Root Beer Pulled Pork
I don’t like root beer. At all. I’ve tried a similar pork recipe with regular cola, so I pretty much knew going into it that I probably wouldn’t be able to taste the root beer in the finished product. I was right, thankfully. This is a great crock pot recipe using a pork roast, root beer, and other ingredients to make a delicious bbq sauce. We used this to make pulled pork sandwiches, but it would have been equally as good on tortillas.
Root Beer Pulled Pork
Author/Source:
Heather @ Onceamonthmom.com, adapted from 365 Days of Slow Cooking
Ingredients:
- 2 pound pork roast
- 0.5 teaspoon garlic salt
- 0.5 teaspoon black pepper
- 1.25 cups onion, sliced
- 0.75 cups root beer
- 0.25 cups ketchup
- 2 Tablespoon tomato paste
- 0.5 Tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 Tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1 Tablespoon honey
- 1 Tablespoon flour
Directions:
Sprinkle roast with garlic salt and pepper. Place in slow cooker. Mix all other ingredients together and pour over roast in crock pot. Cook on low for 8-9 hours. Remove roast and onions. Shred pork and discard onions. Add roast back to sauce in crock pot. Serve with buns and slaw if desired.
Freezing Directions:
Place all ingredients into freezer bag(s). Label and freeze. To serve: thaw in fridge. Place in crockpot and cook on low for 8-9 hours.
Servings: 4
**conversion chart image provided by Erik Spiekermann
Any idea if you can make this with diet rootbeer? I only have diet in the house, but would love to try it sometime.
Sure you can.
please email response if possible…I am always confused by this…do I put ingredients in bag assembled but raw to freeze or do i cook first, cool and assemble and then cook in crockpot again?
Yes, you put them in the bag assembled but raw. Then freeze, thaw, dump in crockpot! That’s it!
Thanks for the clarification. I had assumed that you cooked the pork and put the pulled pork with sauce into the freezer. That way – nothing to cook when you pulled it out!
What would be a whole foods substitute for the root beer?
Christine you could find a more natural root beer such as Boylan’s, Zevia or Blue Sky. Look for as little ingredients as possible.