Pulled pork
Serves: 4-5
Ingredients
- 1.25kg boneless pork shoulder
- generous knob butter
- 1 onion, finely sliced
- 1 medium carrot, chopped
- 3 stalks celery, roughly chopped
- 4 cloves garlic, smashed
- 100ml chicken or vegetable stock
- 150ml cider
- 2 tbsp liquid smoke
- salt and fresh ground black pepper
- bread rolls and coleslaw to serve
Method
- Heat oven to 170C/Gas 3.
- Trim off any large pieces of fat from the pork and cut into large fist-sized pieces.
- Rub the pork with salt and pepper.
- Warm butter in a frying pan and sear meat on all sides (5 mins).
- Place in an oven dish with vegetables and pour over liquid smoke, stock and cider.
- Cover and place in the middle of the oven for 2-4 hours.
- Transfer to a large bowl and shred using two forks.
- Strain the liquid and vegetables out and set aside.
- Moisten the pork with a little of the liquid if you need to when you serve in bread rolls with coleslaw.
