Southern
BBQ Pulled Pork Sandwiches
BBQ Pulled Pork Sandwiches is Southern home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 3.5 lb pork shoulder
- 2 tbsp smoked paprika
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- 1 tbsp garlic powder
- 1 tbsp onion powder
- 1.5 cups barbecue sauce
- 8 burger buns
- 4 cups cabbage and carrot slaw mix
- 1/3 cup mayonnaise
- 2 tbsp apple cider vinegar
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp black pepper
How to cook it
- Rub the pork all over with the paprika, brown sugar, garlic powder, onion powder, salt, and pepper.
- Place in a Dutch oven with 1/2 cup water, cover, and braise at 300F until it shreds easily, about 4 hours (or use a slow cooker on low for 8 hours).
- Shred the pork, discard excess fat, and toss with the barbecue sauce.
- Whisk the mayonnaise and vinegar and toss with the slaw mix.
- Pile the pulled pork onto the buns and top with slaw.
Serve it with
A Southern dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside BBQ Pulled Pork Sandwiches, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. BBQ Pulled Pork Sandwiches carries gluten, eggs, soy, and fish. It is free of the remaining 6 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | Yes | Blackened Catfish |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | Yes | Blackened Catfish |
| Soy | Yes | Blackened Catfish |
| Fish | Yes | Cajun Jambalaya |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Hearty
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Grains, Vegetables, and Meat or fish
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
BBQ Pulled Pork Sandwiches takes about 285 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on pork, bun, and cabbage.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
Meal suggestions support your goals. They are not medical advice. Please ask your doctor about your family's health needs.