Apple Cider Pulled Pork with Apple Slaw
When you want tender, tasty, cozy, and comforting. That sums up my Apple Cider Braised Pulled Pork with apple slaw. The flavor and aroma are outstanding. If you want a twist, add orange juice, chicken stock, Cuso’s Maple Bourbon Seasoning, or honey to the smoking process.
It’s worth noting that pulled pork has other uses than on a sandwich. Use it in stew, casseroles, and soup, for example. Or, how about:
- Hash
- Egg rolls
- Mac n cheese
- Tacos
- Chili
Ingredients
- 2-3 pound pork butt
- Apple cider
- Cuso’s Dust Seasoning
- Cuso’s Hot Honey Seasoning
- Cuso’s Lava Barbecue Sauce
- ½ stick butter
- 2 apples
- 1 tbsp Cuso’s Gravel Seasoning
- ¼ cup cider
- 2 tbsp apple cider vinegar
- ½ cup finely shredded coleslaw (cabbage & carrots)
- ½ cup mayo
- ½ cup Greek yogurt
Instructions
- Preheat the grill to 250F
- Use apple cider on the pork butt as a binder
- Sprinkle the surface of the pork with Cuso’s Dust and Hot Honey
- Grill on offset heat for about 3 hours until the pork reaches 170F
- Remove from heat
- Put pork into an aluminum pan
- Pour in 2 cups of apple cider
- Follow with 1 cup of Lava Sauce
- Dot with butter pieces
- Smoke at 275F until the meat reaches 200 internally
- Let the meat rest while you make the slaw
- Use a mandolin to slice the apples thinly
- Put them into a bowl with cabbage, mayo, yogurt, cider and cider vinegar
- Toss with Cuso’s Gravel Seasoning
- Chill while the pork finishes
Remove from smoker and pull the pork in the aluminum pan
Serve on hard rolls with the slaw on top
Pitmaster’s Memo
You have a variety of ciders to choose from for this dish. Dry ciders have very little sugar. Semi-sweet has about 4% residual sugar. Sweet cider has 2% sugar after fermentation and mixes nicely with pork and apples.
You can also find flavored cider like apple-grape, apple cranberry, pear, mango, and pomegranate. Set aside some of your pulled pork and test it with various ciders to see if you like the flavor combination. If so, try that cider next time you cook this recipe.
Sides
Apple slaw
Fried grits
succotash
Sweet pea salad
Tomato Comfit
Desserts
Apple crumble
Caramel flan
Dark chocolate cheesecake
Honeyed hushpuppies
Orange scones
From the Bar
Fleurie
Moscow Mule
Pale ale
Toffee coffee
Whisky
