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I like this recipe for several reasons.  it’s a great weeknight meal, it’s easily adaptable for your palate – from sweet to spicy and it can be adapted to serve from a small to large group.

Ingredients:

3 pounds pork butt or shoulder

3/4 cup coca cola

2 tablespoons garlic, minced

3/4 cup ketchup

1 cup brown sugar

2 limes, juiced

1 cup tomatillo sauce (see recipe below)

1/2 onion, sliced (optional)

Tomatillo sauce ingredients:

 

1 large jalapeno pepper, seeded and deveined (if you like it spicy, leave seeds and veins in and increase to 2 peppers)

2 cloves garlic

1 tomatillo

small bunch of cilantro

1 lime, juiced

1 cup milk

1 cup mayonnaise

1 package Hidden Valley ranch salad dressing mix

 

 

Directions:

Place the pork roast in slow cooker (crockpot) and top with garlic and coca cola.  Cover and cook on low for 7 – 8 hours or high for 4 – 5 hours or until it can be shredded with a fork. 

Blend all ingredients except mayonnaise in blender and then whisk in mayonnaise.  Reserve 1 cup for pork roast.  Chill the rest and serve with roast.

When pork is tender, remove and shred, return meat to crockpot and mix in the ketchup, brown sugar, lime juice and tomatillo sauce.  Stir and cover and simmer on low until heated through

I serve on tortillas with cheese, .onions, avocados as sides (like you do with tacos).  Put the pork roast  in the crockpot before work with garlic and coke, set timer, return from work, 30 – 45 minutes and dinner is served.