Pulled Pork Crockpot Recipe
Are you looking for some delicious one of a kind bar-b-que? Look no further. You have finally arrived! This one will need to be cooking all night while you’re sleeping! We want it to cook extra long and slow.
Ingredients:
4 pound pork roast (shoulder or butt)
2 large onions
1 cup ginger ale
1 bottle BBQ Sauce (your favorite flavor)
BBQ Sauce for serving (optional)
Hamburger Buns
Directions:
Slice onion and place in bottom of the crock pot. (Onion has already been sliced and frozen if you’re following my freezer to slow cooker plan. ) Put in the roast and cover with the other onion . Pour ginger ale over the top. Cover and cook on low for about 12 hours (for older crocks) or about 8 hours (for newer crocks).
Once cooked, remove the meat, straining the onions, but discarding the liquid. Shred the meat with 2 forks. Discard any fat, bones or skin. Most of the fat should have melted away.
After it’s nicely shredded, return the meat and onions to the slow cooker and cover it with the BBQ sauce, stirring it in to cover the meat well. Cook another 4 to 6 hours on low.
Serve on hamburger buns. Leftovers freeze well.
This recipe is part of the Freezer to Slow Cooker, week 4 meal plan.
I have never done this with a larger quantity of meat which is probably what I am doing wrong. If so just tell me. I usually put a small amount enough for 2 people in a small mini crock pot. But when I add the bbq sauce at the end, after shredding, the meat gets tough and hard. Am I not using enough meat you think?
I wonder if you're not cooking it slow enough? I've never had the problem of anything being tough yet. It shouldn't get tough and hard. Maybe try a different crockpot to see if there's a different result? Sometimes the crock pot is messing up and we don't realize it because the differences are so subtle.
Is your pork frozen or thawed? I have one frozen and wonder if I should thaw it out first. Thanks
Normally thawed, but if I was in a pinch, I'd do a quick defrost in the microwave OR go ahead and throw it in as long as I could stir it up after a while. If you do put it in frozen, be sure to add another hour to your cook time.
What is the serving size of this/ how many buns apx?
We are a family of 8 and it fed us all. I usually get 2 packs of buns, but we don't use them all. Probably at least 12 sandwiches.