Recipe by Jay Ducote | Food and Cooking Photography by Collin Richie
These Pulled Pork Sliders with Slaw and Blackberry BBQ Sauce are the ultimate crowd-pleasing bite for game days, tailgates, and backyard cookouts. Smoked pork shoulder is shredded to perfection and piled high on slider buns, topped with tangy homemade slaw and a sweet-spicy blackberry barbecue sauce. Easy to share and full of bold Southern flavor, these sliders are a must-make for any gathering.
Pulled Pork Sliders with Slaw and Blackberry BBQ Sauce
Makes about 24
Ingredients
- 1 (6- to 8-pound) boneless Boston butt pork shoulder
- 1 cup barbecue rub
- ½ cup mayonnaise
- ¼ cup rice wine vinegar
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1 teaspoon celery salt
- ½ teaspoon ground black pepper
- 2 cups shredded purple cabbage
- 2 cups shredded green cabbage
- 1 cup shredded carrots
- 1 cup Noni’s Kitchen Blackberry Hot Lava Finishing Sauce (or other blackberry pepper jelly)
- 1 cup barbecue sauce Slider buns, to serve
Instructions
- Preheat smoker to 250° to 275°.
- Cut the boneless pork shoulder into 8 large pieces, roughly the size of a baseball to a softball, doing your best to make them as even as possible. Rub the outside of the pork shoulder with barbecue rub, making sure to coat all sides liberally with the rub. Smoke the pork shoulder over Louisiana pecan wood or other wood of your choosing until the internal temperature reaches 200° to 205° and the pork can shred easily. It should take 3 to 5 hours, but it will depend on your smoker and pork.
- While the pork is on the smoker, make the slaw. In a medium bowl, combine mayo, vinegar, honey, celery salt, and black pepper. Stir until fully combined.
- In a large bowl, add purple cabbage, green cabbage, carrots, and the slaw dressing. Toss to combine. Refrigerate until needed.
- Combine Noni’s Blackberry Hot Lava and barbecue sauce in a bowl and stir.
- When finished cooking, allow pork to cool until it is comfortable enough to handle. Using a couple of forks or your hands, shred the pork apart.
- In each bun, add pulled pork, sauce, and slaw. Eat up!
