My family loves pulled pork. It’s a staple in our menu because it’s delicious and so easy to make in the slow cooker. It is also not a tedious meal because you can add any flavors you want to the sauce. When in a pinch, I go simple with store-bought bbq sauce. But when I’m feeling creative, I make my own sauce and add orange juice, pomegranate concentrate, whiskey or countless other flavorings to make my sauce sing. And when you are dealing with a giant pork shoulder roast or pork butt roast, you are blessed with leftovers that taste BETTER the next day. But what else can you do besides make another pulled pork sandwich?
Think outside the bun, because I have compiled these 15 Leftover Pulled Pork Recipes:
- Mix it in your macaroni and cheese.
- Crown your baked potato with a scoop.
- Make a batch of pulled pork nachos.
- Try some pulled pork enchiladas.
- Stir some into your next batch of chili.
- Top your salad with some bbq goodness.
- Dollop the pork into baby lettuce cups or endive for a gluten-free treat.
- Wrap them in gyoza and make some pulled pork won tons or dumplings.
- Go one-step further and roll them with cabbage to make pulled pork egg rolls.
- Stuff it in an omelette for a cowboy breakfast.
- Combine it with queso for a game-day dip.
- Go Cajun and serve it over rice and beans.
- Enjoy it in a savory crêpe.
- Smother some over your french fries and top with cheese.
- Bake your pulled pork into a quiche.
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Pulled pork is such good stuff! And homemade BBQ is the way to go (though you can buy some mighty good boutique commercial ones these days). But of course when you make your own pulled pork you end up with a mountain of meat. Some great suggestions for what to do with the leftovers. Thanks!
Great ideas on ways to use the leftovers. I’ve done a few of those, but can’t wait to try some of the others. When I smoke a pork butt, I often do 2 or 3 and freeze the rest so we have a stash on hand for when the cravings hit. Thanks for sharing.
Well, as I am from Oz, but don’t have my own blog, I should not comment?! But I simply have never heard the term ‘pulled pork’ here? [Altho' a number of US recipes have long taught!]. Other Oz readers, please help! But I do understand the term, and, since I love lean pork, it is more than appetizing, & I am ever so grateful to write all these ideas down and try them, one by one
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Pulled pork is not something you hear much about here but I am intrigued. I don’t have a slow cooker though and usually have to make quick meals because I don’t get home from work until after 6pm. Maybe on the weekends…
I’d do anything to get the bbq pulled pork sandwich on top. I need to go sleep, but I have a feeling that I’d be thinking about this until I pass out.
We are trying pulled pork cheese fries tonight. My husband is going to be in heaven! thank you.
ABT’s… Also known as Atomic Buffalo Turds in the BBQ business. Cut a jalapeño in half stuff it with Crete cheese and your left over pulled pork then wrap that with bacon. Was a toothpick to hold it all together. Cook on your grill or oven at 350 for 35 to 45 minutes until the bacon is crisp.
Taco’s…. Or roll the pork in a tortilla and deep fry it until it browns.
Make a stew…
Put it in chili…
Pulled pork is just slow cooked, so that it pulls easily off the bone. Delish.