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BBQ Pork Sloppy Joes

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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 -

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.

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