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Pulled Pork Sandwiches

Pulled Pork Sandwiches | girlgonegourmet.com
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Pulled pork is great for feeding a crowd, but if you don’t plan to serve it all at once you can cook the pork, shred it, and then freeze some of it to use later. I love pulled pork sandwiches, but the shredded pork is also great for enchiladas, tacos, or tossed into some tomato sauce and served with pasta. In other words, it’s versatile!

Ingredients

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  • For the Pork
  • 1/4 cup Chili Powder
  • 3 tablespoons Kosher Salt
  • 1 tablespoon Brown Sugar
  • 1 tablespoon Cumin
  • 1 tablespoon Garlic Powder
  • 1 tablespoon Onion Powder
  • 1/2 tablespoon ground mustard
  • 5–7 pound pork shoulder or rump (mine was about 6.5 pounds)
  • 1 large carrot, cut into chunks
  • 2 celery stalks, cut into large pieces
  • 1 onion, quartered
  • 2 large garlic cloves, smashed
  • [br]For the Coleslaw
  • 1/4 Green cabbage, thinly sliced
  • 1 medium carrot, sliced into ribbons using a vegetable peeler
  • 1/4 cup plain Greek yogurt
  • 1 tablespoon mayonnaise
  • 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon black pepper

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees
  2. Mix the first 7 ingredients together in a small bowl. Rub the spice mixtures all over the pork, generously coating all sides.
  3. Place the carrots, celery, onion, and garlic in the bottom of a roasting pan. Set the pork shoulder on top of the vegetables. Roast the pork for 3 1/2 to 4 hours or until the internal temperature reaches 165 degrees.
  4. Remove from the oven and take the pork out of the roasting pan and set it aside to rest. Remove the vegetables and discard. There will be a lot of juices and fat at the bottom of the pan. Skim off the fat, reserving the juice.
  5. Return the pork to the pan and shred it (remove any undesirable parts like fatty bits and discard).
  6. Serve as is or toss it in your favorite sauce. I like a tomato based-barbecue sauce. If you are freezing some of the pork hold off saucing it until you’re ready to use it.
  7. To make the coleslaw combine the yogurt, mayonnaise, apple cider vinegar, salt and pepper in a large bowl.
  8. Add the cabbage and carrot to the yogurt mixture and toss it all together until well coated.

Notes

You can make the pork and the coleslaw ahead of time. Keep the shredded pork in the fridge or freezer and when ready to serve either warm it up with some sauce on the stove or pop it into a slow cooker to warm (if frozen let it thaw before warming). You can prep all of the components for the slaw ahead of time (up to one day in advance), but keep the vegetables separate from the dressing in the fridge until you are ready to serve it. Otherwise, the slaw will get soggy and lose it’s crunch.

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