A delicious Asian Pulled Pork dish served with fluffy bao buns. Saucy and tender, it’s a family favourite and it tastes so good!

The thing about this Asian Pulled Pork recipe is that the oven really does all the work! Add all your sauce ingredients into your Biroix cast iron dish or a large casserole dish, and place in the oven for 4-6 hours until it is falling apart. I love serving it with warm fluffy bao buns but it is also delicious with Roti in a hawker roll, or in burger buns.

What ingredients go into this recipe:

For the pork you need:

2 kg piece of Pork, Leg or shoulder, bone in or bone out.
Hoisin Sauce
Onions
Soy sauce
Honey
Ginger, peeled and grated on the microplane
Garlic
Beef stock, or chicken stock

For the Bao Buns

Red onion, sliced
Red wine vinegar
White sugar
Coriander leaves
Bao Buns – you can buy these from most supermarkets in the frozen section
Carrot
Cucumber
Mint
Red chilli, i like a mild chilli for this recipe but you can always take the seeds out of a hotter chilli.
Kewpie mayo
Hoisin Sauce

How to make Asian Pulled Pork:

To make the pulled pork, preheat oven to 150 degrees fan bake. Place all pulled pork ingredients, except pork, in your Biroix Dutch oven and stir well, add pork and stir and coat with sauce. Place in the oven and cook for 4-8 hours, check every hour, and baste with the sauce.

It is cooked when it is easy to pull apart with a fork. It should fall apart. Once cooked, remove the meat from the liquid, now you have the option to strain the liquid or not, I usually do so that the kids don’t pick out pieces of onion! Then place the liquid back in your dish and on a medium heat and reduce the sauce. This can take between 20 – 40 minutes. It will reduce by about a third. Once cool enough to handle, ‘pull’ the pork by using two forks. Discard any fat or gristle or bone. Once the sauce has reduced nicely, add the pork back into the sauce.

To serve, pickle the red onion by placing in a bowl with red wine vinegar and sugar. When serving, steam the buns by following packet instructions. Spread with hoisin sauce, Kewpie mayo, and place some pork in the middle. Add cucumber, carrot, red onion, coriander, mint and red chilli. Serve.

If you are looking for more recipes using pork check out my posts for Pork Schnitzel and Hoisin Pork Ribs.

Common questions about Asian Pulled Pork :

Can I freeze Pulled Pork? You can freeze the pulled pork, when ready to prepare, defrost and heat on the stove top.

Can I make the pulled pork in advance? Absolutely, I often make this Asian Pulled Pork a day prior and refrigerate overnight and just reheat the next day.

What wine would go well with the Asian Pulled Pork? A lovely Pinot Noir would be a stunning match.