WHOLE HOG ROASTED
Make and share this Whole Hog Roasted recipe from Food.com.
Provided by Timothy H.
Categories Pork
Time 9h
Yield 70 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Split backbone to allow pig to lay flat, being careful not to pierce skin.
- Trim and discard any excess fat. sprinkle salt inside cavity. set pig aside.
- Place 2O lbs charcoal in pork cooker. pour 1 quart charcoal lighter fluid.
- over top, and ignite. Let burn until charcoal has turned ash-grey.
- Place heavy gauge wire, about the size of pig, over pork cooker. 13" from coals.Place pig flat, skin side up, on wire surface. Close lid of cooker; cook at 225 deg. for 6 hours, adding additional lighted coals as needed to.
- maintain temperature in cooker.
- Place a second piece of wire over pig, sandwiching pig between the 2.
- layers of wire. Turn pig over; remove wire from top. Insert meat thermometer.
- in thigh; do not touch bone.
- Baste meat with BBQ sauce; pour sauce in rib cavity t o measure 1 inch.close pork cooker lid; cook at 225 for 2 hours or until meat thermometer registers 17O deg. and no pink meat is visible when hams and shoulders are cut.
- Slice and chop meat or allow guests to pull (pick) meat from bones.
- Serve with BBQ sauce.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 22.5, Sodium 2471.5, Carbohydrate 3.2, Fiber 0.1, Sugar 3.1
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