Making PERFECT St. Louis Style BBQ Pork Steaks
This delicious grilled St. Louis Pork Steak recipe is reverse seared and then basted with homemade BBQ sauce and charred to perfection. If you’ve never had these before, you will be blown away at how delicious they are.
Pork steaks are an absolute St. Louis BBQ staple. They are thin-cut pork butt or shoulder steaks grilled until done and basted with a tomato-vinegar BBQ sauce. The most common cooking method would be to quickly char them on both sides and then slow cook them for a few hours in BBQ sauce.
While you can cook these using any procedure you’d like, I believe reverse searing them makes them the most tender and juicy without the risk of overcooking. Check out my video below to see how I made them.
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Ingredients for this recipe:
For the Pork Steaks:
• 8 ½” to 1” thick cut pork steaks
• 4 teaspoons onion granules
• 4 teaspoons garlic granules
• 4 teaspoons dry oregano
• sea salt and pepper to taste
• 2 cups BBQ sauce
For the Optional Homemade BBQ Sauce
• 28 ounce can of tomato puree
• 2/3 cup white distilled vinegar
• ¼ cup light or dark corn syrup
• ¼ packed light brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
• 1 tablespoon dark molasses
• Juice of 1 lemon
• ½ cup orange juice
• ¼ cup soy sauce
• 4-6 dashes of hot sauce
• 2 ½ teaspoons sea salt
• 1 teaspoon black pepper
• 2 teaspoons onion granules
• 2 teaspoons garlic granules
• 3 tablespoons tomato paste
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#MIZ
I love these and I love your method! A great value for the money too!
Love it! Moved from STL to Austin after a dozen years there in 2015…have introduced all our friends to gooey butter cake, toasted ravs, and pork steaks. Video was great all but the Mizzou action…still a Jayhawk😀.
Zou!
So glad to see Stl represented. Parts of the country never heard of pork steaks. I would cheat in the winter and pan fry the steals nice and dark and simmer for half hour-45 min with Mauls sewer and Smokey. You could cut them with a fork and didn't have to go out in the weather.
Yum perfect take on STL pork steaks
I respect the effort you put into making this video, but these are not authentic STL style pork steaks.
You have to use the rendered juices from the pork steaks on the grill in the bbq sauce, then make a proper bbq reduction sauce
I remember Mizzou beating Nebraska. Such a great memory.
ZOU!
Have to cook 20 of these, I have my own shake, great video
I love pork steaks. They are easy to find and very easy to cook.
MIZ
Dont eat pork or sell it
Love how you are adding in fun memories on your videos. Haven’t seen these pork steaks in the grocery store in a long time. Going to look for them next time I go. This looks so yummy. Thank you!
Another great recipe! Go Mizzou!
That’s one way to do it. Growing up in South St.Louis I watched many fights start over how to cook pork steaks. The cut is 5/8” that’s it. Salt and pepper that’s it. Anything other than Maull’s is sacrilegious. That sauce you just Did would get you chased down Gravois Rd. Mom cooked them in the oven. Dads and uncles grilled them. The ultimate legal twist is to throw them in a deep pan after grilling them half way. Cover them with MAULL,S bbq sauce and three cans of Budweiser. Let them cook about four hours until the fat is melted and the liquid reduced. Now you have something. They make a killer cold sandwich the next day. .
I love how the emphasis on reminding your viewers how important the fundamental techniques are. They really do open the doors to the art of cooking. Appreciate your efforts on these. Best!
St Louis resident here. My wife went to Mizzou and my daughter just completed her first year. Can you recommend any restaurants in Columbia you like to hit when you go back?
160 is a bit high, the new pork temp is 145 I thought…
I haven’t watched the video yet, but man that thumbnail has got me interested 😆
Fantastic content! This video brings the process alive and makes it easily understandable. Your library is huge, and you have become a great online resource. Thanks for creating!