Instant Pot Raspberry Chipotle Pulled Pork (keto, paleo, THM:S)

Name: Instant Pot Raspberry Chipotle Pulled Pork
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 60 min
Total time: 65 min
Ingredients: 1 pastured pork roast (approx. 4.5 lbs); 1 cup bone broth; 2 teaspoons salt; 2 teaspoons garlic powder; 1 teaspoon black pepper; 1 6 oz. can organic BPA-free tomato paste; 1-1/2 cups raspberries; 1/4 cup raw apple cider vinegar; 2 tablespoons water; 1/2 cup Dietz Sweet; 1 to 2 tablespoons molasses (optional); 1 teaspoon onion powder; 1 teaspoon garlic powder; 1 teaspoon salt; 1 teaspoon paprika; 1 teaspoon chipotle powder (more or less to taste); 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard

Tender, juicy pastured pork roast is coated in a sweet-spicy, sugar-free BBQ sauce in this keto and paleo Instant Pot Raspberry Chipotle Pulled Pork! This yummy pressure cooker dinner is perfect for busy weeknights and can be served with grain-free or gluten-free tacos, as lettuce tacos, or over rice or cauli-rice!

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instant pot raspberry chipotle pulled pork on lettuce leaf

I looooooooove a good pulled pork. Tender, juicy, meaty… Mmmmmmmm!

I also love how the Instant Pot takes a pork roast and turns it into that tender, juicy, meaty pulled pork in way less time than a slow cooker or the oven.

So, can I be completely honest with you??

Sometimes pulled pork is all about the meat. And sometimes, it’s all about the sauce on the meat.

In this Keto Instant Pot Raspberry Chipotle Pulled Pork, it’s definitely alllllll about that sauce!

jar of raspberry chipotle bbq sauce with instant pot pulled pork

Keto Raspberry Chipotle BBQ Sauce

Y’all have given me lots of lovin’ for my Best Damn Keto Chipotle BBQ Sauce Ever. (If you haven’t tried that yet, run — don’t walk — to your kitchen and make some! It’ll take you just a few minutes, and it’s made with a blender in a jar for less mess!)

I simply made a couple of tweaks to that recipe — like adding fresh red raspberries! — to come up with a totally different flavor profile. And believe you me, the sweet-tart raspberries and that spicy chipotle and acidic sauce make one beautiful flavor profile. It’s sweet-tangy-spicy umami goodness!

Since there’s no sugar in this raspberry-chipotle sauce, it’s totally low-carb and keto-friendly. Since every store-bought bar-b-que sauce has refined sugar and/or high fructose corn syrup… And since pretty much every other bar-b-que sauce recipe on the Internet has high-carb, whole sweeteners like honey or maple syrup…

If you want sweet, but sugar-free bar-b-que sauce, you gotta make it yourself!

While the pork roast cooks away in your Instant Pot, you can quickly prep the sauce, then set it aside and put your feet up for a few minutes.

For this Instant Pot Raspberry Chipotle Pulled Pork, the sauce goes on last, like the crowning jewel of your healthy Instant Pot dinner masterpiece.

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Before we get to this yummy Instant Pot dinner recipe, let’s answer some questions about the sauce and serving suggestions!

Best berries?

When I made this recipe, we had just come home from picking wild raspberries. They grow all over the place where we live! Going for a walk or hike to pick raspberries (or thimbleberries!) is one of my favorite relaxing activities. I can forget about my worries, and it’s just me and my bucket of berries. So lovely. 🙂

So obviously, if you have access to fresh, local berries and can pick them yourself, do that.

If not, the next best option is to use fresh, organic raspberries from your local store.

Or, it’s also totally fine to use frozen raspberries — simply thaw them before making the sauce, otherwise you’ll end up with a raspberry chipotle smoothie that will have to thaw before it turns to sauce! Ha!

When I make this recipe during off-peak berry times (which is basically 50 weeks out of the year – lol), I definitely use organic frozen raspberries — which I buy in bulk from Azure Standard.

Raspberry seeds… to strain or not to strain?

Raspberries have seeds. And those seeds will end up as crunchy specks of texture in your sauce.

If you’re cool with that (we are), leave them. If seeds in your pulled pork isn’t your thing, feel free to run the sauce through a fine mesh sieve after blending it to strain the seeds out.

You’ll have to use the back of a wooden spoon or silicon spatula to push the sauce through the sieve because it’s too thick to flow through on its own.

raspberry chipotle pulled pork on lettuce with fresh raspberries

How To Serve Instant Pot Raspberry Chipotle Pulled Pork?

As you can see, we had ours as pulled pork lettuce tacos. Because lettuce has 0 carbs and makes a great boat for pulled pork (albeit, a little messy for eating with one’s hands). With some Fermented Cilantro Lime Jalapenos, a little sprinkle of cilantro, and extra Raspberry Chipotle BBQ Sauce, they were PERFECT. 🙂

But I’m all about a versatile recipe, so let’s see how many other ways we can serve it!

Regular tacos — masa harina or sprouted corn tortillas, blue corn shells, sourdough tortillas
Paleo tacos — use Siete’s Cassava-Coconut Tortillas
Over rice (Here’s how to cook sprouted brown rice in your Instant Pot for a quick, digestible, and nourishing side!)
Over cauli-rice (Plain with salt or turn up the anti-inflammatory factor with my tasty Smokey Turmeric Cauli Rice.)
Eat leftovers cold on a salad.
With a low-carb Classic No-Tato Salad
With some soaked Instant Pot Ranchero Beans

Cooking Times For Pulled Pork

First off, you can use a few cuts of pork for this recipe — pork shoulder roast, Boston butt — really, any pork roast will do. For this recipe, I used a 4.5-pound, bone-in, pastured pork shoulder roast. (Here’s how to find pastured pork in your area.)

Initially, I set my cook time to 60 minutes on high pressure. Yet, when it beeped and I released the pressure, I found that my pork roast was fully cooked, but not tender. So, I put it back in for another 20 minutes.

That did it!

Because altitude, weight of your pork roast, and more factor in to cooking times, it’s possible that 10 people could make this recipe and all 10 might use a different cooking time. That doesn’t mean it’s a faulty recipe… it just means you have to be comfortable with improvising a bit. 🙂

So, in the recipe, I’m putting 60 to 80 minutes, possibly longer. If, after cooking, your roast isn’t tender and easily pulled apart with a fork, IT’S NOT DONE.

I say that in big, bold words because I see so many people complaining about their meats not being tender or flavorful when they follow an Instant Pot recipe. It doesn’t make the recipe “bad”; it simply means that there are a lot of variables (like temperature, altitude, meat weight, etc.) that factor in to cooking a juicy, fall-off-the-bone pulled pork.

Just know — if you pressure cook your roast for 60 minutes, and it’s not easily pulling apart with a fork after that 60 minutes — you can simply put the lid back on your Instant Pot, and cook it for another 20 (or more) minutes until it DOES pull apart easily with a fork.

You got this!

The Best Way To “Pull” Pork

Traditionally, pulled pork is “pulled” apart by hand, using 2 forks. For a 4 to 6-pound roast, that’s a lot of handiwork (and yes, it makes your hands/wrists tired!).

My brother has “claws” like this for pulling meats apart. He loves them, but I feel like they’re cumbersome and just as much work as using forks.

So, what do I use?

My stand mixer!

I put the entire roast in my stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment and let the mixer do all the work for me! Personally, I think that’s the *best* way to pull pork and other meats!

You do what works for YOU, Momma!

Now, let’s make this flavorful Instant Pot Raspberry Chipotle Pulled Pork!

5 from 4 votes

Instant Pot Raspberry Chipotle Pulled Pork

CourseMain Dish

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 1 hour

Total Time 1 hour 5 minutes

Servings 6 servings

Author Lindsey Dietz

Ingredients

For The Pork Roast:

1pastured pork roastapprox. 4.5 lbs
1cup bone brothor water
2teaspoons salt
2teaspoons garlic powder
1teaspoonblack pepper

For The Raspberry Chipotle BBQ Sauce

16 oz. can organic BPA-free tomato paste
1-1/2cupsraspberries
1/4cupraw apple cider vinegar
2tablespoonswater
1/2cup Dietz Sweetor your favorite low-carb sweetener*
1 to 2tablespoons molassesoptional
1teaspoon onion powder
1teaspoon garlic powder
1teaspoon salt
1teaspoon paprika
1teaspoon chipotle powdermore or less to taste
1teaspoonDijon mustard

Instructions

Make The Pork Roast:

Place the pork roast in the stainless steel insert of your Instant Pot (6-quart minimum size).
Add the bone broth or water.
Then sprinkle the salt, garlic powder, and pepper over the roast.
Secure the lid on the Instant Pot, making sure the seal is in working order.
Seal the vent, press the Manual button, and adjust the time to 60 minutes on high pressure.
While the roast cooks, make the sauce.

Make The Raspberry Chipotle BBQ Sauce:

Place all ingredients in a blender. Or, place the ingredients in a quart-size wide-mouth Mason jar and use an immersion blender.
Set aside.
When the Instant Pot beeps, release pressure immediately. Then, check the roast.
If you can easily pull it apart with 2 forks, it's done! If not, put it back in and approximate how much time you might need to finish it. Anywhere from 15 to 30 minutes is normal.
Once the pork is done and tender, remove it from the pot and shred it however you like -- with 2 forks, with claws, with a stand mixer, sending your kids outside to jump on the trampoline with it.
Remove the cooking juices from the pot, too, and reserve them.
Pour 3/4 of the Raspberry Chipotle BBQ Sauce over the shredded pork and stir it to coat the pork. If the pork seems dry or the sauce isn't coating it completely, add in a bit of the reserved cooking juices to moisten it.
Reserve the remaining 1/4 sauce for people who want theirs with extra sauce!

Recipe Notes

*You may use a whole sweetener, such as granulated coconut sugar, however the recipe will no longer be keto or THM-friendly.

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