Dust off your Crock Pot for a Pulled Pork Sandwich!
Ok…maybe some people use a crock pot more often than I do, so if you do, please excuse the dusting comment! 🙂
Have you ever heard of Sarsaparilla? I bet if you think back to cartoons (ok…dating myself here) with Yosemite Sam and Bugs Bunny, one of them was sipping on a Sarsaparilla when they bellied up to the bar at the saloon before the big shoot out. In case you don’t know, Sarsaparilla was the original root beer. Anyway, when we were visiting my Grandma, Runnings General Store is the ONLY place I’ve ever been able to find the original Sioux City Sarsaparilla.
Runnings Hardware Store
I nabbed several bottles! We drank a few, but I brought 3 bottles home. That is the best root beer I’ve ever had and I wanted to think of something to make with it. After putting some thought and thinking of flavors….I decided on pulled pork. And boy howdy, is this ever good!
One delicious sandwich!
It was so simple! I used a 3 lb. boneless pork shoulder roast, onion, garlic, barbecue sauce, sweet chili sauce and root beer. Oh and some salt & pepper. I tossed everything into the slow cooker, set it on high and walked away. Six hours later, I came back and it was pork perfection!
One more view.
I pulled the roast out of the crock pot (let me tell you, it fell apart it was so tender) and removed most of the fat and discarded it. I took the remaining juice and put it in a small sauce pan on the stove on medium high heat and reduced it down by half. That took about 10 minutes. Then I put the meat back in the sauce – it was soooo juicy and delicious!
Slow Cooker Pulled Pork Sandwich
I served the pulled pork on chewy ciabatta rolls, topped with a load of sweet pickles. The pickles were great because they cut thru the richness of the meat. I think they are a must have for this dish!
For the complete recipe for Slow Cooker Pulled Pork Sandwich, please click here!
Wow! Root beer! You never cease to amaze me! I’m totally going to try things like this – I wish I could get that root beer!
It’s soooo good, I remember going to the drive in at A&W when I was a kid and the root beer being so frothy and delicious – that’s what this is like!
I love a good Crock Pot recipe, and yours sounds delicious with root beer ! I don’t use my Crock Pot nearly enough as I should! I’m always so pleased with the slow cooked method; juicy and tender!
Yup, me too! In fact Culinary Ginger posted another good one just this morning. Check this out – http://www.culinaryginger.com/2014/08/crockpot-mexican-shredded-chicken.html
I love pulled pork. One of my most favorite things. I also love sarsaparilla. I grew up drinking Sioux City in a glass bottle. The last one I had was just a few years ago. I’m going to have to give this a try soon.
Wonderful – so you know what a score I made buying that root beer! So fun, good family memories!