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
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