Dr Pepper Pulled Pork Sandwiches with Pickled Red Onions and Mustardy BBQ

These slow cooker pulled pork sandwiches are totally insane – they’re cooked down in a bath of Dr. Pepper and chipotle peppers, chili powder, garlic, and plenty of salt which basically means that they’re packed with flavor.

Sweet, salty, savory, and all the good things you could ever imagine, this recipe probably doesn’t even need sauce but the tanginess of the mustard-based barbecue sauce and pickled red onions, well, that adds an extra level of depth which helps balance out the sweetness of the sandwich. It’s the best, trust me.

(slow cooker) Dr Pepper Pulled Pork Sandwiches with Pickled Red Onions and Mustardy BBQ

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Prep Time 11 hours hrs

Cook Time 10 minutes mins

Total Time 11 hours hrs 10 minutes mins

Servings: 20 -25 sandwiches

Cuisine: pulled pork, Southern Sandwiches

Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients

  

• 1 boneless pork butt about 10-12 lbs
• 1-2 cups Doctor Pepper
• 3 chipotle peppers in sauce
• 4 tbsp coarse sea salt
• 1.5 tbsp chili powder
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 3 garlic cloves
• buns
• 1 cup of yellow mustard-based barbecue sauce
• 1/2 cup pickled red onions
• 1/2 cup pickled cucumber aka pickles duh

Method

 

1. Heat a large cast iron skillet until its piping hot. Meanwhile, massage the pork butt with the salt and the chili powder and olive oil.
2. When the cast iron is hot, carefully put the pork butt inside and let it start browning the exterior. After a few minutes, you should see a golden crust - at that point, flip it and repeat until all sides are braised.
3. In a crockpot, add the braised pork butt, the chipotle, the garlic and enough doctor pepper so that the crock pot is filled up a little bit higher than the middle. Put the lid on the slow cooker and and turn the heat to low.
4. Let it slow-cook for 8-10 hours. After the time has passed, carefully take out the butt and shred it with a fork.
5. This next part totally depends on your bun size - but you'll basically want to pile on a bunch of meat between two halves of your bun and then add a big spoonful of mustard barbecue sauce and a few pickled red onions.

Notes

A slow cooker and a Crockpot are the same thing, essentially. A slow cooker is an appliance of which there are lots of brands.

Crockpot is one brand of slow cooker.

Crockpot popularized slow cookers when they launched their version in the 1970s.