Adapted from a barbecue sauce recipe in the West Virginia cookbook “Mountain Measures” that I grew up with, this dish has pulled pork cooked in a fiery, acidic West Virginia-style barbecue sauce. Additionally, it tastes great when made with more water and used over mashed or baked potatoes.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 3 hrs 30 mins |
| Total Time: | 3 hrs 50 mins |
| Servings: | 12 |
| Yield: | 12 servings |
Ingredients
- 1 (3 pound) pork tenderloin, trimmed
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
- ½ cup cider vinegar
- ⅓ cup water
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 2 tablespoons prepared yellow mustard
- 2 slices lemon, seeded
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
- 2 teaspoons honey
- ½ teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1 cup ketchup
- 4 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C).
- Heat a Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Season pork with salt and pepper. Sear in the hot Dutch oven on all sides, about 5 minutes total. Remove and set aside.
- Combine vinegar, water, onion, mustard, lemon slices, butter, honey, and cayenne in the Dutch oven and simmer for 20 minutes. Remove lemon. Add ketchup and Worcestershire sauce and return to a boil; add pork and cover tightly with a lid or foil.
- Braise in the center of the preheated oven until meat shreds easily with a fork, about 3 hours. Check occasionally to see if a little water should be added. Remove from the oven and shred pork into sauce using 2 forks.
- Could also be done completely on the stovetop, but be sure to stir occasionally and keep it just at a simmer.
- I usually end up with right about 8 cups BBQ pork
- I have also done the same thing with chicken breast – I use whichever I have or is on sale that week. Growing up, my mother cooked a whole cut-up chicken in the sauce (with more water), removed the bones, and served over mashed potatoes.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 145 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 9 g |
| Cholesterol | 52 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 18 g |
| Saturated Fat | 2 g |
| Sodium | 541 mg |
| Sugars | 7 g |
| Fat | 4 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |