Home BBQ Pork Sloppy Joes
Ingredients
- Potatoes - 2
- Red Onions - 1
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Lime - 1
- Bread - 2
- Pork - 1 lb
- Barbeque Sauce -
- Hotsauce -
- Tomato Ketchup -
- Sugar -
- Vegetable Oil -
- Salt -
- Pepper -
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Instructions
- 1 Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
- Wash and dry all produce.
- Cut sweet potatoes into ½-inch-thick wedges.
- Toss on a baking sheet with a drizzle of oil, salt, and pepper.
- Roast until browned and tender, 20-25 minutes.
- 2 Meanwhile, halve and peel onion.
- Slice as thinly as possible until you have ¼ cup (½ cup for 4 servings); finely chop remaining onion.
- Peel and finely chop garlic.
- Halve lime; squeeze juice into a small bowl.
- Halve buns.
- Add 1 TBSP butter (2 TBSP for 4) to a separate small microwave-safe bowl; microwave until melted, 30 seconds.
- Brush onto cut sides of buns.
- 3 To bowl with lime juice, add sliced onion, ¼ tsp sugar (½ tsp for 4 servings), and a pinch of salt.
- Stir to combine; set aside to quick-pickle.
- 4 Heat a drizzle of oil in a large pan over medium-high heat.
- Add chopped onion and season with salt and pepper.
- Cook, stirring, until softened, 4-5 minutes.
- Add garlic and cook until fragrant, 30 seconds more.
- Add pork and season with salt and pepper.
- Cook, breaking up meat into pieces, until browned and cooked through, 4-6 minutes.
- 5 While pork cooks, in a third small bowl, combine BBQ sauce, pickling liquid from onion, 3 TBSP ketchup (6 TBSP for 4 servings), ½ tsp sugar (1 tsp for 4), and ¼ cup water (⅓ cup for 4).
- Once pork is cooked through, add BBQ sauce mixture to pan.
- Cook, stirring, until sauce is thickened, 2-3 minutes.
- Taste and season with salt and pepper.
- 6 Meanwhile, toast buns in oven or toaster oven until golden, 3-5 minutes.
- Divide toasted buns between plates and fill with as much BBQ pork as you’d like.
- Top with pickled onion and hot sauce.
- Serve with sweet potato wedges on the side.