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All-American Pulled Pork
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Here’s our standard recipe for pulled pork. We use smoked paprika to give the meat that characteristic “smoker” flavor, rather than a bottled barbecue sauce that can end up too sweet. Even without burnt ends, the flavor will be intense and sweet. Remove any big fatty blobs from the pork so that the sauce is not too greasy.
| Prep Time | 10 minutes |
| Cook Time | 1 hour |
| Servings |
8 servings
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Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups unsweetened apple cider
- 2 tbsp mild smoked paprika
- 2 tbsp dark brown sugar
- 1 tbsp standard chile powder
- 1 tsp ground dried mustard
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp table salt
- 1/2 tsp ground black pepper
- 3 lbs boneless pork shoulder cut in half and any large chunks of fat removed
Ingredients
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Instructions
- Pour the cider into cooker. Mix the smoked paprika, brown sugar, chile powder, dried mustard, onion powder, garlic powder, salt, and pepper in a small bowl. Pat and rub this mixture all over the pork. Set the meat in the cooker and lock the lid onto the pot.
- Option 1 - Max Pressure Cooker
Set the cooker to 'Pressure Cooker', on MAX level and set for 1 hour with the Keep Warm setting off. - Option 2 - All Pressure Cookers
Set the cooker to 'Meat/Stew or Pressure Cook (Manual)' on High pressure for 1 hour and 20 minutes with the Keep Warm setting off. - Option 3 - Slow Cook Option
Set the cooker to 'Slow Cook' on High for 5 hours with the Keep Warm setting off. (or on for no more than 4 hours) - If you’ve used a pressure setting, once the machine has finished cooking, turn it off and allow its pressure to return to normal naturally, about 30 minutes.
- Unlatch the lid ad open the pot. Use a meat fork and a large, slotted spoon or a large spatula to transfer the pork to a nearby cutting board (or transfer hunks of the pork, should the thing come apart). Use a flatware tablespoon to skim any excess surface fat from the sauce.
- Press Saute and set the time for 10 minutes.
- Bring the sauce to a boil, stirring a few times. Cook until the sauce has reduced to about half its volume, stirring occasionally, about 7 minutes. Meanwhile, shred the meat with two forks. When the sauce has reduced to the right consistency, turn off the SAUTE function and stir the shredded meat into the sauce in the pot. Set aside for 5 minutes with the lid on top but askew to blend the flavors and let the meat further absorb the sauce.
Recipe Notes
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• We prefer this pulled pork in slider buns, topped with lots of coleslaw.
• We also like it next to scrambled eggs for a weekend brunch.
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Awesome recipe. Such great flavor!
Sauce was a little runny but very tasty.
Instrucions suck and does not reflect the actuall instapot
Great recipie! Easy to make my only suggestion is to add some apple butter bbq sauce on the bun and it is perfect!
Turned out delicious!
Tasted kinda plain. Did not have much flavour so all in all it was okay…
Easy way to cook pulled pork!! Needs more spice added to the rub. Sauteing the sauce needs more sugar or honey so it caramilses, other than that its great!!
The meat was so tender, the flavor was amazing. The only downside was the sauce in the pot left from cooking was very acidic so we used our own bbq sauce.
Meat is good just dry. Sauce will be thin even after condensing.
Best pulled pork I have had!
Falls apart
Loved it so much! There was a lot of juice, though. Took me more than 20 minutes of sautéing on high to reduce the excessive liquid. But! The result was “oh, my…”
We’ll make it every week!
Whole family loved it!! No bbq sauce needed!! So great with slaw!!! Meat was super moist and so flavorful, def my new go to for pulled pork, maybe even gonna try chicken deer and beef with this recipe!!!
Great dinner, the whole family enjoyed this
Delicious!
Lots of flavor.
So much good to eat.
I had only a frozen roast that i slow cooked with rack, some water ok the bottom and some jar bbq poured ok top of meat for 4.5 hours then pressure cooked it without rack for 20 mintues with some more sauce and some of the recipe spices. Did the reduction of the sauce at the end and everything cooked perfectly! Just wrote this review to give you an idea of what to do if only frozen roast
The apple cider vinegar caused it to be quite acidic so I didn’t end up using the liquid as sauce and used BBQ sauce instead. It sat for about 2 hours before we got home and ate so this may have played a factor. Will definitely make again – the meat was very tender and the flavor with our favorite BBQ sauce was awesome.
So good! The spices were right on and even my pickiest eater loved this dish. We ate this on the buns, as suggested, and are looking forward to nachos the next time we do this! YUM!!
I thought the sauce was smokey yet not very flavorful. It could have been just a bit sweeter despite using the Hawaiian rolls.
My youngest daughter is very picky. She was literally eating this straight from the pot. I will continue to make this! Thank you for sharing!
Got the pork at Fresh Market and made the recipie last night. It was easy and delicious and i recommend it. I cut fat off before I cooked I and got more off, easily, after cooking it. The pulled pork was raved about by all!
It was good. I would try it again. Maybe add a bit of bbq sauce to it. I liked it but it felt like it was missing something
I havent madw this yet but reading the reviews. One said apple cider vinegar was too acidic. Recipe calls for apple cider, not vinegar.
Yum! A big hit with the family. At the end when I boiled down the sauce, I added some honey and a few splashes of Worcestershire sauce.
Way too apple cider vinegar flavor for me. My daughter wouldn’t eat it, husband ate it smothered in sweet bbq sauce. A real bummer, this took some time to prepare and im a bit dissapointed.
Hi lucky9lives7,
The recipe calls for apple cider, the juice, and not apple cider vinegar.
I see several posting about Apple cider vinegar..it’s not vinegar- it’s just Apple cider.
Sooo good
This was great! Was ready to make this and didn’t have Apple Cider. So I mixed Apple Cider Vinegar, Apple Juice, a little water & BQ Sauce; then adjusted as I TASTED it. Didn’t notice until I read Reviews that recipe called for Apple Cider (not the vinegar). Used “Pressure Cooker Option”. WOW Meat was moist and flavorable. We like vinegar-based BQ sauce. Thanks for publishing this recipe.
Felt like this had no flavor? Maybe its becaise I couldnt find apple cider and just used apple juice? My husband liked it though! I probably would not make this recipe again.
Had a hard time getting my sauce to boil down so we added flour. Maybe thatsbwhy it felt like it didnt have much flavor.
Cooked this in the instant pot mini, following the pressure cook method. Meat was very tender and juicy. Flavor wasn’t the best and very strong/overbearing for me. Decent meal.
Excellent and its up there if not the best pulled pork I have ever had.
Good pork but the flavor is not strong.
Made this tonight in 2 batches- as I had a 6 lb. pork roast. As many said – the meat was super tender and flavor was not overwhelming. As I didn’t have cider, the liquid was apple juice… but I tried to simmer /reduce it on the stove after the end of the cooking as it was far from a sauce. We used BBQ sauce and mustard on sweet Hawaiian rolls!! 🙂
i want to make this tonight! do i put my meat on the trivet or leave it in the juices at the bottom?
You can do both. This recipe recommends not using the trivet and to place the pork directly in the apple cider. .
Hardly any flavor. Took quite a while to make. Mediocre at best.
Loved it! I loved the sweetness from the apple cider and just enough barbecue flavor. We added just a very small amount of barbecue sauce at the end. I don’t like pulled pork that is totally sauce overdone.
Says total time 1 hr 10 mins. After completely done it took over 2 hrs. Lets just say, dinner was an hour late and we were starving by the time we were sitting down to eat.
It says total time 1 hr 10 mins. After completely done it took over 2 hrs. Lets just say, dinner was an hour late and we were starving by the time we were sitting down to eat. My kids and husband did eat it and likes it so that’s the only reason i give it 3 Stars. I will probably make it again but not on a weekday when I won’t have 2 hours to make it.
I added the same apple wood seasoning that i use to smoke a butt to mine, flavor is awesome
Flavor is lacking. It took way linger than 1hour 10 mins. Needed BBQ sauce at the end. I doubt ill make it again.
Recipe is very misleading. Says cooktime is 1 hour total time 1 hour 10 min, but with anything other than a max pressure cooker it has to cook for an hour and 20 min then naturally pressure release for 30 min then a few other steps.
Hi Bressler6515,
Thank you for your feedback. We are sorry you found it misleading as we are only able to show 1 overall cook time. This recipe has three different ways of making it depending on your model.
I dont even like pulled pork. This was awesome and easy.
I am a diabetic and need to know nutritional values of the food I eat, especially the carbohydrate count per serving. Please post on your recipes. Thanks
Hi Patti,
Thank you for the feedback.
We only have the nutritional values for certain recipes if they were provided to us.
Even the ones we have on our site are not exact as the nutritional values are estimates and can vary depending on the brand of ingredients you choose.
There are sites that can help make estimates.
As an Instant Pot newbie I was confused by the instructions. When Option 1 mentioned Max Pressure I didn’t realize until too late that it was a reference for a type of Instant Pot. I have the Duo 60 so U fall into Iption 2. Also if you are lazy like me and don’t want to skim fat it will take longer to reduce the sauce. That being said it came out quite tasty but yes it took about two hours. Hope this helps.
Tasty & easy.
Everything went well with the recipe so i will definitely use it again. I used Option 1.
Delicious flavour. Meat was tender and moist. Not saucy like most pulled porks but that didn’t matter.
For my taste, it wasn’t sweet enough. The smokey paprika did that trick, but personally (I know I am picky) I like more sauce and sweeter. I wont be making it again without some adjustments to ingredients.