. Reduce heat to low and simmer, stirring occasionally, until sauce is thickened, about 10 minutes. Pour barbecue sauce over shredded pork.
- Continue cooking pork on Low heat until flavors combine, about 2 hours.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 548.1 calories, Carbohydrate 44.2 g, Cholesterol 131.5 mg, Fat 23.5 g, Fiber 2 g, Protein 41.4 g, SaturatedFat 10.7 g, Sodium 1513.8 mg, Sugar 37.4 g
PULLED PORK WITH ORANGE BARBECUE SAUCE
Boneless pork shoulder is cooked with a tangy sweet sauce made with orange juice concentrate-and the result is meltingly tender and totally delicious.
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Ingredients Meat & Poultry Pork Recipes
Time 4h20m
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Season pork with salt and pepper. Add to a large, straight-sided skillet along with onion and 1 1/2 cups water. Cover with parchment-lined foil and transfer to oven. Cook 2 hours.
- Meanwhile, in a medium saucepan, combine 1 teaspoon salt, juice concentrate, ketchup, brown sugar, vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, and hot sauce. Bring to a simmer and cook until mixture has thickened, 18 to 20 minutes. Reserve 1 3/4 cup sauce.
- Remove skillet from oven and coat pork with sauce. Return to oven and cook, uncovered, until tender, about 2 hours, basting pork with sauce every 15 minutes. Skim fat, and shred pork and toss with reserved sauce to serve.
PULLED PORK AND BBQ SAUCE
This is a thinner southeasten style pulled pork sauce that is designed to either be incorporated into pulled pork shreds, or as a drench on a pulled pork sandwich. It is very sweet and tangy. Be careful with the cloves, some are much stronger than others. Also, cayenne may be added for a little heat if desired.
Provided by Smoky Okie
Categories Sauces
Time 45m
Yield 20 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- Combine all ingredients except butter and soy in saucepan.
- Simmer 30 minutes stirring often.
- Add butter and soy.
- Stir until butter is incorporated.
- May be tossed into freshly pulled pork, or used on pulled pork sandwiches.
- To build the perfect pulled pork sandwich, put a slice of onion on a slice of white bread, add a layer of pulled pork, drench with sauce,repeat, cover with a slice of white bread, then pig out,mmmmessssy, but delish.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 74.4, Fat 1.8, SaturatedFat 0.8, Cholesterol 3, Sodium 237, Carbohydrate 14.7, Fiber 0.7, Sugar 13.5, Protein 0.8
BARBECUED PORK SANDWICHES WITH PICKLED RED ONION
Provided by Cheryl Alters Jamison
Categories Sandwich Citrus Fruit Onion Pork Fourth of July Backyard BBQ Lunch Meat Pork Tenderloin Summer Tailgating Bon Appétit Dairy Free Peanut Free Tree Nut Free Soy Free
Yield Makes 6 servings
Number Of Ingredients 21
Steps:
- For onion:
- Place sliced onion in medium bowl. Pour boiling water over. Let stand 10 minutes; drain well, then return to bowl. Add juice, vinegar, and salt and stir to blend. Cover and chill at least 2 hours and up to 1 day.
- For vinaigrette:
- Chop garlic with salt to paste; scrape into small bowl. Add barbecue sauce, orange juice, and lime juice to bowl. Gradually whisk in oil. Season vinaigrette to taste with pepper. DO AHEAD Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and refrigerate.
- For pork:
- Blend pepper, smoked paprika, and salt in small bowl. Sprinkle seasoning mix evenly over both tenderloins. Let stand at least 30 minutes and up to 2 hours.
- Spray grill rack with nonstick spray. Prepare barbecue (high heat). Grill tenderloins uncovered 5 minutes, rolling over to sear all sides. Cover grill and continue to cook until thermometer inserted into thickest part registers 145°F, turning often and moving to cooler part of grill as needed, about 15 minutes longer. Transfer to cutting board; let rest 10 minutes.
- Thinly slice tenderloins crosswise into rounds. Mound pork on roll bottoms. Top with well-drained onion slices, then drizzle with vinaigrette. Cover with roll tops and serve, passing extra onion slices and vinaigrette separately.
ROUND 2 RECIPES -PULLED PORK SLIDERS WITH MUSTARD BBQ SAUCE AND PICKLED ONIONS
Steps:
- In a medium pot over medium heat, combine all pickled red onion ingredients, except onions. Bring to a boil, add the onions and remove from heat. Let sit until cooled about 1 hour. Serve with sliders.
- In a small pot over medium low heat, whisk all the BBQ sauce ingredients together. Cook for 3 minutes or until hot and then remove from heat.
- Place a heaping tablespoon of pulled pork of the bottom of a roll. Drizzle with the barbeque sauce, top with some of the pickled red onions and then place the remaining roll halves on top. Repeat with remaining ingredients and serve.
- 1 head red cabbage, shredded
- 4 medium carrots, coarsely grated
- 1/4 cup cider vinegar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- Place the onions in the bottom of a 5-quart slow cooker. Place the pork shoulder, fat and skin side up. in the slow cooker. In a medium bowl stir together soy sauce, garlic, salt pepper and orange marmalade. Pour mixture over the pork. Cover and cook on low for 8 hours.
- Remove shoulder to a serving platter and let rest for 5 minutes. Break up some of the meat with a fork and arrange on platter. Leave the rest of the meat on the bone to keep it warm and moist and let your guest pull it off the as they need it.
- Wrap the tortillas in damp towels, 10 to a towel and microwave on high for 30 seconds. Set out pork and tortillas with Cabbage Slaw and have guests assemble their own tacos.
- Combine shredded cabbage and grated carrots in a large bowl. Add vinegar, salt, and pepper and toss to combine. Cover with a damp towel and let sit in refrigerator for at least 1 hour or up to 8 hours. Use as topping for pulled pork tacos.
BBQ PULLED PORK FROM LEFTOVER SAUCE RECIPE BY TASTY
Here's what you need: pork shoulder, onion, garlic, paprika, salt, tomato sauce, light brown sugar, apple cider vinegar
Provided by Vaughn Vreeland
Categories Dinner
Yield 8 servings
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Put all of your ingredients in a crock pot.
- Cook on low for 8 hours or high for 4 hours, until fork-tender.
- Shred with two forks and combine with the sauce on the bottom of the pot.
- Enjoy!
Nutrition Facts : Calories 437 calories, Carbohydrate 24 grams, Fat 22 grams, Fiber 1 gram, Protein 35 grams, Sugar 21 grams
ANYONE CAN MAKE BBQ PULLED PORK
If you got a hankering for a good BBQ sandwich, break out the slow cooker and you are on your way to a great meal!
Provided by JOYCE
Categories Main Dish Recipes Pork Pulled Pork
Time 8h45m
Yield 12
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Cut several slits into the fatty side of the pork shoulder. Insert garlic slices into slits. Transfer pork to a slow cooker, fat side up.
- Mix coffee, onion, Worcestershire sauce, and liquid smoke in a bowl; pour over pork.
- Cook pork on Low until very tender, about 8 hours. Carefully remove pork from slow cooker to a large plate; discard excess fat. Shred pork with 2 forks or by hand.
- Reserve about 1/2 cup juices from the slow cooker; discard remaining liquid. Return shredded pork and juices to slow cooker and season with red pepper flakes, salt, and pepper. Add barbeque sauce and stir.
- Heat pork on Low until sauce is hot, about 30 minutes more. Pile pork over toasted buns to serve.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 454.7 calories, Carbohydrate 38.2 g, Cholesterol 74.5 mg, Fat 22.4 g, Fiber 1.8 g, Protein 23.3 g, SaturatedFat 7.4 g, Sodium 750.1 mg, Sugar 10.8 g
PULLED PORK SANDWICHES WITH PICKLED ONION SLAW
This was published in the September 2012 Ladies' Home Journal and I didn't want to lose the recipe! Fast and easy meal, especially when serving a large group of people.
Provided by moose_kristi
Categories Pork
Time 7h15m
Yield 8 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Sprinkle salt over entire pork shoulder and place in a slow-cooker with crushed garlic, cumin seeds and 1/4 cup vinegar. Cover and cook on low heat for 7 hours or high heat for 5 hours. Pork should shred easily and be very tender.
- Meanwhile, make slaw by whisking together remaining 1/4 cup vinegar, sugar and celery seed; toss with onions. Let sit up to 3 hours. Stir in cilantro just before serving.
- Remove pork from juices and cool slightly, then shred and cut into small pieces. Strain juices and pour off fat. Mix 1 cup of the juices with barbeque sauce and hot sauce to serve with pork; discard remaining juices.
- Serve pork on brioche buns piled with onion slaw and drizzled with sauce. Pork can be made a day in advance.
Tips:
- To achieve tender and juicy pulled pork, choose a pork shoulder or pork butt with good marbling. These cuts have a higher fat content that breaks down during cooking, resulting in flavorful and moist meat.
- Enhance the flavor of your pulled pork by using a flavorful rub. Combine spices, herbs, and salt to create a rub that complements the pork's natural flavors. Popular spice combinations include garlic powder, onion powder, paprika, chili powder, and cumin.
- Cook the pulled pork slowly and low. The low temperature allows the connective tissues in the pork to break down, resulting in fall-apart tender meat. Aim for a cooking temperature between 225°F and 250°F (107°C and 121°C) and cook the pork for 8-12 hours, or until it reaches an internal temperature of 200°F (93°C).
- Use a liquid to keep the pulled pork moist during cooking. This can be water, chicken broth, apple cider vinegar, or beer. The liquid helps prevent the pork from drying out and adds additional flavor.
- For a smoky flavor, consider using a smoker or adding liquid smoke to the cooking liquid. Liquid smoke is a concentrated form of smoke that can be added to food to impart a smoky flavor without the need for a smoker.
- Once the pulled pork is cooked, shred it using two forks or with the help of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Shredded pork is easier to serve and enjoy.
- Serve the pulled pork with your favorite sides, such as coleslaw, baked beans, or mashed potatoes. You can also use pulled pork as a filling for tacos, burritos, or sandwiches.
Conclusion:
Pulled pork is a versatile and flavorful dish that can be enjoyed in many different ways. Whether you're hosting a backyard barbecue or simply looking for a hearty and satisfying meal, pulled pork is sure to be a crowd-pleaser. With careful preparation and cooking, you can create tender, juicy, and flavorful pulled pork that will be a hit at any gathering.
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