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Italian Pulled Pork

Cooked low & slow, Italian Pulled Pork makes tangy delicious sandwiches! Enjoy easy pulled pork sandwiches for dinner tonight.

Welcome to the December 13, 2015 edition of Sunday Scratchups: Your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery sales and affordable ingredients. This week big old bone-in pork shoulder roasts have been cheap, and I got a 6.5 lb roast for just $5.83!

My local grocery store fortuitously also had cheap jars of peppers and a great wine rebate deal going this week. Plus, I kind of wanted another excuse to use my rocking new Dutch oven. Thus — Italian Pulled Pork was born.

Italian pulled pork sandwiches

Everyone here loved this super easy Italian Pulled Pork recipe, and your house will smell wonderful for hours as it slow cooks its way to tenderness in your oven.

Italian Pulled Pork

Italian pulled pork ingredients

Ingredients

Ingredients

6-7 lb pork shoulder roast
Kosher salt, to taste
black pepper, to taste
1 Tbsp oregano
Olive oil
3 medium or 4 small onions, sliced into rings
1 cup red wine
1 jar sliced hot cherry peppers, with juice (use banana peppers for a milder version)
28 oz crushed tomatoes
3 Tbsp minced garlic

Directions

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Season top and bottom of pork roast with salt, pepper, and oregano. Brown the roast in olive oil over medium heat in a large Dutch oven for about four minutes a side, then remove to separate plate.

Add onions to Dutch oven and saute until just browned and starting to soften, then turn off heat. Add wine and stir.

Place pork roast on top of onions, then add peppers, tomatoes, and garlic. Cover and cook in a 300 degree oven for four hours or until pork pulls apart easily, turning the meat over halfway through.

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Remove pork from Dutch oven and pull apart, discarding bone and fat layer. Remove peppers and onions with a slotted spoon and serve as a separate garnish for your pulled pork sandwiches. Italian pulled pork goes well with French rolls and provolone.

Juicy pulled pork sandwiches — with a slight kick!

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The hot cherry peppers add a nice little kick to this variation on pulled pork, but don’t make it overly spicy since we’re using such a large roast here. The pulled pork itself is gluten free, too; you could easily serve it on gluten free rolls.

Italian Pulled Pork cooks up so moist and flavorful, and will be a definite addition to our “cheap giant pork roast” recipe repertoire. (This was a very large roast, so tomorrow night’s dinner is now easily taken care of as well! Tasty leftovers are always a welcome bonus.)

Italian Pulled Pork, printable recipe

Italian Pulled Pork

Course dinner
Cuisine pulled pork
Keyword dutch oven, Italian pulled pork, pulled pork, pulled pork sandwiches
Total Time 4 hours 25 minutes
Servings 10

Equipment

Ingredients

  • 6-7 lb pork shoulder roast
  • Kosher salt, to taste
  • black pepper, to taste
  • 1 Tbsp oregano
  • Olive oil
  • 3 medium or 4 small onions, sliced into rings
  • 1 cup red wine
  • 1 jar sliced hot cherry peppers, with juice (use banana peppers for a milder version)
  • 28 oz crushed tomatoes
  • 3 Tbsp minced garlic

Instructions

  • Season top and bottom of pork roast with salt, pepper, and oregano.
  • Brown the roast in olive oil over medium heat in a large Dutch oven for about four minutes a side, then remove to separate plate.
  • Add onions to Dutch oven and saute until just browned and starting to soften, then turn off heat.
  • Add wine and stir.
  • Place pork roast on top of onions, then add peppers, tomatoes, and garlic.
  • Cover and cook in a 300 degree oven for four hours or until pork pulls apart easily, turning the meat over halfway through.
  • Remove pork from Dutch oven and pull apart, discarding bone and fat layer.
  • Remove peppers and onions with a slotted spoon and serve as a separate garnish for your pulled pork sandwiches.
  • Italian pulled pork goes well with French rolls and provolone.

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Recipe Rating




letsshop

Sunday 13th of December 2015

Rachel where did you get your dutch oven ? my daughters has one on her wish list , iron dutch oven ,she seen one at SAMS for $35 6.5 qts.and liked it ,so was checking them out today .

Outlander

Wednesday 16th of December 2015

I have the one from Sam's and it's great. Very heavy. I've had it for years now. The knob on the lid gets loose sometimes, but just tighten it and it's fine.

rachel

Sunday 13th of December 2015

I got mine on Amazon -- it's a 7 quart Simply Calphalon that was on sale a couple of weeks ago, so I had MashupDad get it for me for Chanukah. It's no longer on sale, though. I do have an older 5 quart Lodge cast iron one, also from Amazon.