Pulled Pork
- Ready In:
- 48hrs 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 5
- Yields:
-
8-10 sandwiches
- Serves:
- 8-10
ingredients
- 3 -4 lbs pork butt
- 1 -2 teaspoon oil
- 8 cups water
- 1 1⁄2 cups barbecue sauce
- salt and pepper
directions
- Preheat your oven to 350.
- In a large, overproof pot or dutch oven heat oil (I use bacon grease) over medium-high heat.
- Brown the pork roast on all sides, giving special attention to the fattier parts to allow some of the fat to render out.
- Pour water over the roast and add salt and pepper.
- Cover pot and put in the oven.
- Roast for ~ 2 hours until meat is tender.
- Remove from oven and allow to cool enough to put in fridge overnight.
- The next day skim the solidified fat off of the top of the broth.
- Place pork roast in crockpot.
- In a bowl mix broth with BBQ sauce.
- Pour this braising sauce over the pork and cook it low and slow for ~ 8 hours. This is a good "set it in the morning and eat it for dinner" dish, btw.
- Once cooking is complete, remove the pork from the pot and shred it in a bowl. There should be very little fat left in the meat at this point. Don't throw out the braising sauce!
- Reserve some sauce for spooning over the meat (I keep it in a squeeze bottle) and freeze the rest for later. You can use the frozen sauce for dipping/smothering some other lucky cut of meat sometime later. Or, keep it for the next time you make pulled pork and half the work is done for you already.
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