Easy Oven-Baked Pulled Pork Sandwiches

Name: Easy Oven-Baked Pulled Pork Sandwiches
Prep time: 6 h
Cook time: 6 h
Total time: 6 h
Yield: 8
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 bone-in pork shoulder, preferably skin-on, 6 to 8 pounds; 0 teaspoons cayenne pepper; 118 milliliters cider vinegar; 1 teaspoon ground coriander; 1 teaspoon ground cumin; 1 teaspoon ground black pepper; 1 Tbsp kosher salt; 2 Tbsps light or dark brown sugar; 1 teaspoons natural liquid smoke (such as Wrights, optional); 1 teaspoon dried oregano; 1 Tbsp paprika; 1 Tbsp red pepper flakes; 8 servings Soft toasted buns for serving; 2 Tbsps sugar; 8 servings Condiments as desired, such as chopped pickled cherry peppers, raw onions, pickles, or cole slaw

You can never have too many main course recipes, so give Easy Oven-Baked Pulled Pork Sandwiches If you have ground pepper, paprika, oregano, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the kosher salt you could follow this main course with the Low Fat Crumbs Cake (Kosher-Dairy) as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 6 hours.

Instructions

Adjust oven rack to lower-middle position and preheat oven to 325°F.

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Combine brown sugar, salt, pepper, cumin, coriander, paprika, and cayenne in a small bowl and mix with fingers until homogenous. Rub generously over all surfaces of pork.

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Brown Sugar

Coriander

Ground Cayenne Pepper

Paprika

Pepper

Cumin

Pork

Salt

Dry Seasoning Rub

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Bowl

Place pork on a foil-lined rimmed baking sheet skin-side-up and transfer to oven. Roast until a fork inserted in thickest part of pork can be twisted easily and meat shreds off with little resistance, about 3 1/2 hours.

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Meat

Pork

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Baking Sheet

Aluminum Foil

Oven

Remove pork from oven. Increase temperature to 500°F.

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Pork

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Oven

Carefully lift skin off of pork. Scrape any clinging meat or fat into a large bowl using a fork or a large spoon.

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Meat

Pork

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Bowl

Transfer pork shoulder to bowl and return skin to baking sheet. Roast skin until crisp and bubbly, about 5 minutes.

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Pork Shoulder

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Baking Sheet

Bowl

Remove from oven and let cool.

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Oven

When pork is cool enough to handle, pul meat from bone and shred with your fingers. Discard bone. Finely chop skin and mix it in with the meat. Season meat with salt and pepper to taste, then season with vinegar, sugar, red pepper flakes, and liquid smoke (if using), starting with half of each and increasing until desired level of seasoning is reached. (See note above.)

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Red Pepper Flakes