Pulled Pork - VeryVera

Pulled Pork

  • Prep Time: 15m
  • Cook Time: 4h

Ingredients

Pork

  • 4 lb boneless pork shoulder
  • 3 tbsp. packed brown sugar
  • 1 tbsp. kosher salt
  • 1 tbsp. smoked paprika
  • 1 tsp. garlic powder
  • 1 tsp. ground cumin
  • freshly ground black pepper
  • 2 tbsp. vegetable oil
  • 12 oz lager

Sauce

  • 1 1/2 c ketchup
  • 1/3 c apple cider vinegar
  • 1/2 c Dijon mustard
  • 1/4 c brown sugar
  • 2 tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
  • buns, for serving

Instructions

Pork

  1. Preheat the oven to 300°. Trim excess fat from the pork and cut into large pieces to fit them in a large Dutch oven.
  2. In a small bowl, combine brown sugar, salt, paprika, garlic powder, and cumin, then season with black pepper. Rub all over pork.
  3. In a large Dutch oven over medium high heat, heat oil. Working in batches, add pork and sear on all sides.
  4. Pour beer around the pork and cover with a lid. Transfer to the oven and cook until pork is beginning to turn tender, about 3 hours.
  5. Remove the lid and cook until the pork is very tender and pulls apart easily with a fork, about 1 to 2 hours more.
  6. Remove the pork from the Dutch oven and let it rest while you prepare the barbecue sauce.

Sauce

  1. To the pan drippings in the Dutch oven, whisk in the ketchup, apple cider vinegar, mustard, brown sugar and Worcestershire.
  2. Over medium-high heat, bring the mixture to a boil. Reduce heat, and simmer until thickened slightly, about 5 minutes.
  3. Shred the pork using two forks. Toss the shredded meat with about half of the barbecue sauce.
  4. Serve warm with buns and more barbecue sauce.