Sweet Barbacoa Pork

In the craving for a bit of Mexican, try this sweet barbacoa pork.  I always have an itching about once every two weeks for some Chipotle; however, I don’t every want to go and waste my well-earned calories on a chain restaurant.  So, I found this lovely slow cooked sweet barbacoa pork recipe from my favorite go to site, Skinnytaste.com.

Although by my definitions, this recipe needs some better explanation in the how to part.  Ergo, here are some more helpful tips to keep in mind when replicating 

this recipe.

1.     Don’t add the water to the marinade!  I got that bit confused because of how step 1 and step 2 ingredients were separated.  For clarification, you add the water to the crock-pot for cooking part 1.

2.     The marinade does go into the crock-pot for cooking part 1.  Another area that I was unsure about.  Most times the marinade is discarded right away, but not this time.

    

3.   Diet coke or coke zero, they are profoundly both the same.  The difference you may wonder, as my mom and I did, is the advertising approach.  They created coke zero to target males because diet apparently sounds like a women’s drink.  LAME! So…FYI you can use either diet or coke zero.

4.     The chipotle chili in adobe sauce has a great smoky, barbeque flavor.  We doubled the amount in ours to 2 because we love the flavors.  The rest of the chilies can be frozen and used in other dishes like a black bean soup.

5.     We used two loin roasts because finding 2.5 lbs can be rather difficult in the meat department of a grocery store.

6.     We cooked ours for 3 hours because we only had two so they were smaller.  We also only used low for the cooking part 2

7.     During the shredding part of the pork, go ahead and be bad try a taste to tease your taste buds. J

Another great addition to this recipe is that it slow cooks in a crock-pot.  Which means that you can leave it on and go about your day without having to constantly be watching it on the stove to prevent a fire.  Oh and did I mention that my mom has not 1…but 2!!!!! Crock-pots.  That’s right! So, looks like one will be going back up with me to school. SCORE!

Oh baby was this recipe a winner.  It was juicy and delicious with little effort other than watching it tease you.  Add the toppings you’d like.  We chose from grilled corn, tomatoes, black beans, cheese, and more. 

Be sure to leave a comment below on how you enjoyed your slow cooked sweet barbacoa pork.  Check back next Wednesday from another succulent recipe from the cooking bug. J