Carolina Pulled Pork with Lexington Red Sauce

Carolina Pulled Pork with Lexington Red Sauce
Carolin From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 45 minutes.

Instructions

1
To prepare pork, soak wood chunks in water about 16 hours; drain.
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2
Combine turbinado sugar and next 4 ingredients (through ground red pepper); reserve 2 tablespoons sugar mixture. Rub half of the remaining sugar mixture onto pork.
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3
Place in a large zip-top plastic bag; seal and refrigerate pork overnight.
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4
Remove pork from refrigerator; let stand at room temperature 30 minutes. Rub remaining half of sugar mixture onto pork.
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5
Combine reserved 2 tablespoons sugar mixture, 1 cup vinegar, 1/4 cup water, 1 teaspoon salt, and oil in a small saucepan; cook over low heat 10 minutes or until sugar dissolves.
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6
Remove grill rack; set aside. Prepare grill for indirect grilling, heating one side to medium-low and leaving one side with no heat. Maintain temperature at 22
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7
Pierce bottom of a disposable aluminum foil pan several times with the tip of a knife.
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8
Place pan on heated side of grill; add half of wood chunks to pan.
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9
Place another disposable aluminum foil pan (do not pierce pan) on unheated side of grill.
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10
Pour remaining 2 cups water in pan. Coat grill rack with cooking spray; place on grill.
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11
Place pork on grill rack over foil pan on the unheated side. Close lid, and cook for 4 1/2 hours or until a thermometer registers 170, gently brushing pork with vinegar mixture every hour (avoid brushing off sugar mixture).
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12
Add additional wood chunks halfway during cooking time. Discard any remaining vinegar mixture.
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Preheat oven to 25
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14
Remove pork from grill. Wrap pork in several layers of aluminum foil, and place in a baking pan.
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15
Bake at 250 for 2 hours or until a thermometer registers 19
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16
Remove from oven.
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17
Let stand, still wrapped, for 1 hour or until pork easily pulls apart. Unwrap pork; trim and discard fat. Shred pork with 2 forks.
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18
To prepare sauce, combine 1 cup vinegar and remaining ingredients in a small saucepan; bring to a boil. Cook until reduced to 1 1/4 cups (about 5 minutes).
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Serve sauce warm or at room temperature with pork.
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DifficultyExpert
Ready In45 m.
Servings13
Health Score43
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