Friday, March 22, 2013

Crockpot Meals


Straw Hats-Real cowboy food!

2-3 lb beef top round roast

½ lb dry pinto beans, soaked overnight OR 3 15oz cans of pinto beans

1 1/2 t salt

½ t pepper

1 t cumin

1 t dried oregano

-place beef, beans (with liquid from soaking or from the can) and spices into a crockpot. Cook low for 8-10 hours. Take a potato masher and mash the beans and roast until it looks like refried beans.

-serve on top of tortilla chips. Top with cheese, lettuce, sour cream, tomatoes, avocado, onion…

 

Pork Carnatas (for tacos)

2 lbs pork shoulder

1 t salt

1 t black pepper

2 t dried oregano

1 t cumin

1 T olive oil

1 onion, chopped

4 cloves garlic, smashed/pressed

1 jalapeno, seeded and chopped

1 orange, cut in half

 

Pat pork dry with paper towels. In a small bowl mix together salt, pepper, oregano, cumin and oil. Mix it into a paste and rub over pork roast. Place roast in crockpot and top with onion, garlic and jalapeno. Squeeze orange juice over the pork and put two halves into the crockpot too. Cook 8-10 hours on low.

When pork is done remove from crock pot and let cool. When it’s cool, using your fingers or two forks, shred the pork.  (OPTIONAL: Heat broiler. Place pork in a single layer on a baking sheet. Cook under broiler until brown and crispy on one side) Serve in tacos, tostadas, quesadillas, pork sandwiches…

 

Pork Tanga Tacos

1 lb gold or red potatoes, cut into ½ inch cubes

2 lbs boneless pork shoulder, cut into 1 inch pieces

28 oz can diced tomatoes

2 canned chipotle chilies in adobo sauce, seeded and cut into slices

1 T sauce from the chilies

1 T Worchester sauce

1 t oregano

3 cloves garlic smashed or pressed

1 white onion, sliced

4 oz chorizo sausage (optional)

-spread potatoes in bottom of the crockpot. Top with pork. In a large bowl mix together remaining ingredients. Pour over pork and potatoes. Cook on high for 6 hours.

-Cook sausage in a frying pan until its crumbled. Add to potatoes and pork. Stir together everything in the crockpot.

-serve in tacos topped with cheese, and avocado


 

 

 

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