Quick and Easy Pulled Pork for Lazy Cheaters
Short on time? Want flavorful, smoky meats? This one is for you!
Equipment
- Some sort of barbecue smoker
- Electronic Pressure Cooker
Ingredients
- 1 Each 8-10 pound Boston Butt (Pork Shoulder Roast) Bone-in or boneless
- 1 Each Spice rub of your choice I used 2:1 mix of Coarse Ground Black Pepper and Kosher Salt.
- 1 Each Some sort of "spritzing" liquid Apple juice or 1:1 mix of water and apple cider vinegar are great choices. Beer can also be used. Even pickle juice would probably be good!
Instructions
- Heat your smoker to 250 degrees.
- Cut your pork roast into roughly 3-4 inch cubes and season well with your preferred spice rub. For this recipe, I used a simple mix of coarse ground black pepper and kosher salt in a 2:1 mix, since I wanted to repurpose the leftover meat into some different recipes.
- Place meat in smoker and allow to cook for about 2 hours. Feel free to spritz the meat every 30 minutes with apple juice or an apple cider vinegar/water mixture to keep the surface of the meat moist.
- Remove meat from smoker and place it inside of your pressure cooker.
- Add enough water to your pressure cooker to allow for proper pressurizing. Mine needed at least 1 cup of liquid to create enough pressure for this machine.
- Bring the pressure cooker up to full pressure and cook for approximately 45 minutes.
- Release pressure and allow meat to cool long enough to allow for handling the meat with your bare hands. Probably 30 minutes or longer. Meat will reabsorb some of the moisture as it cools and "relaxes". So, let that meat rest!
- Once cool enough to handle without melting your fingers, shred the meat by hand or with two forks.
- Enjoy!