Juicy Oven Pulled Pork Recipe

My pulled pork recipe ensures completely seasoned, melt-in-your-mouth tender pork. You’ll love our easy seasoning mix and straightforward oven technique! This recipe is a keeper!

This simple pulled pork is completely satisfied meals. It’s good for crowds, events, and making forward of time. I like it piled onto tender rolls, served as sliders, in tacos, and scattered on high of salads.

This recipe requires cooking the pork in a low oven, just like how we bake ribs. The decrease oven temperature and longer cooking time assure tremendous tender meat. For extra like this, I additionally love our sluggish cooker pulled pork, pulled rooster sandwiches, and in the event you love Tex-Mex, I extremely advocate our carnitas recipe.

Key Elements

• Pork: Use boneless or bone-in pork shoulder for this recipe (generally known as Boston butt or pork butt). It’s a tricky minimize and does effectively when cooked over an prolonged interval. It’s additionally well-marbled with fats, stopping the pork from drying out. Because the pork cooks, the fats melts and kind of self-bastes throughout cooking.
• Brown Sugar and Spices: You’ll rub the pork with our easy spice rub made with brown sugar, salt, black pepper, chili powder, and cumin.
• Garlic and Tomato paste: The garlic infuses the pork because it slowly cooks, and the tomato paste provides shade, richness, and umami to the cooking liquid.
• Apple cider vinegar: Provides a slight tanginess and helps to tenderize the pork. With out it, the pork tastes flat. Including the vinegar wakes the whole lot up.
• Fish sauce or Worcestershire: Select one or the opposite. They season the cooking liquid and add a pleasant burst of umami, which makes the pulled pork much more scrumptious.

Find out how to Make Pulled Pork

Cooking the pork low and sluggish is the key to tender pulled pork (the identical goes for pot roast and beef stew). After we use extra marbled cuts of meat, like pork shoulder, cooking at a decrease temperature for an prolonged interval ensures that the robust minimize of meat transforms to be tender and fall-apart-tender. The gelatin within the shoulder breaks down because it slowly cooks, which is why slowly cooked pork shoulder is so good.

To make oven pulled pork, you’ll rub it throughout with our do-it-yourself spice rub, then sear it on all sides in a big Dutch oven on the range. Then add some water and all the opposite substances to the pot, being cautious to scrape up as a lot of the caught bits on the underside of the pot as you possibly can (howdy, taste!). Then, you’ll add the lid and bake till fork tender.

Pulled pork takes 2 to 4 hours in a low oven (about 300°F). You might be cooking it till fork tender, so the cooking time may range relying on what number of kilos of meat you’ve.

Because the pork cooks, the fats melts down. Earlier than serving, we skim a few of this fats from the cooking liquid. How a lot fats you skim from the cooking liquid is totally as much as you. I like to go away just a little behind. Then, you possibly can shred or pull the pork into chunks and serve nevertheless you want! I like it on tender buns with creamy coleslaw or sliced dill pickles.