Green Chile Stew

Thom loves green chile stew, and I have been looking for years for a good recipe for it.  I'm pretty sure I don't need to look anymore, this was fantastic!!!

Green Chile Stew
Recipe adapted from Shockingly Delicious

Ingredients:

2 tbsp. olive oil

2 lbs. boneless pork, cut into 1-inch cubes

1/2 cup chopped onion

1 clove garlic, minced

1/4 cup flour

1 15 oz. can fire roasted chopped tomatoes

2  7-oz. cans chopped green chilies

1 fresh jalapeno chopped

1/2 tsp. salt

1/2 tsp. freshly ground black pepper

1/2 tsp. sugar

1 cup chicken or beef broth

 

Directions:

 

Heat olive oil in dutch oven.  Add pork and cook until browned.  Add onion and garlic and stir with the meat.  Add the flour and stir for 2 minutes.  Add the tomatoes, green chiles, jalapenos, salt, pepper and sugar; mix all ingredients together.  Add the broth.  Lower heat, then cover pot and simmer for 1 or 2 hours, until meat is tender. 

 

Sweet Pork

My kids love it when I make this Sweet Pork. They know it means they can make whatever they want with it; one had nachos, another a burrito, a couple had stuffed quesadillas and I made myself a big salad with it! They love having a choice, and frankly, I just love the sweet pork!! I've tried a lot of recipes for it and this recipe is what I've ended up with after mixing a whole bunch of recipe ideas together.





Sweet Pork




Ingredients:


4 lb. pork roast
2 tbsp. canola oil
32 oz. can Macayo's enchilada sauce
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 cup Coke

Directions:

Heat the oil in large skillet over medium heat. Sear the roast on all sides until golden brown.

Combine the enchilada sauce, brown sugar and Coke in a slow cooker. Add the pork, cover and cook on low for 7 hours (I've done it 4 hours on high too).

Remove the pork and shred. Put back in the slow cooker and stir to combine with the sauce.

Serve on salads, burritos, nachos, quesadillas, tacos, whatever you can think up!!!

Sweet Pork

I have tried a lot of recipes and finally found one that I like, that tastes like the sweet pork at Costa Vida (and that other place). This is really good, it makes me forget how much I detest pork!!! This is a combination of a few recipes I've found online.


Ingredients:

2 pounds pork
3 1/2 cups of Coke (or Dr. Pepper I guess)(NOT DIET)
1 1/4 cup brown sugar
garlic powder
1 can green chiles
1/4 cup water
1 can enchilada sauce (has to be Macayo's, all the other ones are gross)



Put the pork in a ziploc bag to marinade. Add 2 cups of Coke and 1/4 cup of brown sugar. Marinade for at least 2 hours or overnight.

Drain marinade and put pork, 3/4 cup Coke, water in crockpot. Put garlic powder over the meat. Cook on high for 3-4 hours or low for 8ish hours. Remove pork from crock pot and drain any liquid left in the pot. Shred the pork then put it back in the crockpot.

Blend 3/4 cup Coke, green chiles, enchilada sauce and 1 cup brown sugar until smooth. Pour over meat in crockpot, mix it all up and cook for another hour or two.

You can use this for a salad, burritos, quesadillas, or NATCHOS! Yum!!!

Cranberry Pork Roast

I made this for dinner yesterday, YUM YUM YUM!!

Ingredients:

1 pork loin roast (2 ½ - 3 lbs.)(can be boneless or not)
1 can (16 oz.) jellied whole cranberries
1 cup dried cranberries
½ cup sugar
½ cup cranberry juice or ½ cup orange juice
1 tsp. dry mustard
¼ tsp. ground cloves
2 tbsp. cornstarch
2 tbsp. cold water

Place pork roast bone side down in a slow cooker/crock pot. In a medium bowl, mash cranberry sauce. Stir in sugar, cranberry juice, orange juice, mustard and cloves. Pour over roast. Cover and cook on high for 6-8 hours. If boneless, cook on low for 6-8 hours. Cook until meat is tender. Remove roast and keep warm. Skim fat from juices; measure 2 cups, adding water if necessary and pour into a saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium heat. Combine cornstarch and cold water to make a paste; stir into gravy. Cook and stir until thickened. Season with salt. Serve with sliced pork.

Pork Chalupas

Ingredients:

3-4 lbs. pork loin roast
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 cans pinto beans
1 tbsp. cumin
2 tbsp. chili powder
1 tbsp. oregano
1 can diced green chiles
1 tsp. salt

Cook on low all day in slow cooker. Serve over chips or in a burrito or like tacos. Or do like I did and have all three. What? Do you have a problem with that?