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Joe Green’s Pulled
Pork with Root Beer BBQ Sauce
Ingredients
- Root Beer BarBQ Sauce
- 1 -
2 liter bottle Root Beer
- 1-1/2
- cup apple cider vinegar
- 1/2
- cup ketchup
- 1/2
- cup yellow mustard
- 2 -
Tablespoon lemon juice
- 2 -
Tablespoon Worcestershire Sauce
- 1 -
Tablespoon Tabasco
- 1 -
teaspoon Kosher salt
- 1 -
teaspoon black pepper
- 2 -
Tablespoons cold unsalted butter
- Pulled Pork
- 1 -
8 pound Pork Shoulder
- 2 -
heads garlic, cloves separated and peeled
- Salt
(to taste)
- Pepper
(to taste)
Directions
Root Beer BarBQ Sauce
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In a large saucepan over
medium heat, reduce the root beer to 1 cup for about 1
hour.
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Add the Apple Cider
Vinegar, Ketchup, Yellow Mustard, lemon juice, Worcestershire
Sauce, Tabasco, salt and pepper.
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Stir well and simmer for
twenty (20) minutes.
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Finish the sauce by
whisking in the cold butter for extra body and flavor.
Preheat oven to 225 degrees.
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In a large roasting pan,
place the pork shoulder, fat side up.
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Season well with salt
and pepper to taste.
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Toss two (2) heads of
garlic cloves that have been peeled, but put cloves left whole
around the pork.
- Cover well with heavy-duty aluminum
foil.
- Slow cook in the oven until tender and
falling apart and the internal temperature reaches 160
degrees.
- This should take about 6 to 8
hours.
- Remove from the oven and let the pork
rest for 20 to 30 minutes.
- With 2 forks, pull apart the meat into
small chunks.
- Toss with the root beer BBQ sauce and
serve.
Place into thermal container. At the
picnic or tailgate site, remove from thermal container.
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