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Slow Cooker Texas Pulled Pork

Easy slow cooker pulled pork. Cooks in a homemade sauce that you add your choice of barbecue sauce to. The finished pork is tender and juicy. Great for a sandwich that can be served with cooking juices or more barbecue sauce.

Course Barbecue, Main Course, Sandwich
Cuisine American, Texas Barbecue
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 5 hours
Total Time 5 hours 15 minutes
Servings 8 people
Author Recipe Thief

Ingredients

  • 1 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 4 lb pork shoulder roast
  • 1 cup barbecue sauce
  • ½ cup apple cider vinegar
  • ½ cup chicken broth
  • ¼ cup light brown sugar
  • 1 tbsp prepared yellow mustard
  • 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
  • 1 tbsp chili powder
  • 1 extra large onion chopped
  • 2 large cloves garlic crushed
  • 1 ½ tsp dried thyme
  • 8 hamburger buns split
  • 2 tbsp butter

Instructions

  1. Pour vegetable oil in bottom of slow cooker. Place roast into slow cooker, pour in the barbecue sauce, apple cider vinegar and chicken broth. Stir in brown sugar, mustard, Worcestershire sauce, chili powder, onion, garlic and thyme. Cover and cook on HIGH until roast shreds easily with a fork, 5-6 hours.
  2. Remove roast from slow cooker and shred the meat using two forks. Return shredded pork to slow cooker and stir the meat into the juices.
  3. Spread inside of both halves of the hamburger buns with butter. Toast butter side down in a skillet over medium heat until golden. Spoon pork into toasted buns.
  4. Can also be cooked in slow cooker on LOW setting for 10 to 12 hours.

Recipe Notes

I use Russell’s Barbecue sauce; the sauce has a vinegar bite to it and is a thinner sauce, so it will not burn in the slow cooker. I mix the brown sugar, mustard, Worcestershire sauce, chili powder and thyme together in a small bowl, then add that to the slow cooker. I serve more Russell’s barbecue sauce on the side when eating; the cooking liquid is too thin to serve as a sauce.