Crock Pot Pork with Root Beer Sauce

 

Ingredients

3-4 lbs Pork Butt

1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp fresh cracked pepper

2 tsp vegetable oil

1 yellow onion, peeled and sliced thickly

2 cups Root Beer

2 tsp minced garlic

2 tbl honey

Root Beer Sauce

1/2 tsp root beer extract

3 cups Root Beer

1 bottle Chili Sauce (I used Heinz)

1-2 tsp hot sauce (I used Tabasco)

1 tsp minced garlic

2 tbl Dijon Mustard

Directions

1. Remove pork roast from the packaging and pat dry (this helps with the browning)
2. In a large skillet brown roast on all sides in the 2 tbl vegetable oil, the pan will need to be screaming hot
3. In the meantime, place the sliced onions in the bottom of your crock pot, add the garlic
4. Add the roast and pour enough Root Beer to almost cover the top of your pot roast
5. Cook on low for 7-8 hours, turning the roast about half way thru, when done pour off almost all the cooking juice reserving about 1 cup
6. Shred the meat with two forks and serve with the Root Beer Sauce

Root Beer Sauce

1. In a medium saucepan combine the 3 cups Root Beer, Chili Sauce, Garlic, Hot Sauce, Dijon Mustard and 1 cup of reserved cooking juice from the crock pot (if your roast is still cooking simply a cup worth out of the crock pot), simmer on low for an hour until the sauce reduces by half. Keep tasting and add more hot sauce and Dijon to your liking.