See this meal?
That there took about 20 minutes. I kid you not. And pictures never do justice to food...this stuff was A to the MAZING!! It was basically my version of hawaiian pork but without all the grease creating a pool for the rest of your food to bath in. Hawaiian food makes me feel sick but Kiel loves it so I made this as a greaseless alternative and the taste was perty darn perfect. And yes, it took a total of 20 minutes. OK! Here's how this puppys done.
You need:
approximately 3 LBS pork roast (I just got the cheapo one and it couldn't have been tastier)
a can of root beer or pepsi (I used pepsi since thats what we had on hand)
Salt n Pepper
Put a skillet on the stove and turn the temp to med-high. Pour a few tsp of oil and get it nice and hot. Then place your roast in the oil and sear the sides of the roast. This should just take a few minutes. You don't want to cook the meat, just turn the sides nice and brown quickly...it holds in the flavor and juices since you will be crock potting (is that a word?) this.
Put the seared roast into your crock pot and turn it on low. Pour the can of soda over the meat and cover. Now go to church or work or something for about 6 hours while the roast cooks. Take the roast out and shred it. Place the meat back in the liquid and cook for one more hour. The liquid should be gone at this point leaving very moist shredded pork. Add salt and pepper to flavor. Because Hawaiian pork is generally pretty salty, I added quite a bit of salt...I don't measure (sorry folks) but it was like a tsp...just taste it. If it needs more, add more.
Preheat oven to 400. Rough chop an onion (or two) and some red potatoes. Place them on a cookie sheet and drizzle olive oil, oregano, rosemary, salt and pepper over them and stir them a little so they are evenly coated. Place cookie sheet in oven and these are done when your rice is done...about 20 minutes.
Put your rice on to cook. I cook mine on the stove but if you're a rice-cooker person then whatev. It takes about 20 mins either way.
20 minutes later everything is done cooking and you have a ridiculously easy, fast, delicious- as in seriously delicious- hot meal.
Oh, and there was still some left over so the next day I warmed it up and stuck it on a bun and added some bbq sauce. Ohminagoota. It was just as good as it was the night before. So make some extra.
Note to self: measure ingredients in the future for blogging purposes...
