Barbecue Pork Shoulder
Barbecue Pork Shoulder might be just the American recipe you are searching for. This recipe serves 10. One portion of this dish contains roughly 81g of protein, 14g of fat, and a total of 692 calories. This recipe covers 35% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. It will be a hit at your Father's Day event. It is a good option if you're following a gluten free, dairy free, and fodmap friendly diet. If you have firmly brown sugar, ground pepper, lemons, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the lemon juice you could follow this main course with the Lemon Shortbread Cookies with Lemon Icing From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 7 hours and 45 minutes.
Instructions
Soak 1 pound of wood chunks in water 30 minutes to 1 hour.
Bring vinegar, 1/4 cup ground red pepper, 3 oranges, and 3 lemons to a boil in a Dutch oven over medium heat; cook 10 minutes.
Remove vinegar mixture from heat, and cool.
Combine remaining 1/4 cup ground red pepper, brown sugar, and next 3 ingredients. Rub evenly over pork.
Drizzle 1 cup vinegar mixture over pork; set aside 2 cups vinegar mixture for basting, and reserve remaining mixture to fill the water pan.
Prepare charcoal fire in smoker; let burn 15 to 20 minutes.
Drain wood chunks, and place on coals.
Place water pan in smoker; add vinegar mixture and remaining 2 oranges and 2 lemons to depth of fill line.
Place pork on lower food rack; cover with smoker lid.
Cook pork roast 6 to 7 hours or until a meat thermometer inserted into the thickest part of roast registers 17
Baste with reserved 2 cups vinegar mixture every hour after pork roast has cooked 3 hours.
Add more charcoal, remaining 1 pound wood chunks, and vinegar mixture to smoker as needed.