Southern Pulled-Pork Sandwiches
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Everyday Food, May 2008
- Prep Time 10 minutes
- Total Time 2 hours 40 minutes
- Yield Serves 8
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Ingredients
- 1/4 cup packed light-brown sugar
- 1/2 to 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- Coarse salt and ground pepper
- 3 pounds boneless pork shoulder (Boston butt), cut into 4 equal pieces
- 1 1/2 cups cider vinegar
- 4 garlic cloves, minced
- 8 soft sandwich rolls, split
- Store-bought barbecue sauce, for serving (optional)
Directions
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees, with racks in lower and upper positions. In a small bowl, combine sugar, cayenne, 1 tablespoon salt, and 1 teaspoon pepper.
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Place pork in a 5-quart Dutch oven or large heavy-bottomed pot; rub with spice mixture.
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In a medium bowl, combine vinegar, garlic, and 1/2 cup water; pour over pork. Cover pot, and place in oven on lower rack. Bake until pork is very tender and separates easily when pulled with a fork, 2 to 2 1/2 hours.
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Transfer pork to a work surface, reserving pan juices. With two forks, shred meat. Transfer to a large bowl, and toss with pan juices to moisten (you may not need all the juices). Pile pork on rolls, and top with barbecue sauce, if desired.
What a load. 2 1/2 hours at 350 degrees? Not even close to falling off the bone. Notice al the positive reviews say how they used a slow cooker for 8 hours...... wasn't nearly done and had to improvise by making family hot dogs and apologizing. Martha Stewart doesn't know a damn thing. I been cooking professionally for 17 years (way less than her). This will be the last time I take another's advice for a shortcut.
I made this recipe in the slow cooker instead of the oven yesterday. Cooked on low for 8 hours. After 8 hours, I removed the pork, shredded it, and put it back in the slow cooker for another hour (until we were ready to eat) with a little barbecue sauce mixed in. The meat did cook down a little more than I had expected.
This recipe is absolutely wonderful!! It's very easy and the meat is delicious and tender. I'll definitely be making this one again.
This recipe is now a family favorite. It is so tasty and easy to make with readily available ingredients. Love it!
I've made this recipe twice now and each time it has been a great success! Most pulled pork recipes require hours of slow cooking, but you would be surprised at how tender and flavourful the pork is in just two hours.
I also made Martha's homemade BBQ sauce which was a winning combo!
Made this last night on a desire to try something new. Also unexpectedly got guests for dinner. All 4 of us thought it was a very good recipe and it tasted really good. I will definitely use this recipe at our summer place as doubling it will serve a lot of hungry friends cheaply and quickly. Try this, its really tasty. Served it with homemade cole slaw and steamed then pan fried small potatoes. Yum!
This is by far the yummiest pork recipe of the slow cookers on Martha's site. I've made it a few times using slightly more meat-you can adjust the amount-I'm trying it with the bone in today-in a slow cooker on low for about 8 hours that is a 4 lb piece of pork. I never have any leftovers with this dish-It's an easy delicious sandwich-be sure to add some cabbage tossed in rice wine vinegar for the topping. Enjoy!!!
excellent! made it last night and my husband, who hates anything with vinegar in it, couldn't say anything but good things about this meaty sandwich. we can't wait to have leftovers tonight! i used a slow cooker on high for 4-5 hrs. i also used a bone-in shoulder roast and once done i shredded it in the slow cooker to sop up all the wonderful juices....YUM!
This recipe is awesome! The pork was so flavorful and it was so easy to make. I am definitely going to make this again. My boyfriend could not stop telling me how delicious it was while he was eating! I don't have a dutch oven so I used a large pot and reduced the cooking time to about 1 hour and 40 minutes. I used Sweet Baby Rays BBQ sauce which really complimented the flavor of the pork.
This recipe is even easier to do in the crock pot! Just put it in in the morning (on low 6-8 hours) and dinner is ready and waiting when you get home from work! my family LOVES it!
We don't eat pork, can I use beef?
According to the Prep Schedule, you could leave the rub on overnight. When I tried this, juices accumulated in the pot. Should I leave the juices, adding the vinegar mixture to it? Or, should I pour out the juices?
These sandwiches are great! We used a big picnic shoulder ($1.49/pd) and tripled the recipe. It fed my whole family and still had plenty of leftovers all week. I will be making this again and again!!
Definitely a winner.....
I used a 2 lb pork shoulder, and put it all in the crockpot on low for 8 hours. It was very good and moist, and we put it on pitas (ran out of bread!). Added a side of baby spinage salad, and it was a simiple, and yummy dinner.