Cafe Rio Pork Burritos

Cafe Rio Pork Burritos

Pork Loin or Pork Roast

cook in crock pot on low for 7-9 hours in sauce until it pulls apart.

Sauce

18 oz Coca-Cola Classic (do not use diet or generic)

1 C. sugar

1 7 oz. can chipotle chilies in ADOBO sauce (since you use the sauce and not the chilies, it is important that you get exactly that.)

1 tsp. dry ground mustard - heaping

1 tsp. minced garlic

Remove chilies from the can of adobo sauce. Rinse chilies with the coke to get all the sauce. Discard. Also rinse can with coke to get all remaining sauce. Put all ingredients in blender. Blend, pour over pork in crock pot. After cooking, pull apart with forks into bite size piececs. Leave in sauce while you serve it.

** I also added a few tablespoons of brown sugar, a tablespoon at a time, near the end of the pork being finished. Taste test for sweetness. :) **

** I bought the green salsa that had tomatillos and serano peppers in the ingredients instead and it tasted just like the Cafe Rio mild sauce.**

Cilantro-Lime Rice

1 C. uncooked rice

1 tsp. butter or margarine

2 cloves garlic, minced

1 can (15 oz.) chicken broth (two chicken bouillon cubes with 2 cups of hot water)

1 1/4 C. water

2 Tbs. lime juice

2 tsp. granulated sugar

In a saucepan combine rice, butter, garlic, lime zest, chicken broth, and water. Bring to a biol. Cover, lower heat, and cook 15-20 min, stirring occasionally, until rice is tender. Remove from heat. In a small bowl combine lime juice, sugar, & cilantro. Pour over hot cooked rice.

Black Beans

1 can black beans with jalapenos and lime juice, rinsed and drained

1 1/3 C. tomato juice

2 cloves garlic, minced

1 tsp. ground cumin

2 Tbl. olive oil

1 1/2 tsp. salt

In a non-stick skillet, cook garlic and cumin in olive oil over medium heat until you can smell it. Add beans, tomato juice & salt. Continually stir until heated through.

Don't forget the mozzarella cheese. Put it all together in a tortilla and broil it in the oven until the cheese melts!

(I modified this recipe from Kaitlyn Lind, a good friend of mine.)

These burritos are so tasty! I haven't gotten tired of eating leftovers for 3 days and could continue to eat more.