Slow Cooked Sweet Barbacoa Pork

Sweet and spicy slow cooked barbacao pork sweetened with brown sugar, cola, chipotle chilies, green chilies, cumin and spices. Delicious over cilantro lime rice and black beans.

⏱ 425 min 🔨 Prep 5min 🔥 Cook 300min 📊 Hard 🍽 10 servings 👁 7
Slow Cooked Sweet Barbacoa Pork

Ingredients

10 servings

Instructions

  1. Season pork with salt, pepper and garlic powder and place in the crock pot.
  2. Add 3/4 cup of cola and 1/4 cup of brown sugar. Marinate refrigerated for a few hours or overnight turning meat at least once while marinating.
  3. Remove crock from refrigerator, add water, and cook on high for about 4 hours or low 8 hours (or until it shreds easily).
  4. Remove pork from crock pot and discard all the liquid left in the pot. Shred pork with two forks.
  5. In the crock pot, combine remaining 1 cup cola, green chilies, tomato sauce, chipotle chile, garlic powder, cumin, chipotle chili powder and remaining brown 1/3 cup brown sugar.
  6. Put shredded pork back in the crock pot and combine with sauce. Adjust salt and pepper to taste, cover and cook on high 1-1/2 hours more.
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Nutrition per serving

202kcal

💰 Cost Estimate

Total Ingredients
$2790.00
Per Serving
$279.00/serving
🏠 Savings
~$5580.00 vs buying!
📋 Price Breakdown (79% ingredients detected)
IngredientAmountSubtotal
pork loin roast 2.5 lbs $275.00
salt and pepper - -
garlic powder - -
Cola soda 0.25 cups $9.00
brown sugar 0.25 cup $7.00
water 0.25 cup -
can sliced green chilies 6 oz $2111.00
can tomato sauce 8 oz $270.00
chipotle chile in adobo sauce 1 whole $101.00
garlic powder 0.125 tsp $1.00
cumin 0.125 tsp $4.00
chipotle chili powder 0.125 tsp $2.00
kosher salt - -
brown sugar 0.3333333333333333 cup $10.00

*Estimated market prices, may vary by region

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Slow Cooked Sweet Barbacoa Pork

Ingredients:
  • 2.5 lbs pork loin roast (trimmed)
  • salt and pepper
  • garlic powder
  • 1 3/4 cups Cola soda (divided (Olipop, Poppi, and Slice Cola have less sugar))
  • 1/4 cup brown sugar (unpacked)
  • 1/4 cup water
  • 6 oz can sliced green chilies
  • 8 oz can tomato sauce
  • 1 whole chipotle chile in adobo sauce (from a can, or 1 tablespoon)
  • 1/8 tsp garlic powder
  • 1/8 tsp cumin
  • 1/8 tsp chipotle chili powder (to taste)
  • kosher salt (and black pepper, to taste)
  • 1/3 cup brown sugar (unpacked)

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