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One of the best bbq pulled pork recipes out there! Bold, flavorful, tender and perfect for weekly meal prep, freezer meals or a killer pulled pork sandwich! Find out how to make it in no time thanks to the pressure cooker!
All aboard the Instant Pot/Pressure Cooker train folks! CHOO CHOO! lol God I love pressure cooking! But then again, you kind of already know that considering I post so many recipes and have been preaching about it for years. Raise your hands if you got one for the holidays. Raise your hands if it’s still on your wish list. Hmmm…are we at the point yet where some of you have more than one pressure cooker? *raises her hand* Yeah, at one point I had 3 of them. I mean in all fairness I was testing them out. I did end up giving Mama Fantabulous my smaller 6-quart one.
Now is the time of the year when pork butts and shoulders are the cheapest. They may go a tad cheaper in the warmer months for cookouts and BBQs but in the winter, at least in Pittsburgh, they are pretty cheap. It’s football (and hockey) season which means everyone and their mother makes pulled pork. Every get-together, game night, football game, and poker night has pulled pork in some fashion.
Today I’m sharing another version of mine. The last one I shared with you (a million years ago) was with my Bacon BBQ sauce (which to date is still one of my top sauce recipes!). That Bacon BBQ Pulled pork was epic but this one, I’m kind of crushing hard on this one.
Side note, if you don’t have Coke, you can use Root Beer or Dr. Pepper.
In making this recipe you’ll notice I have a pretty nice char on it. That occurs in two ways:
- Searing the pork before pressure cooking it. Searing it helps deepen the flavor of the meats and helps seal in the juices.
- Then when it’s done, you pop it under the broiler for a few minutes to help create those charred BBQ spots like you would get had you put this in a smoker or BBQ for hours.
The beauty of this recipe is that you don’t have to wait hours upon hours for it to be done! Nope, using the size of meat I used it’s done in 75 minutes (when under pressure) and a few more minutes for the sauce to thicken and the meat to char under the broiler.
So tell me, when you make shredded beef/chicken/pork how do you shred it? I use my stand mixer when it is this large. You can most certainly use 2 large forks but it takes a little longer. The upside of that is you truly get the uneven chunks. Some are small, some are large and all are equally DELICIOUS!
For me, I have a few favorite ways to serve this. I mean obviously a pulled pork sandwich. But let me ask you this as some people are very, VERY, picky about what goes on their pulled pork sandwiches.
Are you a Pulled Pork Purist? Meaning just give you a sturdy bun, a ton of pulled pork, and a squirt of BBQ sauce? Or are you on the other end of the spectrum and need to go all out with yours? I mean we have your sturdy bun (fyi ciabatta works awesome!), a squirt of sauce, lots of pulled pork, melted cheese, vinegar-based slaw, and pickles.
So let’s dish about this pork. Seriously it’s legit. It’s so incredibly tender, moist, and honestly, makes one killer pulled pork sandwich. What I love about this recipe is that it’s pressure cooker agnostic as in it doesn’t matter if you have an Instant Pot, the All-Clad PC8, or some other brand. All you need to care about are a few things:
- Does it fit and not exceed the max fill line?
- Does it have a great seal?
- Can it fit? Yes, I know I mentioned this but it’s super important!
I’m hoping by now those of you who have a pressure cooker but are still fearful of it gather the courage to try out a recipe. It’s easy. Sure it’s scary – it’ll hiss, it’ll beep, it can burn you (if you’re in the line of the pressure valve release when you release the pressure) but if you can take your time, read the instructions and follow a recipe you’ll be a Pressure Cooking ninja in no time!
Anyway, back to this deliciousness – go buy the ingredients and make it. What I want to hear from you is HOW you eat it. Did you put it on a sandwich? Did you put it on pizza? Yeah – pizza people! FYI – this on pizza with caramelized onions, stadium cheese sauce (no, not nacho cheese sauce), and crumbled Fritos on top – seriously best fat pants food ever! This is awesome on nachos and in ice cream cones.
Wait, what? Ice Cream Cone? Yep… just wait to see what I have in store for you guys. You’re going to flip out! It’s AMAZING!
Equipment Used:
I’ve made this recipe in 2 different Pressure cookers and got equally amazing results!
The 8 quart Instant Pot rocks as it’s super easy to use and clean!
I first created this recipe in my All-Clad PC8 Pressure Cooker. It’s gas powered by the stove top and is 8.4 quart. It’s one amazing piece of equipment!
To shred the pork easily I just popped it in the stand mixer and let the paddle attachment do the work in seconds!
Ultimate Pressure Cooker BBQ Coke Pulled Pork – Break out the Instant Pot folks!
- Yield: 8-12
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Ingredients
- 4lb boneless Boston Pork Butt/pork shoulder
- 1 cup chopped yellow onions
- 1 teaspoon chipotle powder
- 2 teaspoon smoked paprika
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- 3 tablespoon brown sugar
- 2 tablespoon olive oil
- 12 ounce can Coke, not diet
- 1 1/2 cup Chipotle Maple BBQ Sauce (or any tangy bbq sauce)
- 1/2 cup water
Instructions
- Set your pressure cooker to the browning/saute cycle if electric. For the gas pressure cooker put the heat to medium-high.Pat the pork dry and set aside. In a small bowl whisk together the chipotle powder, smoked paprika, onion and garlic powders, salt, and pepper. Rub the mixture all over the pork. Add the oil to your pressure cooker.
- Once the oil shimmers gently add the pork into the pot and sear on all sides until a crust has formed. ~5-8 minutes per side. Remove the meat from the pan and set aside.
- In the pot add 1/2 cup of Coke and the chopped onions. Cook for 4 minutes, scraping down the pan with a wooden spoon to get up all of the charred bits on the bottom. Add in the rest of the coke, water, BBQ sauce, and brown sugar. Give it a quick stir.
- Place the meat in, close the lid (turn the gas to high if using a gas PC), and set the timer to 75 minutes on high. My gas PC beeps to tell me when it’s at temperature then the heat is reduced to low to maintain pressure. For the Instant Pot set it to either Meat/Stew with pressure high and the time to 75 minutes or hit Pressure Cook, High Pressure and time 75 minutes. Allow to release naturally.
- Turn on the broiler and line a pan with foil and set a cooling rack in it. Remove the pork from the pot and set it on top of the cooling rack..
- Bring the sauce to a boil (using the saute function) and allow to reduce slightly to thicken, stirring occasionally. Cook until the sauce reduces and coats the back of the spoon with a moderating coating. Transfer the sauce to a quart jar. Remember the sauce will thicken up upon cooling.
- Brush some of the sauce over top of the pork. Place the pork under the broiler and broil for 5-8 minutes until it starts to lightly char. Move the pork around broiling all sides if desired.
- Remove the pork from the oven. To make pulled pork simply shred it with 2 forks or put it into a mixer with a paddle attachment to shred quickly. Drizzle in as much or as little BBQ sauce as you’d like. To serve as slices, allow to cool slightly to slice – be sure to slice against the grain.
Notes
If you want to make this in a slow cooker, sear the meat first then add all of the ingredients plus an additional cup of water to at least a 6 quart slow cooker. Cook on low for 8-10 hours.
Keywords: Chipotle Maple BBQ Sauce, pulled pork, instant pot, coke pork, football foods
I’m new to the Instant Pot and this was the 1st recipe I tried. OMG!! It is SO good!! My sauce didn’t thicken up too much so I think I’ll pour the liquid into my gravy separator to remove the fat next time then return to pot to thicken. But the flavors are amazing! This is definitely a keeper!
I’m making it tonight. My husband got bone-in instead of without. Do you know if it will still work with your recipe and a pressure cooker. If yes, should the time or temp be adjusted. I don’t know much about pressure cooking just got it. Your pork looked sooo good and easy enough for a beginner…I just don’t want to mess it up. Thank you so much for the recipe and any advice
Hi Jen!
I’ve done bone in and boneless and I’ve seen no difference in time/temp.
As long as the weight is the same you’ll be fine
And thank you for the kind words! I can’t wait for you to make this!
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Putting the pulled pork under the broiler makes all the difference.
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By far the best pulled pork I’ve ever had! I made it for Memorial Day and it was gone I swear in seconds! It was so good that I made another batch today!
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Thank you so much Billy! That’s so awesome to hear that you had to make a 2nd batch! WOO HOO!
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I made this last night for the first time using my new instant pot. Loved it.
Thank you so much! If you have leftovers I have a bunch of recipes on the blog that you can use it in. My most popular are the Pulled Pork Nachos
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I made this tonight exactly as written and it is to die for!! Omg…thank you so much for sharing these awesome recipes. I also made the BarBq Sauce as well , Chipotle Maple and I am in love. Thanks again and can’t’ wait to try more of your recipes.
Thank you so much Barbie! I really appreciate all of your kind words! That means so much to me!
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I tried this tonight and it was fabulous. The only change I made was to the BBQ sauce. I used half a cup of Robert’s Reserve White BBQ sauce. I found it at HEB and it’s what I had on hand. Oh I guess two changes because I didn’t put it in the oven to broil but it turned out amazing. My three year old loves it.
Yeah!!! I’m so happy you loved it AND it was 3-year old approved! Woohoo! Thank you so much!
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I am doing this now. Can’t wait!
Yeah!!! I can’t wait to hear your thoughts!
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This looked so good when I got your email yesterday, I ran out to the store to buy a pork roast and made it right away. Let me tell you, it did not disappoint! I used root beer for mine because that’s what I had. I’m not even a BBQ fan, but this was amazing! So good, in fact, that I’m making another today for my in-laws. Thank you!
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Yeah Paula! I’m so happy you loved this as much as we do! Oh wow, your in-laws are going to LOVE you for sure! Thank you so much for the kind words!
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If I don’t have a pressure cooker, could you prepare this in the oven or slow cooker??