Earlier today, we made a pork roast with root beer. We bought a fatty shoulder butt roast from Target. WE USUALLY DO A PORK LOIN, AND WE SHOULD HAVE STUCK WITH THAT - THIS BUTT ROAST WAS SO FATTY THAT IT WAS A LOT OF WORK. Oh well. Now we know.
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This butt roast was $4 off because it was about to expire. So a 4.5 lb roast for $7. |
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In the crockpot. |
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Covered in seasoning salt and an onion. About to be doused in root beer. |
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In goes a bottle of root beer. |
I cooked it on low for about 2 hours, and then on high for about 2 more hours. So 4 hours later, it looked like this:
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Ugly, fatty, but tasty! |
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Shredded pork back in the crock, fat chucks in upper left of jelly roll pan, shredding meat in the middle, and juices with onions in the bowl to the right. |
The fatty roast was a pain to shred. I put all the shredded pork back in the crock, cut up about 3/4 of the onions and added them, and poured in 1/2 to 3/4 of the liquid. I also added some salt and a little more seasoning. After 30 more minutes on low, it was juicy and flavorful:
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Finished root beer pork roast! |
Like I mentioned at the top, we should have done this with a loin as we've done in the past. This shoulder butt roast was a bit too fatty and much more work. In the past we made a
loin much like this with root beer, and once we made
BBQ root beer pulled pork that was tasty too.
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