Coca-Cola Pulled Pork Sliders
Coca-Cola Pulled Pork Sliders are rich and tangy with creamy apple carrot slaw on a white cheddar toasted slider bun.
Servings: 8
Ingredients
- 1 5 lb pork picnic roast
- 1/4 cup Cajun seasoning
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup brown mustard
- 1 tbsp bacon grease or lard
- 2 cans Coca-Cola
- 1 medium yellow onion quartered
- 1/4 cup Stubb's Sweet Heat BBQ sauce plus extra for serving
- 1/4 cup water if needed
- 8 slices Tillamook sharp white cheddar cheese
- 8 slider rolls buttered
Carrot Apple Slaw
- 1 carrot peeled and cut in matchsticks
- 1 apple peeled and cut in matchsticks
- 1/2 cup cabbage shredded
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise
- 1 tbsp white vinegar
- 2 tsp sugar
- 1 splash milk to thin
- 1 pinch salt and pepper
Instructions
- Rub roast with brown mustard. Massage in Cajun seasoning and brown sugar.
- Heat a large heavy bottom pan over medium high heat.
- Place bacon grease in pot and sear roast, rotating sides until browned all over.
- Add Coca-Cola, onion, BBQ sauce and water if needed. Liquid should come to half way up the roast.
- Reduce heat to low, cover and simmer for about 4 hours or until when pierced with fork, meat pulls away in strands.
- Pull pork into strands, toss with a little BBQ sauce diluted in a splash of water.
- Toast buttered slider buns with a slice of cheese on the top half.
- Pile on the pulled pork and apple carrot slaw.
Carrot Apple Slaw
- In a small bowl combine mayonnaise, vinegar, sugar, milk, salt and pepper.
- In a medium bowl, combine vegetables and toss with mayonnaise mixture.
- Serve over shredded pork on a slider roll. Add pickled jalapenos. if desired.