Root Beer Pulled Pork Sliders are a simple crock-pot recipe made with just a few ingredients of pork shoulder, bottle of root beer and barbecue sauce. Place on slider buns with a drizzle of barbecue sauce and serve with pickles and potato chips for a great way to feed a crowd.
Football season is in full swing and the weekends consist of a lot of watching the games on tv. This recipe is perfect for game day eating and just the type of recipe you need to feed some friends while watching your favorite team. Serve with some pickle spears and potato chips with other sides like coleslaw or macaroni and cheese.
You may also enjoy this recipe for Shells and Cheese. Try some Root Beer Pulled Pork on top!
Root Beer Pulled Pork Sliders
Root Beer Pulled Pork Sliders have tender, melt-in-your-mouth pork with lots of delicious barbecue sauce. The barbecue sauce adds that great smoky, tangy, sweet flavor that compliments pulled pork so well. It doesn’t really matter what barbecue sauce is used- pick your favorite or what’s on sale!
Tips & Tricks
Mix or Drizzle
Half the barbecue sauce will go into the crock-pot to slow cook and help flavor the pork. The other half is used after cooking. You can either mix it into the meat so the sauce is distributed evenly or you can let people just drizzle some on the sandwiches to get as much or as little as they would like.
Prep
Since this recipe does have a long cook time, you can start it right before you go to bed the night before and let it cook through the night. Place the crock-pot on warm or when you get up in the morning and the meat will be ready to shred for kick-off.
Root Beer Pulled Pork Sliders
Equipment
- Crock-pot
Ingredients
- 3-4 pounds pork shoulder
- 12 ounces bottle root beer any brand
- 18 ounces barbecue sauce any brand
- 12 slider buns
- salt
- ground pepper
Instructions
- Trim the pork shoulder to remove the visible fat.
- Salt and pepper all sides of the pork and place into crock-pot.
- Pour in a bottle of root beer and a HALF the bottle of barbecue sauce.
- Cook on low for 10 hours or until you can easily shred the meat with a fork.
- Remove from crock-pot and shred meat using two forks.
- Place on slider buns and drizzle with barbecue sauce or you can mix the batch of meat with the remaining barbecue sauce and then assemble sandwiches.
What are some of your favorite game day recipes?? Let me know in the comments below.
How much root beer? I have it cooking now. I used 20 Oz. Covers half of the roast. Is that enough?
Yeah, just a bottle. you don’t have to have the root beer cover it all. If you are home to flip it half way through cooking also. Let me know how it turns out!
Whew. Thanks. It’s been cooking 5 hrs already. I also seasoned roast with a little Adobo and pepper. 3 hrs left. Fingers crossed.
I love pulled pork! I normally try it with Dr. Pepper, but I bet this way is even better! Thank you for sharing!
Dr Pepper is a great idea too!
Adding root beer helps break down the meat and makes it taste so wonderful. Keeping this one.
Going to try this recipe very soon. It looks so good 🙂
YUM! I love pork sliders but have never tried to make them myself. I may have to try this recipe for myself!
You should! It is so easy!