North Carolina Pulled Pork

Dib's's Note:

Awesome-great-super-love it!!!! Great for football season!!! I make everything a day ahead for a hassle free day!!!

• Total Time: 29 hrs
• Prep Time: 24 hrs
• Cook Time: 5 hrs

Ingredients:

Servings: 8

• 1 pork butt (I buy one around 5-6 pounds)
• salt
• cracked black pepper
• garlic powder
• onion
• garlic
• 2 bay leaves

The firey sauce known as NC Style

• 1 teaspoon light brown sugar
• 2 cups apple cider vinegar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons fresh ground black pepper
• 1 teaspoon cayenne
• 1 cup ketchup
• 2 cups water
• Tabasco sauce

Lexington Style Sauce

• 2 cups water
• ¾ cup light corn syrup
• ½ cup tomato paste
• ½ cup vinegar
• 3 teaspoons molasses
• 3 teaspoons brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon liquid smoke
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ¼ teaspoon onion powder
• ¼ teaspoon pepper
• ¼ teaspoon paprika
• ¼ teaspoon garlic powder
• ½ large onion , grated

Directions:

1. Make the sauce one or two days ahead.
2. Roll the pork in the salt, pepper and garlic powder.
3. Bake like you normaly would, usually low and slow.
4. At this point the rest is up to you-you can shred the pork now with forks, and chop some (this is what you would do if you had been grilling or smoking the roast), adding sauce of choice.
5. Or, if you have a good amount of leftover pork butt roast you can --
6. Get a large pot and place the pork in it.
7. Add water up to half way up the pork-cut up 3 or 4 onions and a whole head of garlic and add to water along with the bay-bring to a boil, cover and reduce to simmer-I simmer for around 3 hours or until the pork is falling away from the bone.
8. Remove the meat (reserve the broth for something else like beans or soup) Shred the pork and add to sauce of choice.
9. Serve on toasted buns, some folks put slaw on it or on the side and Southern Barbecued Beans.
10. For the Lexington style sauce add all ingredients to a pot, bring to a boil and simmer to desired thickness.
11. For the NC firey style bring to a boil-reduce and simmer for 15 minutes-this will keep for 6 months in the fridge.

Reviews

[Colleen]

Saying "bake pork like you normally would" is not nearly descriptive enough. I need a recipe because I don't know how to cook a pork butt!

[Leta]

5 stars, and I'm from NC, so I should know! We just had the firey NC sauce with our pulled pork. It was wonderful. Had a great flavor that complimented the meat. I made it three days ago and let it set in the fridge...I think I should have added a bit more tabasco, as it was not really firey, but I don't like it to scald my mouth anyway. Thank you for sharing.

[SlipC]

Let me just say, that the pork alone was tasty! My son ate only the pork on the buns, no sauce at all and he loved it! I enjoyed the fiery sauce a lot more than the Lexington, but I think that is just a personal preference thing. Some of my family liked the Lexington more, so I guess it depends on individual taste. We served the with Coleslaw, Potato Salad, cream corn, and Cherry Pie. It was a great dinner!! Thanks for posting!