Pulled Pork

Ingrédients

• 4-5lbs pork shoulder

• 3 heaping tbsp smoked paprika

• 1.5% salt by weight of pork shoulder

• 2 tbsp brown sugar

• 4 garlic cloves

• 6 thyme sprigs

• 4 onions

• black pepper to taste

• 4 tbsp olive oil

Instructions

To begin, make the marinade. Take a mixing bowl and add your crushed garlic alongside the paprika, brown sugar, salt and pepper. Mix this until well combined and then slowly add olive soil to the mixture until it becomes a paste. Add the fresh thyme but make sure to keep the thyme stalks.

Pour your marinade onto the pork and massage it into the skin. Drizzle some olive oil on top of the pork in order to keep it moist. The longer you let it marinade the better it will taste. Ideally, place in the fridge three days prior to cooking for the ideal pulled pork.

Once the pork has been marinated and you are ready to serve, preheat the oven to 275F.

Cut the onions into quarters and let them sit at the bottom of the pan. Add the thyme stalks on top of the onions and then place the pork shoulder on top.

The slower you cook the pork, the juicer and more tender it will be. Place your pork shoulder in the oven and cook for around five and a half hours to six hours, until the pork is falling off the bone. 200-205F internal temp

Once the pork has been cooked, remove it from the tray, cover it in tinfoil and let it rest for half an hour.

You will be able to easily remove the pork from the bone using a fork. Place in a bowl and your deliciously tender pulled pork is ready.