Pulled Pork (Crock Pot)

By MplsCooks

Ingredients

• # 4 lbs pork roast (shoulder or butt)
• # 2 large onions
• # 1 cup ginger ale
• # 1 (18 ounce) bottle favorite barbecue sauce (I like Sweet Baby Ray's)
• # barbecue sauce, for serving (optional)

Details

Servings 10
Preparation time 30mins
Cooking time 31mins

Preparation

Step 1

1 Slice one onion and place in crock pot.
2 Put in the roast and cover with the other onion, sliced. Pour over the ginger ale. Cover and cook on LOW for about 12 hours.
3 Remove the meat, strain and save the onions, discard all liquid. With two forks, shred the meat, discarding any remaining fat, bones or skin. Most of the fat will have melted away.
4 Return the shredded meat and the onions to the crock pot, stir in the barbecue sauce. Continue to cook for another 4 to 6 hours on LOW.
5 Serve with hamburger buns or rolls and additional barbecue sauce. Any leftovers freeze very well.

Shoulder or butt are recommended because the meat shreds very well. Other cuts do not shred as readily. It is a fattier cut, but the fat melts away in the cooking and is poured away when you discard the liquid.