I have looked in the archives and can't find a recipe posted here a year or two ago. It may have been from Sunny but I am not sure about that. I believe it was adapted from a Rachel Ray pulled pork crock pot recipe. It was really a big hit. Does anyone have it saved? TIA, Taria
I don't have that recipe but I fudged a pulled pork recipe by generously slathering a pork loin with my favorite barbecue sauce and cooking it in a slow cooker. The meat pulled apart very nicely at the end of the day and I added a bit more barbecue sauce as required to moisten it up. HTH Allison
I haven't adapted anything, and I don't really know Rachel Ray, but I put a big ol' pork roast in the crock pot with barbecue sauce, just like Allison. I usually make my own, because we like hot and sweet. But whatever works, works. I've also used a packet of dry Sloppy Joe seasoning with added chopped onion and tomato sauce. yeah, I punch it up a bit, but the seasoning is a good starting place. Pulled pork is just very tender cooked and seasoned the way you like it. Easy with a crock pot.
I put the pork in the crockpot with about a tablespoon of chopped garlic, a can of beer and a beer can's worth of water.
Depending on what I'm using it for, I may or may not add other things; for barbecue, I'm much more likely to add rub seasonings than Q sauce just because in my experience the Q sauce loses most of its flavor in the crockpot---rather add it after pulling the pork.
If I'm shredding pork for anything Mexican, though, I'll throw in a jar of salsa at the start of the crockpot process. Does wonderfully well with beef or boneless/skinless chicken as well, for tacos or burritos or enchiladas or tamales or....... :)
Beer just makes a heckuva fine tenderizer in the crockpot, and once you add the Q sauce or salsa or what have you, and after cooking it down, it doesn't sidetrack the flavor at all.
Taria: Around here pulled pork means the North Carolina Style BBQ. It is great slow-cooked outdoors. We smoke ... but we don't inhale! Some cooks add some seasoning prior to cooking. The sauce is not added to the meat until it is served. The diner choose her favorite ... NC or Memphis or ??????!! Sauce. We usually add coleslaw to the sandwich too. YUMMY! Try looking under North Carolina BBQ. HTH. PAT in Virginia
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