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This isn’t your average pulled pork recipe. You can get deep flavor with a can of lager and a delicious Carolina vinegar sauce—without a smoker. Bring your beer to a boil in a Dutch oven and bake your pork shoulder. After a few hours, you can pull it and top it with the sweet and vinegary Carolina sauce. Serve up a sandwich your customers will crave—and come back for.
Pulled Pork
YIELD: 16 Servings
AMOUNTS | MAIN INGREDIENTS |
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1 EA. | Pork Shoulder with skin and bones (about 8 LB.) |
1 TBSP. | Salt-free Cajun Seasoning |
1 tbsp. | Salt (Optional) |
12 oz. | Bottled Lager Beer |
16 Ea. | Soft Buns (Potato Buns) |
Carolina Vinegar Sauce
YIELD: 16 Servings
AMOUNT | MAIN INGREDIENTS |
2/3 cup | White Distilled Vinegar |
1/3 cup | Tomato Ketchup |
1/2 tsp. | Hot Red Pepper Sauce |
Pulled Pork
Step 1: Preheat oven to 325°F
Step 2: Using a sharp knife, score skin of pork shoulder, taking care not to cut into flesh, with lines running the length of the shoulder spaced 1 inch apart.
Step 3: Rub Cajun seasoning and salt, if using, evenly all over pork.
Step 4: Place pork in hotel pan, skin side down, and pour beer around pork.
Step 5: Bring beer to boil over high heat. Cover tightly, transfer to pre-heated oven to cook for 2 hours.
Step 6: Turn pork over, putting any skin that sticks to bottom of pan back on top of pork. Return to oven, uncovered, until pork is fork-tender, 1 1/2 to 2 hours more.
Step 7: Remove from oven. Let pork rest, covered, for 30 to 60 minutes.
Step 8: While pork rests, prepare Carolina Vinegar Sauce.
Step 9: Transfer pork to chopping board.
Step 10: Pour off pan juices into glass bowl; let stand.
Step 11: Using a knife, cut pork off bone. Using two forks, pull pork into shreds or chop with knife, discarding fat and rind as desired. Transfer to a large bowl.
Step 12: Skim off and discard yellow fat from pan juices; stir juices into pork.
Step 13: Serve pork on buns with Carolina Vinegar Sauce on the side for drizzling on the pork.
Carolina Vinegar Sauce
Step 1: In a small bowl whisk vinegar, ketchup and hot sauce. Set aside.