Pulled pork

  • Lactose free
  • Gluten free

Derived from ingredients – check the package label.

  • Good for lunch

Less suited for dinner.

Slow-roasted pork shoulder pulled in its own juices.

4 servingsFinal yield 1,700 g

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Ingredients

  • 1,200 gPork, fresh, shoulder, whole, separable lean and fat, raw
  • 200 gOnions, raw
  • 20 gGarlic, raw
  • 400 gTomatoes, red, ripe, canned, packed in tomato juice, no salt added
  • 20 gOil, olive, salad or cooking
  • 8 gSpices, paprika
  • 5 gSpices, cumin seed
  • 3 gSpices, pepper, red or cayenne
  • 8 gSalt, table
  • 250 gBeverages, water, tap, drinking

Method

  1. Pat shoulder dry. Dice onion to 1 cm, grate garlic, and rub meat with oil, paprika, cumin, cayenne and salt.
  2. Brown shoulder in a roasting dish heated to 185 °C for 5 minutes on each main side.
  3. Add onion, garlic, tomatoes and water around the meat, then cover the roasting dish tightly.
  4. Roast at 150 °C for 210 minutes until shoulder pulls apart easily when pressed with two forks.
  5. Pull meat into the juices, mix and roast uncovered for another 20 minutes.

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Nutrition

Calculated from the selected ingredients; not a laboratory measurement.

Whole recipe

Energy
3,233.5 kcal
Protein
215.2 g
Fat
239.8 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
47.4 g
Total dietary fibre (USDA)
15.6 g
Saturated fatty acids
78.2 g
Sodium
3,957.2 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
9.9 g

Per serving

Energy
808.4 kcal
Protein
53.8 g
Fat
60 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
11.9 g
Total dietary fibre (USDA)
3.9 g
Saturated fatty acids
19.6 g
Sodium
989.3 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
2.5 g

Per 100 g of finished food

Energy
190.2 kcal
Protein
12.7 g
Fat
14.1 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
2.8 g
Total dietary fibre (USDA)
0.91 g
Saturated fatty acids
4.6 g
Sodium
232.8 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
0.58 g

Salt is calculated from sodium (g salt = mg sodium × 2.5 / 1000) and includes sodium from all ingredients.

A dash means the value is unknown, not zero.

Calculation limitations

  • Nutrition is a calculated estimate, not a laboratory measurement.
  • The final yield is an editorial estimate.
  • The number of servings is an editorial estimate (midpoint of the source range or based on the dish type and energy).
  • Fibre, saturated fat and sodium of cooked ingredients are estimated from the consumed ingredient amounts; for drained ingredients, sodium is included only where the retained amount is an explicit editorial estimate.
  • Some process effects could not be resolved in this calculation.

Allergens

Contains none of the 14 main allergens.

Derived from ingredients – check the package label.

Food data sources

  • USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy (2018-04) · USDA Agricultural Research Service, FoodData Central SR Legacy. · CC0 1.0 Universal