Spicey Pulled Pork Recipe

9 ingredients
7 steps

Ingredients

  • 2-3 lb pork roast (shoulder, butt, or similar cut)
  • 3 Tb vegetable oil
  • 1 14oz can low sodium chicken broth
  • 1 small onion diced
  • 3 cloves garlic pressed
  • 3 Tb Ancho, New Mex, or other mild-medium heat pure ground chili powder...NOT chili powder blend
  • 1 Tb ground cumin
  • 1/2 ts kosher salt
  • 2 diced fresh jalapeno peppers (more or less to taste)

Directions

  1. 1
    Heat oil in an oven proof dutch oven and brown pork on all sides.
  2. 2
    The dutch.oven should be just large enough not to crowed the meat but not too large.
  3. 3
    Preheat oven to 350 deg F.
  4. 4
    In a bowel mix all other ingredients well and pour over the pork in the dutch oven to just cover the pork.
  5. 5
    Place the cover on the dutch oven and bake in the oven for 3-4 hours until the pork shreds easily.
  6. 6
    Check occasionally and add more chicken broth or water as necessary to keep the liquid level up.
  7. 7
    When the pork shreds easily, remove from the oven and shred with two forks.

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