Thursday, October 2, 2008

Cafe' Rios Sweet Pork Salad

I made that! I love all of the different colors all over my plate. There is a restaurant in Utah that makes these amazing salads. If you live outside of Utah, it would be the equivalent of Chipotle', but in my opinion better. Minus the romaine lettuce, I made everything else on the plate. I made the sweet pork in my crockpot, I made the guacamole, pico de gallo, tomatilla salad dressing and the tortilla strips that are on top. I even made Cilantro-Lime rice and black beans. I invited my neighbors across the street over for the feast and still had enough left overs for two more days. I went to a church cooking activity and learned how to make it. I am sharing the recipes because it was easy to do and amazing.

Sweet Pulled Pork
3 lbs pork roast 7-8 oz. pineapple salsa (half the jar, I found it in the salsa isle of store)
1 C. brown sugar 6 oz. of Dr. Pepper or Coke (not diet)

Put pork roast in crockpot on high and fill crockpot half full of water. Cook for 3-4 hours. Remove all but 1/2 inch water in bottom of crockpot and cut roast in thirds. Add the remaining three ingredients and cook for 1-2 more hours. Shred the roast using two forks and heat for an additional 20-30 minutes.

Tomatilla-Cilantro Dressing
1 packet buttermilk ranch 1-2 tomatillas
1 C. buttermilk 1 clove garlic
1 C. Mayo 1 jalepeno with no seeds
1/2 bunch cilantro (optional) 1/2 t. lime juice

Blend in blender until creamy.

If you would like any other recipes for this, just let me know. Enjoy! Ole'!

1 comment:

Lisa M said...

I'm so glad you posted this. I was meaning to ask you to send it to me.
Lisa