Take one loaf now and freeze the other for later using this recipe’s two loaves. It’s excellent and incredibly moist.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 5 hrs |
| Total Time: | 5 hrs 15 mins |
| Servings: | 8 |
| Yield: | 8 sandwiches |
Ingredients
- 1 teaspoon vegetable oil
- 1 (4 pound) pork shoulder roast
- 1 cup barbeque sauce
- ½ cup apple cider vinegar
- ½ cup chicken broth
- ¼ cup light brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon prepared yellow mustard
- 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1 tablespoon chili powder
- 1 extra large onion, chopped
- 2 large cloves garlic, crushed
- 1 ½ teaspoons dried thyme
- 8 hamburger buns, split
- 2 tablespoons butter, or as needed
Instructions
- Pour vegetable oil into the bottom of a slow cooker. Place pork roast into the slow cooker; pour in barbeque sauce, vinegar, and chicken broth. Stir in brown sugar, yellow mustard, Worcestershire sauce, chili powder, onion, garlic, and thyme. Cover and cook on Low for 10 to 12 hours or High for 5 to 6 hours until pork shreds easily with a fork.
- Remove pork from the slow cooker, and shred the meat using two forks. Return shredded pork to the slow cooker, and stir to combine with juices.
- Spread the inside of both halves of hamburger buns with butter. Toast buns, butter-side down, in a skillet over medium heat until golden brown. Spoon pulled pork into toasted buns.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 528 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 46 g |
| Cholesterol | 98 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 3 g |
| Protein | 32 g |
| Saturated Fat | 9 g |
| Sodium | 803 mg |
| Sugars | 17 g |
| Fat | 23 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Amazing result! But I did a few changes 🙂 first I rubbed the pork with chilli powder, onion powder, garlic powder , cumin, brown sugar, salt and pepper and I seared the pork!! In my dutch oven 🙂 After that I added all the ingredients BUT not the thyme, no brown sugar since I rubbed already. Half of the broth, half of vinegar and half bottle normal bbq and half bottle honey bbq. 300 for 4 hours in the oven ….DELICIOUS IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT!!! :))) new addition for our superbowl party! The sauce omg thik and flavoful no need for corn starch !!!
We LOVE this; add a restaurant slaw on it with swiss cheese and such a good sandwich!! This is a favorite over here.
The recipe is very easy. The only change I made, I browned the pork in the spices before putting in crockpot
Great flavor….the sauce gets too runny in a crockpot though. This is probably exceptional in an oven with a dry rub and slow roast then adding the sauce while shredding. Crockpots don’t allow the moisture to escape so it’s braising instead of roasting. Reducing the liquids in half will help but the pork fat will still keep the sauce from adhering properly. Reserving the sauce til shredding time is another option. I did add liquid smoke…
Wonderful!! Easy and delicious. I made it for my Mom’s birthday party, and everyone raved and wanted the recipe.
First time making pulled pork in my crockpot. I shredded the pork after cooking it for 10 hours on low. I simmered it in the sauce for another hour as recommended by another reviewer, and it came out delicious. Nothing left
Delicious, tender and full of flavor! Followed the recipe exactly except to lighten up on the chili powder (family preference) and this was a big hit! Smelled amazing while cooking, we couldn’t wait to have dinner! Works great on a bun or served over rice with veggies. I cooked on high and would make this again in a heartbeat! – August 2023
My family loved it! I mixed Smokey and plain barbecue sauces together. Use half the chicken broth and it was perfect. We made sandwiches.
The Thyme ruined it for me. I put it in against my better judgement.
Heaps of liquid when finished, so next time I’ll omit chicken broth- will add chicken stock cubes instead. Mine was 1/2 bbq sauce and 1/2 Smokey bbq sauce. I think Smokey bbq sauce improved it. For those who don’t like pulled pork to be sweet, you can easily half the sugar
The recipe was easy to follow and delicious. I found it lacked a bit of flavour when finished so I added the rest of the bottle of bbq sauce at the end and it was perfect ! Can’t wait for my family to try it at the potluck tomorrow.
follow precisely = top roast pulled pork!
This is great!!! I was wondering about no salt or pepper but none needed. Used Tabasco bbq sauce because we like kick! Agree with the other comment of mixing ingredients and adding over pork. I grated the garlic in the sauce too. I’ll definitely make again!
Wonderful! I cooked mine exactly as the recipe called for & I wouldn’t change a single thing about ingredients or how it was done. After meat was tender, I took it out of the slow cooker & put it into a bowl & shredded it really well. Next I put the shredded meat back into the sauce in the slow cooker & let it simmer for about an hour longer. I served it over mashed potatoes with a tossed salad. Everyone LOVED IT! Thank you for a GREAT recipe!
Great flavor and ease of preparation! I will be making this for long into the future!
I cooked on high for 6 hours, and even after all that, the pork only shredded a little bit. We ended up having to chop it so that we could serve it for the party. It came out a liquidy, watery mess. The vinegar and onion taste really did not do it for me at all. I prefer pulled pork that is sweet and saucy (not at all watery) with barbecue sauce. This was pretty awful and I won’t do it again.
Really good pulled pork recipe. My husband liked it enough he asked to put it in the menu rotation! I decreased the brown sugar to 1/8 of a cup and will probably omit it entirely next time. It just doesn’t need it depending on the BBQ sauce used. Easy and tastes good – a win in our book!
I put batches of it on my cast iron skillet until the liquid was evaporated and the pork got seared a bit. Good stuff!
I made this but didn’t have thyme. We used Italian Seasoning. Thought it should have tasted more “barbecuey”. Used everything else like directed. BUT! We have little leftovers and my non-barbecue child ate her whole sandwich and loved it! We served the sandwiches with corn on the cob, deviled egg potato salad and cesar salad. Was very tasty.
This is a very good basic recipe, but I have found 2 ways to make sure I like the flavor: 1) Make the sauce separately in a saucepan and heat to try the flavor. I substituted maple syrup for the brown sugar (I regularly do that), and found that I needed a little more chili powder. 2) Season the meat with salt and pepper.
Honestly it’s pretty flavorless. I read the comments beforehand so I left out the sugar, added extra chili powder, and I rubbed the meat with salt before cooking it. After the meat was cooked I added more bbq sauce too because I like the bbq flavor and I couldn’t really taste it. I just think this recipe lacks flavor, but it’s a good base to add your own touches to!