Instant Pot Pork Shoulder Recipe
Easy Instant Pot pork shoulder recipe you will love. Amazing barbecue pulled pork sandwiches made in your pressure cooker. Juicy pork usually takes all day to get this tender but in your Instant Pot it takes less than a few hours to fall apart.
Servings: 10
Equipment
- 1 pressure cooker
Ingredients
- 1 Pork shoulder ours was about 5 lbs.
- 2 tbsp seasoned salt I use Lawry's
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 2 tbsp paprika
- 1/2 c brown sugar
- 2 tbsp chili powder or more, your preference
- 2 tbsp garlic powder
Homemade Barbecue Sauce
- 1 c apple cider vinegar or use bottle of bbq sauce 16 oz.
- 1 c ketchup
- 2 tbsp worcestershire sauce
Instructions
- Mix together your ketchup, vinegar, and worcestershire sauce. Pour half of this into your pot.
- Mix together your spices and then rub it into your pork shoulder, top and bottom.
- Cut your pork shoulder in half and put it into your Instant Pot or pressure cooker. (it comes out more tender when cut into smaller pieces)
- Pour the remaining sauce you made over your piece of pork and set your IP to manual, pressure, high, for 90 minutes (for 4.5 pounds this made it very easy to shred).
- Close steam valve.
- When done do a natural release for 10 minutes, then release rest of steam and carefully lift lid. Shred pork with 2 forks and serve on buns with coleslaw for sandwiches.
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Nutrition
Serving: 4oz | Calories: 360kcal | Carbohydrates: 20g | Protein: 24g | Fat: 19g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Cholesterol: 86mg | Sodium: 1745mg | Potassium: 552mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 16g | Vitamin A: 1275IU | Vitamin C: 2.1mg | Calcium: 56mg | Iron: 2.5mg