To use up the leftover pork roast from the weekend, I created this concoction – a delicious recipe with just enough tang and not too much smokey flavour. You can adjust the flavour with the amount and kind of BBQ sauce you use. This can be made in a cast iron pot or a slow cooker.
Serve with creamy coleslaw.
BBQ Pulled Pork Sandwiches
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp Olive oil
- 1 Medium onion sliced and separated into rings
- 1/2 Bell pepper diced
- 3 – 4 cups Pork roast or tenderloin cooked and broken into pieces
- 1 1/2 cups Tomato sauce 398 mL can
- 1/2 cup Brown sugar
- 1/3 cup Vinegar
- 1 tbsp Prepared yellow mustard
- 1/2 – 1 cup Favourite BBQ sauce
Instructions
To cook the pork roast or tenderloin in the oven
- Preheat oven to 325°F.
- Place pork in a baking pan.
- Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
- Add one cup of water.
- Cover and let cook for 2-3 hours until done. Watch liquid level so it doesn’t cook dry.
To cook pulled pork in the oven
- Heat olive oil in cast iron Dutch oven.
- Add onion rings and bell pepper. Allow to sweat.
- Add pork roast, broken into pieces.
- Combine remaining ingredients and pour over pork roast.
- Cover and cook slowly at 300°F for 3-4 hours until sauce is nicely reduced.
- An hour before serving, pull pieces of pork apart using two forks and continue cooking until ready to serve.
To cook in the slow cooker
- Place pork in a slow cooker.
- Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
- A one cup of water
- Cook on high for four hours.
- Remove the cooked pork and cut into pieces. Discard any liquid.
- Put prepared onion and bell pepper in the bottom of the slow cooker.
- Add cooked pieces of pork roast.
- Mix sauce and pour overall.
- Cook on low for four hours.
- An hour before serving, pull pieces of pork apart using two forks and continue cooking until ready to serve.
Notes
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