Pulled Pork Lettuce Wraps with Homemade BBQ Sauce
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Serves: 6
 
Ingredients
  • 4 lb pork butt
  • ¼ C kosher salt
  • ½ C + ¼ C raw cane sugar or coconut sugar
  • head of butter lettuce, leaves separated
  • 1 Tbs pork fat, lard or bacon fat
  • 1 yellow onion, very finely chopped
  • 2 cloves garlic, very finely chopped
  • 1 red chili, finely chopped
  • 2 Tbs apple cider vinegar
  • 1 Tbs fish sauce
  • 2 Tbs molasses
  • 1 Tbs smoked paprika
  • 1 Tbs mustard
  • 2 Tbs tomato paste
  • 1 C crushed tomatoes
Instructions
  1. Rub down your pork butt with the salt and sugar, let it sit 6hrs or overnight.
  2. When your ready to cook it, brush off excess salt and sugar, preheat oven to 300F and let the pork cook for about 6 hrs. or until it's tender and pull able.
  3. Turn oven up to 500F, remove the pork and sprinkle with ¼ C additional sugar for a crunchy caramelized crust. Return to oven for 10 minutes
  4. Using 2 forks just tear in to that bad boy, rip it all up, smother it in BBQ sauce and plunk it into a crunchy lettuce leaf.
  5. To make the BBQ sauce: Add fat, onion and garlic to a hot skillet and cook until slightly browned.
  6. Add the rest of the ingredients and simmer for 10 minutes. For a really smooth BBQ, you could blend it all up with a touch of stock or water. This makes about 1 C worth of sauce for smothering on your pulled pork.
Recipe by Naked Cuisine at https://www.nakedcuisine.com/pulled-pork-lettuce-wraps-homemade-bbq-sauce/