Week 4- Meal #2 Slow Cooked Sweet Barbacoa Pork Butt w Cilantro Lime Rice and Black Beans

If you liked the Balsamic Pulled Pork you should like this one even better.  It is a little on the sweet side and you can make it as spicy as you like so tiny people tend to gobble it up by the handful.  It is delicious over Cilantro Lime Rice and black beans.


Ingredients:

For the Marinade:

• 2.5 lbs pork butt roast (you can trim it but it makes the meat so much juicier left on)
• salt and pepper
• garlic powder
• 6 oz Coke or Coke Zero (or Dr. Pepper)
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 1/4 cup water

Step 2

• 8 oz Coke or Coke Zero (or Dr. Pepper)
• 6 oz can green chilies
• 8 oz tomato sauce
• 1 chipotle chile in adobo sauce (freeze the rest for next time)
• 1/8 tsp garlic powder
• 1/8 tsp cumin
• 1/8 tsp chili powder (to taste)
• salt and pepper to taste
• 1/3 cup brown sugar (unpacked)

Directions:

Season pork with salt, pepper and garlic powder and place in the crock pot. Add 6 oz of coke and 1/4 cup of brown sugar. Marinate refrigerated for a few hours or overnight turning meat at least once while marinating.

Remove crock from refrigerator, add water, and cook on low about 4-5 hours (or until it shreds easily). Remove pork from crock pot and discard any liquid left in the pot. Shred pork with two forks.

Step two: In the crock pot, combine 8 oz coke, green chilies, tomato sauce, chipotle chile, garlic powder, cumin, chili powder and remaining brown sugar.  NOTE:  Adjust the chilies to your liking.  You can add more but you can't add less!! 

Put shredded pork back in the crock pot and combine with sauce. Adjust salt and pepper to taste, cover and cook on high 1-2 hours more.
 


BLACK BEANS
Couple of options.  You can always open a can and just add some onion, cumin, dash of lime juice and salt/pepper to taste.  Let them simmer while the rice cooks and they are certainly pretty good.  If you want to get all fancy pants with your black beans then use this recipe.  You will not be sorry you put in the extra time.  They.Are.So.Good.  I am a black bean snob.  Hey, if you grow up in central Florida you can be.  These black beans would win any contest.  If you make them invite me over.