Slow cooked pulled pork shoulder is a succulent and flavorful dish that is perfect for any occasion. Whether you're hosting a backyard barbecue or simply looking for a comforting and delicious meal, this classic recipe is sure to satisfy. With its tender, juicy meat and smoky, tangy sauce, slow cooked pulled pork shoulder is a dish that everyone will love. From selecting the right cut of pork to choosing the perfect seasonings and cooking technique, there are many factors that go into creating the perfect pulled pork shoulder. But with a little bit of planning and effort, you can easily create a dish that will be the star of your next meal.
Here are our top 8 tried and tested recipes!
PULLED PORK
Provided by Ree Drummond : Food Network
Categories main-dish
Time 10h20m
Yield 16 servings
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Stir together the brown sugar, chile powder, paprika, garlic powder, salt, black pepper and cayenne in a small bowl. Rub the mixture all over the pork shoulder. Wrap the pork in plastic wrap and refrigerate for several hours or preferably overnight.
- Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F.
- Place the pork in a large pot on a bed of the onion halves. Roast until fork-tender and falling apart, about 7 hours. Remove the pork from the pot and set it on a cutting board. Slice some of the onion.
- Place the pot on the stove over medium-high heat and add 1/2 to 1 cup of hot water. Scrape the pan to loosen up the bits and cook for 5 minutes to reduce. Pour in the barbecue sauce and stir to heat.
- Shred the meat with two forks, add the sliced onions to the pork and then toss in the barbecue sauce until it's coated to your liking! Serve on hamburger rolls.
SLOW-COOKED PULLED PORK SHOULDER
Very tasty, very easy pork shoulder recipe. It practically pulls itself. Great for sandwiches, burritos, or with rice. Serve in sandwich buns with your favorite barbecue sauce, if you're so-inclined.
Provided by Dan
Categories Main Dish Recipes Pork 100+ Pulled Pork Recipes
Time 20h10m
Yield 10
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- Place the pork shoulder into the ceramic bowl of a slow cooker. Pour enough water and white vinegar into the slow cooker to assure the pork is completely covered, maintaining a 2-to-1 ratio of vinegar to water. Add the salt. Put the ceramic bowl in the refrigerator and allow the pork to marinate at least 12 hours and up to 24 hours.
- Drain enough of the liquid from the ceramic bowl until about 1/2-inch of pork is left exposed. Add the onion to the remaining liquid. Season the exposed surface of the pork with the cumin, mustard, chili powder, and brown sugar. Place the bowl into the base of the slow cooker and cook on High until the pork is tender and falls apart easily, 8 to 10 hours.
- Carefully remove the pork to a cutting board; shred the meat into strands using a pair of forks. Remove and discard any excess fat.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 235.3 calories, Carbohydrate 13.1 g, Cholesterol 53.6 mg, Fat 13.4 g, Fiber 0.6 g, Protein 14.5 g, SaturatedFat 4.7 g, Sodium 2333.4 mg, Sugar 11.4 g
SLOW COOKER TEXAS PULLED PORK
Slow cooked, Texas-style pulled pork that is served on a buttered and toasted roll. My family's favorite.
Provided by cmccreight
Categories Main Dish Recipes Pork 100+ Pulled Pork Recipes
Time 5h15m
Yield 8
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- Pour the vegetable oil into the bottom of a slow cooker. Place the pork roast into the slow cooker; pour in the barbecue sauce, apple cider vinegar, and chicken broth. Stir in the brown sugar, yellow mustard, Worcestershire sauce, chili powder, onion, garlic, and thyme. Cover and cook on High until the roast shreds easily with a fork, 5 to 6 hours.
- Remove the roast from the slow cooker, and shred the meat using two forks. Return the shredded pork to the slow cooker, and stir the meat into the juices.
- Spread the inside of both halves of hamburger buns with butter. Toast the buns, butter side down, in a skillet over medium heat until golden brown. Spoon pork into the toasted buns.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 527.7 calories, Carbohydrate 45.5 g, Cholesterol 98.4 mg, Fat 23.2 g, Fiber 2.6 g, Protein 31.9 g, SaturatedFat 8.7 g, Sodium 802.7 mg, Sugar 17.1 g
SLOW-COOKER PULLED PORK
Bring out your inner BBQ master with this Slow-Cooker Pulled Pork recipe. Just 10 easy minutes of prep, and then let the slow cooker do most of the work for you. Once the pork roast is cooked and tender, shred it up and choose your level of spice by adding in your family's favorite BBQ sauce for delicious smoky or spicy pulled pork that makes you the kitchen hero.
Provided by By Sarah Caron
Categories Entree
Time 7h45m
Yield 4
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- In small bowl, stir together paprika, salt, garlic powder and brown sugar.
- Spray 5- to 6-quart slow cooker with cooking spray. Rub paprika mixture on pork to cover completely. Place pork in slow cooker. Pour water around pork.
- Cover; cook on Low heat setting 7 to 8 hours or High heat setting 3 to 4 hours, until extremely tender.
- Transfer pork to cutting board. Let rest until cool enough to handle. Use 2 forks to shred pork.
- Discard liquid in slow cooker. Wipe out slow cooker. Spray slow cooker with cooking spray. Return shredded pork to slow cooker; stir in barbecue sauce until well mixed. Cover; cook on High heat setting 10 to 15 minutes or until hot.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 670, Carbohydrate 31 g, Cholesterol 175 mg, Fat 2, Fiber 1 g, Protein 60 g, SaturatedFat 12 g, ServingSize About 1 Cup, Sodium 1410 mg, Sugar 24 g, TransFat 0 g
SLOW-COOKED PULLED PORK SHOULDER
Pork shoulder is brined and cooked 'slow and low' in a slow cooker for a delicious, fall-apart tender pulled pork. From allrecipes.com.
Provided by Munchkin Mama
Categories Pork
Time 20h
Yield 10 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- 1.Place the pork shoulder into the ceramic bowl of a slow cooker. Pour enough water and white vinegar into the slow cooker to assure the pork is completely covered, maintaining a 2-to-1 ratio of vinegar to water. Add the salt. Put the ceramic bowl in the refrigerator and allow the pork to marinate at least 12 hours and up to 24 hours.
- 2.Drain enough of the liquid from the ceramic bowl until about 1/2-inch of pork is left exposed. Add the onion to the remaining liquid. Season the exposed surface of the pork with the cumin, mustard, chili powder, and brown sugar. Place the bowl into the base of the slow cooker and cook on High until the pork is tender and falls apart easily, 8 to 10 hours.
- 3.Carefully remove the pork to a cutting board; shred the meat into strands using a pair of forks. Remove and discard any excess fat.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 416.8, Fat 25, SaturatedFat 8.5, Cholesterol 96.6, Sodium 2948.1, Carbohydrate 14.8, Fiber 0.7, Sugar 12.2, Protein 23.9
SLOW COOKER BBQ PULLED PORK
If you've spent any time on Pinterest or food blogs, you've likely come across a recipe for three-ingredient barbecue pulled pork that can be made in the slow cooker. Methods and ingredients vary, but the recipe almost always calls for boneless pork shoulder, some sort of dark cola (usually Dr Pepper or root beer) and barbecue sauce. Dubious? We were too, so we asked the members of our NYT Cooking Community Facebook page if anyone had ever made it and if they liked it. We received more than 150 very opinionated responses. Many readers have come up with their own clever twists, like using coffee or beer in place of cola, adding onions or chipotles, rubbing the meat with a spice blend and searing the meat before cooking. We tried cooking it a few different ways and found we liked this adaptation best. It calls for a few more ingredients and an extra step or two, but it's got layers of flavor and it's still mostly fuss-free. (You can find the pressure-cooker version of this recipe here.)
Provided by Margaux Laskey
Categories meat, sandwiches, main course
Time 10h
Yield 6 to 8 servings
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- In a small bowl, combine the garlic and onion powders, smoked paprika, salt and black pepper. Rub the spice mixture all over the pork. If you have time, cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 2 hours or up to overnight. If you don't, no worries; proceed to Step 2.
- Lightly grease the crock of a slow cooker. Heat 2 tablespoons vegetable oil in a large skillet over medium-high. Sear the pork until golden brown on all sides, about 2 minutes each side. Add onion, if using, to the slow cooker. Add the pork on top of the onion. Pour soda over the pork and set the slow cooker to low for 6 to 8 hours, until the meat has collapsed and shreds easily.
- Drain most of the liquid from the slow cooker and shred the meat directly in the pot. Add about 1/2 cup of the barbecue sauce and stir to combine. (At this point, if you like crisp bits in your pulled pork, you can spread the shredded pork on a sheet pan and place under a broiler for a couple minutes then return to the slow cooker.) Taste and add more barbecue sauce, hot sauce, salt or pepper, if desired. Serve with soft rolls and extra sauce on the side.
SLOW-COOKED PULLED PORK
Every time I bring this dish to a potluck I get asked, "Where did you get the pork?" People are surprised to hear me say that I made it. When I tell them how simple the recipe is, they are doubly surprised. The two-step process fits the demanding schedule of any teacher-easy to make and easy to serve.-Betsy Rivas, Chesterfield, Missouri
Provided by Taste of Home
Categories Lunch
Time 8h20m
Yield 10 servings.
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- In a small bowl, combine the brown sugar, paprika, 1 tablespoon pepper, salt, chili powder and cayenne. Rub over roast; cover and refrigerate for 8 hours or overnight., Place roast in a 4- or 5-qt. slow cooker. Combine the vinegar, broth, barbecue sauce, Worcestershire sauce, Liquid Smoke, if desired, and remaining pepper; pour over roast. Cover and cook on low for 8-10 hours or until meat is tender., Remove meat from slow cooker; cool slightly. Shred meat with two forks and return to the slow cooker; heat through. Using a slotted spoon, place 1/2 cup on each roll.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 419 calories, Fat 16g fat (5g saturated fat), Cholesterol 81mg cholesterol, Sodium 1076mg sodium, Carbohydrate 36g carbohydrate (5g sugars, Fiber 2g fiber), Protein 29g protein.
SLOW COOKER PORK SHOULDER
Slow cooking delivers lovely tender meat. Cook this shoulder of pork until it falls apart, shred it, then pile into baguettes or serve alongside veg or salad
Provided by Barney Desmazery
Categories Dinner, Main course
Time 8h25m
Yield Serves 6-8
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Remove the fat from the pork shoulder (you can get your butcher to do this bit for you). Season the pork with salt and pepper then heat the oil in a large frying pan over a medium to high heat. Brown the pork shoulder on all sides then transfer to a slow cooker. Add all the other ingredients, then cook on low for 6-8 hours until the meat pulls apart when pressed with two forks.
- Remove the meat, place on a plate and shred it with two forks. Remove the herbs from the sauce and squeeze the garlic cloves out of their skins back into the pot. Put the meat back into its sauce for wonderfully tender and moist slow cooker pork. Serve as an alternative to your Sunday roast with roasted new potatoes, or with a big green salad, mustard and warmed baguettes.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 245 calories, Fat 9 grams fat, SaturatedFat 3 grams saturated fat, Carbohydrate 1 grams carbohydrates, Sugar 1 grams sugar, Fiber 0.3 grams fiber, Protein 34 grams protein, Sodium 0.4 milligram of sodium
Tips:
- Choose the right cut of pork: Pork shoulder (also known as pork butt) is the best cut for pulled pork. It's a tough cut with a lot of connective tissue, which breaks down and becomes tender when cooked slowly.
- Use a good dry rub: A dry rub helps to flavor the pork and create a crispy crust. Look for a rub that includes a combination of spices, herbs, and sugar.
- Cook the pork shoulder low and slow: The ideal cooking temperature for pulled pork is between 225°F and 250°F. This allows the connective tissue to break down slowly, resulting in tender and juicy meat.
- Use a liquid to keep the pork moist: Adding a liquid to the slow cooker helps to keep the pork moist and prevent it from drying out. Common liquids include water, broth, apple juice, or beer.
- Let the pork rest before shredding: Once the pork is cooked, let it rest for at least 15 minutes before shredding. This allows the juices to redistribute throughout the meat, resulting in more flavorful and tender pulled pork.
Conclusion:
Slow-cooked pulled pork shoulder is a delicious and versatile dish that can be enjoyed in many different ways. Whether you're serving it on a bun with barbecue sauce, in a taco, or on top of a salad, pulled pork is sure to be a hit. With the right ingredients and a little patience, you can easily make this classic dish at home.
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