I am a homeschooling mom of 4. I live for EASY meals. And tonight's dinner is about as easy as it can get.
BBQ BAKED POTATOES
Ingredients:
1 pork butt
1 bottle BBQ sauce (I used Trader Joe's Kansas City BBQ sauce)
Potatoes
olive oil
sea salt
Directions:
Throw that pork butt in the crock pot and pour that bottle off BBQ sauce over top. I've found a few different bottled BBQ sauces that we can use, but you can obviously make your own as well. Here is a great allergy-free BBQ sauce recipe. I cook mine on low for 6-8 hours or on high for 3-4 hours (today I cooked it on high for about 4 hours). When it's done, shred it with 2 forks and mix it in with the extra sauce and let it warm until ready to eat.
I bake my potatoes by smothering them in olive oil and sea salt, poking holes in them with a fork, and baking them at 350* for one hour.
What you add to your potato will depend on your own allergies/tastes. Rapunzel eats hers with just the pork and a little Greek Coconut Plain Yogurt (it's a good sub for sour cream). The rest of us might put some butter, sour cream, shredded cheese and/or chives on ours. But they're good with just the meat and potatoes too!
Sorry for this stupid question coming from a vegetarian, but is "pork butt" really a cut of meat? That's so crazy to me. Lol!
ReplyDeleteHaha Nicole, yes it actually is! It's from the shoulder area of the pig. http://localfoods.about.com/od/porkrecipes/qt/What-Is-Pork-Butt.htm
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