A friend of mine had been telling me of a recipe he used to make pulled pork using Dr Pepper so I thought I'd have a go!
Being me I couldn't be bothered to take down his recipe so I looked for one on line (realising I couldn't remember more than two of the ingredient) and there are loads of recipes!
I had a look at some and then thought ...
Ah! I have the gist of this, I'll just grab some stuff from the shops. no problem!
and for once I was right.
(In my Opinion)
Here's a rough guide.
Pulled pork...
Get some boneless pork shoulder, an onion, a 2 litter bottle of Dr Pepper, an actual pepper (red) and some salt & pepper.
Cut the meat roughly into chunks (to aid cooking and maximum flavour penetration) and add to an oven safe dish along with the onion and pepper after chopping. Then add a pinch of salt & pepper then pore in the Dr Pepper so it covers the meat.
Stick it in the oven on about 180-200 for approx 3 hours, covered over with foil. Give it an occasional stir if you like.
Once the meat is done you can fish it out onto a plate etc and leave until cool enough to get two forks and begin pulling the meat apart.
I found that a lot of fun. If you are feeling particularly silly you can always pretend to be a T-Rex whilst doing this but just make sure that don't burn yourself or somehow poke your own eyes out... not sure how you could but still.
If you want some gravy to go with that then I recommend taking some of the liquid left in the dish and adding it to a pan and heating it then adding a stock cube and a thickening agent (like corn flower or arrowroot) until to your preferred thickness.
Apple sauce or BBQ sauce goes well with this and if you make enough you can have amazing sandwiches the next day!
If you do make veg I recommend you put the veg on approx 20 to 30 mins before end of meat cooking time.
ENJOY!
