This barbecued pork loin recipe makes for the best sandwiches. It features rotisserie pork with a homemade sauce, roasted on a spit for the maximum smoky flavor.
How To Make Barbecued Pork Loin
Ingredients
- 8 lb pork loin roast
- Salt and pepper, to taste
For Barbecue Sauce:
- 1/2 cup onion, chopped
- 1 garlic clove, minced or 1/8 tsp. instant minced garlic
- 2 tbsp oil , or shortening
- 1 cup ketchup
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/4 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp thyme leaf, crushed
- 3 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
- 2 tsp mustard, prepared
- 1 lemon, thinly sliced
- 1 dash tabasco sauce
Instructions
Making the sauce
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Sauté onion and garlic in oil in a frypan until tender. Add remaining ingredients.
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Bring to a boil and simmer for 5 minutes. Set aside.
Cooking the meat
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Sprinkle meat with salt and pepper.
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Run a spit through the center of the meat, making sure it is evenly balanced.
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Secure to a rotisserie with a heavy cord. Insert a meat thermometer so the tip is in the center of the roast but not resting in fat, bone or on the rod.
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Arrange coals for roasting meat and roast over hot coals for 2 hours until the meat thermometer registers 140°F.
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Continue roasting, brushing with barbecue sauce every 20 minutes until the roast reaches an internal temperature of 170°F, about 1.5 to 2 hours longer.
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Plate the roast and serve.
Nutrition
- Sugar: 7g
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- Calcium: 23mg
- Calories: 352kcal
- Carbohydrates: 9g
- Cholesterol: 143mg
- Fat: 11g
- Fiber: 1g
- Iron: 2mg
- Potassium: 942mg
- Protein: 51g
- Saturated Fat: 3g
- Sodium: 433mg
- Vitamin A: 77IU
- Vitamin C: 5mg
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