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