Ingredients

The following ingredients have 4 Servings
  • 4 lbs boneless pork roast
  • 12 oz root beer
  • 1 large sweet onion (cut into large chunky pieces)
  • 1 cup dark brown sugar (divided)
  • 1 pinch pepper
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 3 tbsp minced garlic
  • 1 1/2 cups barbecue sauce (more or less, to taste)
  • 12 buns

Instruction

  • Place the roast in the slow cooker.
  • Pour the root beer over top.
  • Toss in onion chunks, spread them around so they flavour well.
  • Drop half of the brown sugar in the juice around the pork and mix it up a bit. Then take the other half and spread it all over the top of the roast.
  • Salt and pepper as desired.
  • Pop the lid on the slow cooker, cook on low setting for about 6 to 8 hours, depending on your slow cooker. You want the meat to be soft enough to pull apart or "shred"
  • Once it's cooked you can take it out and set it on a cutting board. Turn off your slow cooker. Now you can cut the pork with a knife, or shred with two forks into bite sized pieces.
  • Now take a large frying pan, spray it with non stick spray. Heat over medium high heat, then pop the pork in there. Add about 1/4 of the juice from the slow cooker, and use a spider or strainer to scoop out as much of the onions as possible. Pop those in the frying pan too. Give it a good stir then add the sauce and minced garlic. Continue to cook it until it's nice and toasty warm.
  • Scoop oodles of it onto buns.
  • Serve with a big old pork lovin' smile!