How To Make Sweet and Spicy Slow-Cooked Barbacoa Pork Recipe
Marinated with brown sugar, cola, chipotle chilies, green chilies, cumin, and spices, this tasty and tender barbacoa pork is slow-cooked to perfection.
Serves:
Ingredients
For the Marinade:
- 2.5lbspork loin roast,all fat trimmed
- salt and pepper
- garlic powder
- 6ozCoke zero
- ¼cupbrown sugar,unpacked
- ¼cupwater
For Step Two:
- 8ozCoke zero
- 6ozsliced green chilies,(1 can)
- 8oztomato sauce
- 1chipotle chile in adobo sauce
- ⅛tspgarlic powder
- ⅛tspcumin
- ⅛tspchipotle chili powder,to taste
- Salt and pepper to taste
- ⅓cupbrown sugar,unpacked
Instructions
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Season pork with salt, pepper, and garlic powder then place in the crockpot.
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Add 6 ounces of coke and ¼ cup of brown sugar. Marinate refrigerated for a few hours or overnight turning meat at least once while marinating.
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Remove crock from the refrigerator. Add water, and cook on High for about 3 to 4 hours or until it shreds easily.
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Remove pork from crock pot and discard any liquid left in the pot. Shred pork with two forks.
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In the crockpot, combine 8 ounces of coke, green chilies, tomato sauce, chipotle chile, garlic powder, cumin, chipotle chili powder, and remaining brown sugar.
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Put shredded pork back in the crockpot and combine with sauce. Adjust salt and pepper to taste. Cover and cook on High for about 1½ hours.
Nutrition
- Calories: 288.69kcal
- Fat: 14.44g
- Saturated Fat: 4.98g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 6.39g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 1.59g
- Carbohydrates: 16.16g
- Fiber: 1.03g
- Sugar: 13.70g
- Protein: 23.25g
- Cholesterol: 71.44mg
- Sodium: 501.95mg
- Calcium: 41.39mg
- Potassium: 573.33mg
- Iron: 1.61mg
- Vitamin A: 61.59µg
- Vitamin C: 48.48mg
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