Café Rio (or Costa Vida) Sweet Pork Copycat Recipe

There are a ton of copycat Sweet Pork recipes on the web.  I have tried a few and made some tweaks and I think I have a pretty decent version of the yummy pork!  See what you think but I couldn't believe how easy it was.

Since my goal of doing this blog is to publish it into a cookbook, I am finally taking my own photos instead of getting them off of Google.  Now I have to go back and replace all of my previous posts with my own pics!

Café Rio Sweet Pork

Ingredients

6-7 pounds boneless pork ribs (they come in a package at Costco)

1 2 liter bottle of Coke (NOT Diet Coke or Coke Zero)

1 tsp garlic salt

1/4 c. water

1 medium sized can of sliced green chilies

1 can enchilada sauce (mild or medium depending on desired spiciness)

2 c. brown sugar

Directions

1. Put pork, 1 1/2 cups of coke, water, and garlic salt in crock pot on high for about 3-4 hours (or until it shreds easily, but don't let it get TOO dry) or on low for 8 hours. Remove pork from crock pot and drain any liquid left in the pot. Shred pork. 
2. In a blender, blend 2 cups Coke, chilies, enchilada sauce and brown sugar. If it looks too thick, add more Coke little by little.
3. Put shredded pork and sauce in crockpot and cook on low for 2 hours.

Caramelized Onion Potato Bake

This is a great side dish for steak.  We had this yesterday with bbq ribs and it was a hit.  I adapted this recipe from Tyler Florence's Carmelized Onion Potato Tart.

Caramelized Onion Potato Bake

Ingredients


4 potatoes
1 onion
Olive oil
Salt & Pepper
2 tbsp butter



Directions


1. Cut onion in half and slice onion thinly.

2. Put 4 tbsp olive oil in skillet on medium heat. Add onion and cook for 12-15 min until onion is caramelized.

3. Scrub potatoes and slice very thin (using a mandolin slicer helps).

4. Add onion mixture to potatoes and lightly toss together with spatula being careful not to break potatoes. Season with salt and pepper.

5. Add 2 tbsp olive oil to small casserole dish and add potato/onion mixture. Break up butter on top of potatoes. Cover with foil for 30 min. Remove foil and bake for another 20-30 min.