Barbacoa, A Love Story

Ingredients

• 2 tbsp olive oil
• extra virgin
• 4 lb pork loin
• center cut
• 2 large white onions
• thinly sliced
• 1 poblano pepper
• thinly sliced
• 2 medium bell peppers
• thinly sliced
• 3 tbsp minced garlic
• 1 can 4 oz Chipotle peppers
• 4 Chipotle peppers
• according to desired heat
• 2 tbsp sauce from Chipotle peppers
• 2 cup beef stock
• 2 juiced limes
• I only had lemons on hand today
• 1 can fire roasted tomatoes
• drained
• 1 cup Ginger ale ( chicken broth)
• 1 salt
• only after shredded

Instructions

1. Collect all ingredients
2. Heat oil in pan on med/high.
3. Brown pork loin on all sides.
4. Put your pork in the crock pot
5. In the same pan with all the porky goodness, sautee your onions
6. In your blender add half your onion, all of the garlic, and Chipotle peppers.
7. I just add the entire can/jar, we like heat
8. Blend those babies up
9. Pour in with your pork.
10. Drain the tomatoes, dump into the blender.
11. Squeeze the heck out of your limes/lemons into the blender.
12. Take out seeds if they sneak in.
13. A thinner sauce than earlier.
14. Pour it in with the pork and the Chipotle sauce
15. Add beef broth
16. Add ginger ale or chicken broth, I like ginger ale
17. Cook on high for 5 hrs
18. Remove when fork tender
19. Shred that beast apart like so
20. Return to juices in crock pot
21. While you wait sautee peppers and onions.
22. Use some of the pork juice to sweat them (or serve raw, they are beautiful either way)
23. Remove about 2 cups liquid, but reserve for storing and reheating leftovers (pain in the butt, but you'll thank me)
24. You're ready to serve up some beautiful barbacoa pork