Cooking at Home - Pineapple Pulled Pork

Photo by Patrick Jones. Pulled Pork, 10 Mar 2021.

We've been blessed with incredible early Spring weather for the past few days. Yesterday I tried a variation on my pulled pork recipe for my first pulled pork of 2021. We had King's Hawaiian Rolls instead of home-pressed blue corn tortillas for yesterday's version, along with a fresh-cut pineapple from our weekly farm box delivery.

I started with a 4.6 pound pork shoulder that I picked up from our local butcher on Tuesday. I used Traeger's pork and poultry rub along with brown sugar and put the rub on Tuesday afternoon. I started the grill at 8am yesterday and set it to 250. The pork cooked for five hours, and then I put it into a foil pan. In place of apple cider, I used 1/3 cup fresh squeezed pineapple juice from the pineapple and about 1/4 cup of apple cider vinegar. I covered the pork with foil and let it cook for an additional 3.5 hours. The meat was ready to come off the grill by 6pm.

As sides we had a red cabbage and date slaw, pickles and grilled pineapple. Our vegetarian had roasted tofu squares that had been cooked with 33rd & Galena seasoning and roasted in the oven for 45 minutes at 425 (flipped half way through cooking). We also had the last of some homemade Carolina Gold BBQ sauce and some of our local Pork Barrel BBQ sauce.

This recipe was a hit and we'll be making it again during the Spring and Summer.