Carolina Style Pulled Pork Sliders – Tender juicy pork cooked in a slow cooker with tangy barbecue flavor, topped with a sweet and spicy slaw!
What is it about sliders that makes them taste ten times more wonderful than a regular-sized sandwich? It’s the little cuteness factor isn’t it. Like mini pencils and Mini Coopers and mini little humans (babies). There’s just something cute about little stuff. And delicious. For example, ten mini cheesecake bite tastes way better than a regular sized slice of cheesecake.
These Carolina Style Pulled Pork Sliders are so easy to prepare. It’s basically one of those set it and forget it recipes (aka my favorite) and requires hardly any work at all! Let the slow cooker do the work! The pork is so juicy and tender and bursting with Carolina flavors. A little sweet with a little tang. I love it. And I am NOT a cole slaw person, but I love love love this slaw. Pile it high my friends, pile it high.
Carolina Style Pulled Pork Sliders
Ingredients
- ½ red onion - sliced
- ½ white onion - sliced
- 4-6 pounds boston butt - or pork loin roast (boneless)
First Sauce
- ½ cup apple cider vinegar
- ¾ cup ketchup
- ⅓ cup brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon worcestershire sauce
- ½ teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
Second Sauce
- ½ cup apple cider vinegar
- ½ cup ketchup
- 2 tablespoons barbecue sauce
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 3 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon worcestershire sauce
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
Slaw
- 2 cups thinly sliced green cabbage
- 2 cups thinly sliced red cabbage - (may sub broccoli slaw, or other packaged cole slaw without dressing)
- ¼ cup mayo - + more for slider buns
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- ½ teaspoon cayenne pepper
- ½ teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Place onion slices in the bottom of your slow cooker. Place pork roast on top of onions. Whisk together ingredients for first sauce. Pour first sauce over roast. Cover and cook on low 8 hours or on high 4 hours.
- Whisk together all ingredients for second sauce. 30 minutes before serving, remove pork from slow cooker and shred with two forks. Drain juices and onions from slow cooker. Return shredded pork to slow cooker. Pour second sauce over pork and stir to combine. Cover and cook 30 minutes longer.
- Prepare the slaw by tossing sliced cabbage with mayo, white sugar, cayenne pepper, and salt. Chill until ready to serve. Slice slider buns in half crosswise. To prepare sliders, spread about 1 tablespoon mayo onto one half of each slider bun. Top with shredded pork (about 1/4-1/3 cup) and top pork with slaw.
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If you like these pulled pork sliders, you’ll love my quick and easy Cajun Chicken.
I make a super similar slider and agree, they’re so much better small! (Mine were just happenstance miniature because those were the only gluten-free rolls I could find that day – haha). Yours are too cute!
I made these this weekend and had some really good feedback …especially on the the slaw. I took some liberties and added a bit more cayenne pepper to the mix and a bunch of folks asked me for the recipe or commented on how good it was. So thanks for the idea it was super simple and easy to do (i plan on smoking the picnic next time). One thing I wish I could have done was found some sliders that looked like yours in the photos. My local grocer only had processed crappy ones 🙁 which i think took away from the overall deliciousness, but not by much. So thanks, it was delicious.
Hi Tiffany! I’ve been itching to try and make pulled pork sandwiches for awhile now. But I have a question. In your list of ingredients you say use “good bbq sauce”, which kind did you use? There are so many bbq sauce options that I’m afraid I’ll over-think it.
These were incredible!! I just searched an hour to find this recipe again.
The best!!
Did everyone make this with loin? I have a huge loin and I don’t know if it will have enough fat to make this.