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Perfect pulled pork recipe

BY Rachel Walker

1st Jan 2015 Recipes

Perfect pulled pork recipe
This is an American barbecue favourite. Slow cooked, succulent pork roast served in a delicious BBQ sauce. Follow our authentic recipe and you’ll have tender, smoky and juicy pulled pork to impress all your friends and family to enjoy.
It’s useful to have a recipe up your sleeve for feeding a crowd. Pork shoulder has “the perfect ratio”: low-effort, but high-impact. It’s a doddle to make, but it always has people hopping about with excitement.
Pulled pork also has the advantage of being a forgiving recipe. I’ve suggested five hours’ cooking time, but when a big cut is being cooked at 150C, it doesn’t matter if five hours turns into six. So if you get distracted then it’s not a disaster. The meat will still happily pull off the bone and make a lot of people happy when stuffed in a roll.
 

Ingredients (serves eight)

  • 2 onions, diced
  • 4 cloves of garlic, crushed
  • 150ml vegetable oil
  • 150ml white-wine vinegar
  • 400g tin of chopped tomatoes
  • 150g brown sugar
  • 50ml Lea & Perrins
  • 2tsps dried mustard powder
  • 3kg pork shoulder, bone in
  • 8 buns
For the coleslaw
  • ½ white cabbage, finely sliced
  • ½ red onion, finely sliced
  • 2 carrots, peeled and grated
  • 2tbsps plain, unsweetened yogurt
  • 1tbsp mayonnaise
  • 1tbsp red-wine vinegar
  • ½ lemon, juiced 
  • Salt
  • Pepper

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