North Carolina-Style Pulled Pork Barbecue
- 5 to 6 cups barbecue sauce
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 4 pounds pork butt
- 8 soft rolls or slices of white bread
- Prepare the barbecue sauce the day before cooking the meat.
- Preheat the oven to 275 degrees.
- In a large (6- to 8- quart) ovenproof casserole or flameproof roasting pan, heat oil over medium-high heat.
- Add meat, and brown on all sides, about 8 minutes a side.
- Remove meat and wipe out casserole.
- Place a rack in the bottom of the casserole.
- Put the meat on the rack, and cover with 2 1/2 cups barbecue sauce.
- Cover and cook for about 4 hours, basting occasionally, until the internal temperature of the thickest part of the meat reaches 150 to 180 degrees.
- Remove from oven, and set aside to cool.
- Gently heat remaining barbecue sauce.
- When meat is cool enough to handle, trim and discard fat.
- Shred meat coarsely by hand, or pull it with two forks.
- Put shredded meat in a large bowl, and toss with warmed sauce.
- Serve on rolls or slices of white bread, with coleslaw and bread-and-butter pickles on the side.
barbecue sauce, olive oil, pork butt, rolls
Taken from cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/6867 (may not work)