Orange Honey BBQ Pork Butt

By Mangia Paleo January 25, 2015 Recipes 6 Comments

What’s better than a fatty and meaty pork butt? Nothing. The answer is nothing.

Ingredients:

Most important ingredient: 3 pound pork butt

Rub:

1 tsp cayenne

1 tsp onion powder

1 tsp smoked paprika

Salt and pepper to taste

2 drops liquid smoke

Orange Honey BBQ Sauce:

3/4 cup orange juice

3 tbsp pure honey

1/4 cup brown mustard

12 oz tomato paste

1/3 cup cider vinegar

3 garlic cloves, pressed or grated to make a paste

2 tsp smoked paprika

2 tsp cayenne

Salt and pepper to taste

BBQ sauce prep: Blend all BBQ sauce ingredients in a sauce pan. Cook on medium low for at least 30 minutes.

Serves 6

Directions:

The BBQ sauce is easy! Add everything to a small stove top pan and simmer on low for about 20 minutes. Yup. That easy. For the pork:

1. Mix all the rub spices together. Liberally massage the spices all over the raw pork.

2. Place the pork butt in a slow cooker for 8-12 hours on low. This is the step you may also drop in 2 or 3 drops of liquid smoke.

3. Once the pork is cooked pull apart the meat with forks and/or your hands. Obviously it will be very hot, so you may want to remove it from the heat for a little bit before doing this. I know this is a common-sense thing, but I have to add it just in case someone goes to the ER with burns and tells the nurse they were following my recipe exactly.

I digress.

4. Once you’ve pulled apart the meat add about 1 cup of bbq sauce. Mix it in evenly. The amount you add is up to you. I sometimes add a little bit of the juice form the crockpot in at this point too. It keeps it form drying out if you’re going to reheat it for leftovers.