A couple of weeks ago, Mike and
I had some very special guests over for dinner.
Almost 2 years ago, my best friend married the love of her life, a man
she met in Romania. They met on a
mission trip nearly 10 years ago and dated long distance. Then, in 2009, he was granted a visa so he
could come here and they could get married.
I’m ecstatic for my friend of course, but her husband moved a long way
from his family. After a lot of
planning, his parents and brother were able to come here for a 3 week
visit. I’ve spent time with this family
during my trips to Romania, so I was thrilled that they would be visiting our
home. I wanted to make a meal that we
would all enjoy, but it needed to be something that required a small amount of
work because I had to work the day they were coming over.
When cooking for a crowd, one
of the easiest recipes I can think of to serve is pulled pork. The hands-on
time is minimal and if you use your crock pot, the meat can cook while you’re
at work or preparing other aspects of the meal.
Of course, the delicious aroma of the pork filling your kitchen is an
added bonus.
I love mangoes so when I saw
a recipe for mango BBQ sauce, I knew I had to try it. The mango flavor is subtle, but just
enough. I served the pulled pork on
homemade cheese buns (look for that recipe on Wednesday!) Everyone really enjoyed the meal. We had plenty of leftovers that Mike and I
have enjoyed for other meals. My friend
who watched Champ last weekend declared the pulled pork “awesome”—I’d have to
agree with her!
16-20 servings
Ingredients:
4lb pork loin
8 ounces Pepsi
2 mangoes, peeled and diced, pits reserved
1 bottle BBQ sauce (original flavor)
1. Place pork loin and mango pits in your crock pot.
2. Pour Pepsi over the pork.
3. Cook pork on low for 7-8 hours.
4. While the pork is cooking, puree the diced mangoes.
5. In a bowl, combine puree mangoes and BBQ sauce.
6. When the pork is completely cooked, shred it with 2 forks.
7. Pour mango BBQ sauce over the shredded pork and continue cooking in the crock pot for 30 more minutes.
Serve warm pork on buns.
Inspired by: Little Kitchen Big Flavors
Love the addition of mango in this! That is actually what made me click on your thumbnail.
ReplyDeleteJust pinned this to make later, except we will probably use Coke instead of Pepsi. ;)
Stopping over from Mix It Up Monday...
This looks delicious with the mango! I love homemade bbq sandwiches! I may have to try this out soon. :)
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Leslie
This sounds so good! I bet that mango addition was fabulous! Pinning :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing this at Mom's Test Meal Mondays!
Wow,
ReplyDeleteThis sounds delicious! I love pulled pork and I can't wait to try this recipe. We love mango's. Thank you so much for linking up to Creative Thursday last week. I can’t wait to see what you link up this week. I wouldn’t be able to do these wonderful parties without your participation. Have a wonderful week.
Michelle
This looks very good! I just made pulled pork last night except it was in the oven, I let it sit overnight in the fridge with a spice rub on it and after baking I added BBQ sauce.
ReplyDeletejust made this, came out so good! thanks for sharing!
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