BBQ Pulled Pork
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Combine ingredients for bbq sauce in saucepan, and simmer 20 minutes. Pour sauce over pork. This can be cooked in the oven on low heat for 4 hours or until it is falling apart. Easier still, and good for if it is too hot out to have the oven on all day is to make it in a crockpot (on low, all day 8-10 hrs or until falling apart). Shred the meat, and pile on soft rolls. Eat with lots of napkins!!
Introduction
This makes a traditional BBQ pulled pork that you can eat on it's own, or as we prefer, as a sandwich for when you want REAL BBQ! I also use this BBQ sauce on ribs, chicken, etc. The sauce keeps well, refrigerated.
Ingredients
Serves: 4
- ¾ cup tomato ketchup
- ¾ cup water
- ¼ cup vinegar (apple cider or white wine or can use lemon juice)
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon freshly ground pepper
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- 1 teaspoon dried mustard powder
- ¼ teaspoon ground cumin
- 1½ tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- 1 teaspoon chili powder
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- ½ cup minced onions
- 1 clove minced garlic
- 3 pounds boneless pork shoulder (but any inexpensive cut you like it fine)
Method
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Show more commentsMy family loved this recipe. Thank you so much for sharing. It has been requested for lunch again next Sunday!
The bbq sauce is very thin but tastes ok. I cooked it for 8 hours on low in my slow cooker and it fell apart lovely.
Worked very well, here are my tips: I put a lid on my Pyrex dish and it worked fine I cooked at 130 degrees Celsius (fan oven) for 8 hours After removing the pork which fell apart as lifted out, I reduced the sauce on the hob for 10-15 minutes Once mixing the dressing with pulled meat, i stored and re-heated fine i.e. can be made in advance.
Really good recipe! I've found that if you pour the sauce into a pan after the meat has cooked and reduce it on a medium heat for about 30 minutes, it makes a thicker BBQ sauce which can then be poured onto the meat. This also works especially well for the left overs - just put the pulled pork into a small pyrex dish, add the sauce and then bake in the oven until heated through.
Hi, I found that this had to be cooked for much longer than 4 hours. I also had to cut it up into chunks later as the meat didn't fall apart. I cooked mine on 130 celcius.
More of a question than a comment, but does anyone know if you can make the sauce the night before so I can put it in the slow cooker before going to work? Even better if I can marinade the pork the night before. Thanks Kim
Does it need covering in the oven?
Can I make the bbq sauce and add it to the meat later.