Thursday, February 26, 2009

Cafe Rio Pork Recipe

So I LOVE cafe rio's sweet pork barbacoa. I searched the net and found this recipe for it. Josh and I tried it out and it is SO good! We made some lime cilantro rice (it's just 3 cups of cooked rice combined with 1/2 tsp salt, zest of 1 lime, juice of 2 limes, and 1/2 c. cilantro) and put both on corn tortillas. Yum!

3-4 lbs pork roast or pork loin
1/4 teaspoon oregano
1/4 teaspoon cumin
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 onion
2 garlic cloves
water, to cover
Sauce
1 (14 ounce) can enchilada sauce
3/4 cup Coca-Cola or Dr. Pepper cola
1 cup brown sugar
Directions
1)Cut pork in large chunks. Put in large crock pot and add water just to cover. Add seasonings. Cut onion in 4 large pieces, crush garlic and add to water. Cook pork on low all day or on high for 3 to 4 hours, or until tender and pork pulls apart easily. Drain water and remove onions and garlic. Pull pork and return to crock pot.
2)In a separate container mix enchilada sauce, soda and sugar. Add to pork in the crock pot. Cook 1 hour longer.

8 comments:

  1. Looks yummy I will have to try it. I bet my family would love it. Did you go running this mornig?

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  2. sweet! looks like you just volunteered something to cook for us when we come visit! :)

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  3. Yum!!! I love their pork too, so I'm going to make this FOR SURE! Thanks for sharing!

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  4. Sounds so good. We love stuff like this so I will be trying it soon.

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  5. Yummy! I have a Costa Vida recipe that I like using! Sounds pretty similar! You should let me be your taste dummy! :o)

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  6. Hey I hope you read this soon...we've been trying to call you guys but your phones wont take our calls. We might be taking a trip in a couple weeks - tell that freckled beauty husband of yours to call Aaron!!

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  7. Hi Sarah! Saw you on Jess page! I am so loving you for posting this recipe up! Good looking out! Can't beleive how big Gracie is now! Love your blog look...yummy!

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  8. Sarah...you are on my blog...but you haven't updated in FOREVER!!! so it just keeps the top 15 updated blogs... Update then it will move you to the top! :o)

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