Pulled Pork with Coke Recipe
This is a recipe for some delicious pulled pork with coke.
Have you ever had one of those delicious pulled pork sandwiches made with some meat from a whole pig slowly roasted over a wood fire?
Well, now you can make them yourself using this easy pulled pork with coca cola recipe. This recipe will show you how to make the same tasty food in an Instant Pot in a fraction of the time. And you do not need a whole hog to make it!
Pulled Pork Meat Cut
For this recipe, I have used a delicious piece of fresh pork shoulder that I picked up from my local butcher, Kelly’s.
You could also use pork butt, which is actually also from the shoulder of the pig, although higher up. Surprisingly, despite its name, it has nothing to do with the rear-end of the animal!
Both are relatively cheap cuts of meat, but taste great when slow cooked or cooked in a pressure cooker, as in this recipe, where I use my Instant Pot. You can of course use any other make of electric pressure cooker like a Ninja Foodi, or even a normal pressure cooker will do.
The piece I bought came without the skin, but if you did get it with skin you could use the skin to make some delicious crackling separately in the oven (everyone’s favourite)!
I made sure I trimmed all the fat off the meat before starting to cook it so that I would get some delicious lean pulled pork after cooking.
Coca Cola Pork
This is an interesting recipe as it uses the dry rub and the smokiness of the BBQ sauce and the sweetness of the Coca-Cola to flavour the meat. The result is a sweet-tasting pork meat, with a charred external surface, that you can use in a variety of different dishes.
Pulled pork is great in buns or rolls with a BBQ sauce of your choice, or even some cooking sauce from the pot if you prefer that.
But also this meat is great to store for a few days in the fridge. You can just re-heat it in the microwave or in the pan, when you want to heat it again. It is also very tasty eaten cold.
This huge piece of shoulder lasted us a few days and several different meals, and we ate it in buns, pita bread and tortillas with a variety of different sauces.
This cola pulled pork recipe is so easy to make, and the Instant Pot really does all the work for you. If you wish to slow cook in the oven, or a slow cooker or crock pot, then you will probably need to cook for about 8 hours to reach the same level of tenderness in the meat.
Just this recipe is a good enough reason why, if you do not have an Instant Pot already, you need to get one soon! We love ours!
I hope you enjoy making this simple recipe and look forward to hearing how you get on in the comments section below!
How to cook pulled pork with coke
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Pulled Pork With Coke
This easy preparation recipe for pulled pork with coke, gives you some delicious sweet and succulent pork for your tacos, sandwiches or buns. Wonderful at BBQ time!
Ingredients
- 2 kg Pork Shoulder (or butt)
- 1 chopped onion
- 1 shallot, halved
- 3 tsp paprika powder
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp black pepper
- 3 tbsp brown sugar
- olive oil
- 2 tbsp Frank's Red Hot Original Sauce
- 150ml Smokey BBQ sauce
- 800ml Coca Cola
Optional
- 1 tsp Cornflour
Instructions
- Trim the pork and remove any fat. Then mix the dry ingredients (paprika, onion, garlic powders, salt and pepper) in a bowl. Use the dry mix to rub into the outside of the pork.
- Then sear the outside of the pork in a pan (I use my wok for this) using the olive oil. Make sure the outside is nicely browned on all sides.
- I use my Instant Pot to cook this recipe (you can use a Dutch oven to slow cook in the oven, but it will take a lot longer to cook). Put the Instant Pot onto the saute setting and fry the onions and shallot for about 2 minutes.
- Then add the pork to the Instant Pot and add the coke, BBQ sauce, Frank's hot sauce and brown sugar and mix well.
- Close the lid of the Instant Pot and set to 80 minutes at high pressure (HP). Let the pork cook and when the cycle is finished let it cool for 30 minutes naturally before carefully releasing the remainder of the pressure and opening the lid.
- Remove the pork from the pot and place under a hot grill (broiler) for about 5 minutes, turning regularly, to char the outside. (Feel free to do this part on the BBQ if you so wish and want a smokier finish).
- To pull the pork use two forks to pull the meat apart. It should fall apart fairly easily.
Notes
Serve up the pulled pork as a filling for sandwiches, tacos, tortillas, buns or whatever you fancy.
You may also wish to thicken the sauce from the meat using some cornflour and use it to add as dressing to your sandwich.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield: 10 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 657Total Fat: 45gSaturated Fat: 16gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 24gCholesterol: 180mgSodium: 568mgCarbohydrates: 14gFiber: 1gSugar: 11gProtein: 47g
This nutrition information was automatically calculated by Nutritionix, but may not be 100% accurate.
Dalton Spiekermann
Monday 28th of June 2021
It's called Carnitas...
Gav
Tuesday 29th of June 2021
Not over here it isn't. But thanks for the Spanish/Mexican translation