Chipotle Barbecue Pulled Pork

Aug 15, 2023 • Tom Jackson

This time of year is when cooking for the masses saves time. Chef Tom’s, Chipotle Barbecue Pulled Pork is the perfect choice to plan for those busy nights. With equal parts smokiness, sweetness, and spiciness it's packed with lots of flavor. It will for sure melt in your mouth.

Chipotle Barbecue Pulled Pork

Tom Jackson

Rated 3.5 stars by 51 users

Cuisine

American

Servings

24

Prep Time

15 minutes

Cook Time

15 hours

Calories

427

Chef Tom’s Chipotle Barbecue Pulled Pork is smokey, sweet, and spicy all at the same time. It’s also a crowd-pleaser with the versatility of turning it into sliders to tacos. With a little planning and prep you can turn this into many meals throughout the week.

Ingredients

Creekstone Farms Bone-in Boston Butt Pork Roast
Hoff & Pepper Smoken Ghost Hot Sauce, for binder
R Butts R Smokin Honey Chipotle Seasoning
Cattleman’s Grill Smoky Chipotle Coffee
1 each Chipotle pepper (in adobo sauce)
1 tbsp adobo sauce (from can of chipotles in adobo)
1/2 cup pineapple juice
Chile Slinger Chipotle BBQ Sauce

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Directions

Preheat your Yoder Smokers YS640s Pellet Grill to 190ºF.
Trim, then slather your pork butt with Hoff & Pepper Smokin Ghost Hot Sauce, for binder.
Season with a layer of R Butts R Smokin' Honey Chipotle Seasoning, then a secondary layer of Cattleman’s Grill Smoky Chipotle.
Place the pork butt on the second shelf of the grill and smoke overnight (8-12 hours) until a deep mahogany colored bark is formed and the internal temperature is between 145ºF-165ºF.
Remove from the grill. Increase grill temperature to 275ºF.
Place the pork butt on top of two sheets of heavy duty foil. Add the pineapple juice, chipotle pepper and adobo sauce to the foil.
Wrap tightly and return to the second shelf of the grill.
Cook until the blade bone is easily removed, and the meat is ready to shred, about 205ºF+ and approximately 3 hours.
Remove from the grill and let rest until cool enough to shred with cotton and nitrile gloved hands. Shred meat by hand. Drizzle with Chile Slinger Chipotle BBQ Sauce to taste.

Recipe Note

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What is a Chipotle?

By breaking down the meaning of the word, we will know the definition. Chipotle is a compound word made of two Aztec words. The first is; chīlli 'chile' which means,‘hot pepper’, and the second is pōctli which means, ‘smoke’. In short, Chipotle means smoked pepper.

A Chipotle is a ripe jalapeño pepper which is dried and then smoked. But when one thinks of a jalapeño, one imagines a vibrant grassy green. Jalapeños are like berries and yes, peppers are fruits because it has seeds. Jalapeños change color as they mature as do grapes. Jalapeños are green when picked early before it ripens on the vine and then they turn red the longer it’s left on the vine. Leaving them on the vine longer also allows them to be sweeter and work better for smoking.

A chipotle can come in many forms from powder to flakes and from marinades to canned in adobo sauce.