Marsha's Slow Cooker Sweet Pork For Burritos

My husband absolutely LOVES sweet pork, so I had to find a recipe to make it at home from time to time. He LOVES this recipe so much and requests it often. This recipe does marinade overnight.

Marsha's Sweet Pork

Ingredients:

• 2 pounds pork (boneless pork ribs)
• 3 cans regular Coke
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• dash garlic salt
• 1/4 cup water
• 1 can sliced green chilies
• 3/4 can red enchilada sauce
• 1 cup brown sugar

Directions:

1. Put the pork in a heavy duty ziploc bag to marinade. Add about a can and a half of Coke and 1/4 cup brown sugar. Marinade for a few hours or overnight.
2. Drain marinade and put pork, 1/2 a can of Coke, water, and garlic salt in a slow cooker on high for 3-4 hours or until pork shreds easily. Remove from pot, discard liquid and shred.
3. In a blender, mix 1/2 a can of Coke, chilies, enchilada sauce and 1 cup brown sugar until smooth. Adjust the amount of sugar and liquid to taste and thickness.
4. Put the shredded pork and the blender sauce all back into the slow cooker and cook on low for 2 hours. This can be a bit wet in the end, so if you don't want the juices running out of your burrito, be sure to drain the pork you are putting in your burrito thoroughly.

Marsha's Notes:

This meat tends to be really wet and make messy, sloppy burritos, which is not my favorite. To mitigate that some, I tried doing everything in the recipe exactly the same until step 3, where I opted for the entire can of enchilada sauce (with the chilies and brown sugar) and none of the Coke. Using that sauce with the shredded meat, I proceeded to step 4. After the 2 hour cook time, I was much happier with the consistency of the meat, but it just wasn't as sweet as we were used to, so I ended up adding the Coke back in last minute, which solved the taste problem, but we were back to wet, messy burritos.

Next time, I think I am going to do what I did above, but instead of fixing the sweetness level by adding in Coke, I think I will either add 1/4-1/2 cup more brown sugar to the blender mixture or directly to the crockpot after the 2-hour cook time. If I try this, I will come back and update the recipe with my report.