Root Beer Pulled Pork Sliders
From luisascatering 12 years ago
- 8 hours to make
- Serves 8
A few posts ago I used a locally brewed root beer in a cake and it made me want to use it again for a savory recipe. I remembered seeing a few of my friends on Facebook posting about root beer pulled pork in their slow cookers. Read more I looked up the recipe and was not impressed (can of root beer, bottle of store-bought sauce and pork just dumped into the slow cooker). I found a few other recipes that added a few more steps (like making your own sauce, rubbing the pork with a dry rub, serving with a slaw of some sort). This is the final recipe that I came up with and it was PERFECT. I love how the 5 spice compliments the root beer flavor - slight asian twist but subtle! This one is definately a keeper! See less
Ingredients
- 16 mini brioche buns *see my recipe here: buns-for-sliders.html">Miniature Brioche buns For Sliders shopping list
- 4 lbs pork shoulder/butt shopping list
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- pork Dry Rub: shopping list
- 1 tablespoon Chinese five spice powder shopping list
- 1 tablespoon granulated sugar shopping list
- 3 tsp kosher salt shopping list
- 1 tsp fresh ground black pepper shopping list
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- root beer BBQ Sauce: shopping list
- 1 1/2 cups QUALITY root beer (cane sugar-sweetened root beer ) shopping list
- 1 cup Sir Kensington Classic ketchup (or any other organic ketchup) shopping list
- 1 small onion, coarsley chopped shopping list
- 1 inch piece of fresh ginger, peeled shopping list
- 1 large clove fresh garlic shopping list
- 1/4 cup seasoned rice vinegar shopping list
- 1/4 cup soy sauce shopping list
- 1/4 cup muscavado sugar (or dark brown sugar) shopping list
- 1/4 cup organic honey shopping list
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- optional condiments: pickled red onion and shredded fresh red cabbage shopping list
How to make it
- Rinse pork under cold water and pat dry with paper towels. In a small bowl combine all the dry rub ingredients.Now just rub the dry ingredients all over the pork See Photo. Wrap in butcher paper or plastic and chill 8 hours/overnight.
- Make the root beer sauce: place all ingredients into your blender and puree until smooth See Photo. Keep in fridge until ready to use.
- Unwrap marinated pork and place into slow cooker See Photo. Pour sauce over the pork See Photo. Cover and cook on low for 8 hours. See Photo
- When you are ready to roll, carefully take the lid off (don't let all that water on the lid drip into your meat). Using two forks or a pair of tongs, carefully shred the pork, mixing it in with the liquid and juices in the slow cooker. I just keep it in there for serving so it stays warm.
- Warm up your buns in the oven, place a mound of pulled pork on each bun See Photo. Add pickled red onion and shredded red cabbage, if desired.
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