French Fries with Pulled Pork and Cheese

For William's birthday, he went through my cookbooks and picked some recipes for us to try. One recipe was for French fries with pulled pork and cheese. Everyone really like it, and the pulled pork was delicious!

French Fries with Pulled Pork and Cheese

Ingredients:

• 2 Tbl vegetable oil, for cooking
• 1 Tbl brown sugar
• 2 tsp paprika
• 2 tsp garlic powder
• 2 tsp onion powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp pepper
• 1/2 tsp cumin
• 3 lbs boneless pork roast, cut into 2" cubes (or pork chile verde precut from your meat department)
• 1 1/4 cups beef broth, divided
• 1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
• 2 cups barbecue sauce, divided
• 2 regular bags (or 1 extra large bag) frozen French fries of your choice
• 1 can nacho cheese sauce
• extra barbecue sauce

Directions:

1. In a pressure cooker (Instapot), heat vegetable oil  on the "sauté" function until hot.
2. In a big bowl, mix together brown sugar, paprika, garlic powder, onion powder, salt, pepper and cumin. Toss in pork cubes and coat.
3. Add pork to the pressure cooker with hot oil and saute until meat starts to brown on all sides and brown bits start to form on the bottom of the cooker.
4. Remove pork from cooker and deglaze the pot with 1/4 cup beef broth, scraping all the cooked bit up from the bottom of the pot.
5. In a large bowl, mix together vinegar, (only) 1 cup of barbecue sauce, and remaining 1 cup beef broth.
6. Add pork back to the pressure cooker and pour sauce over the top. Cover and set to "pressure cook" on "manual" for 40 minutes. Allow cooker to naturally release pressure for another 10 minutes before doing a quick-release of remaining pressure.
7. Dain off most of the liquid that might remain from cooking (but all of it), and then shred the pork (I used a hand mixer to shred). (See Image)
8. Add additional barbecue sauce to pork as desired.
9. Cook frozen French fries in an air fryer (or by your own desired method of cooking) as per package directions, cooking in batches if necessary.
10. Heat nacho cheese sauce up on stove or in microwave.
11. Layer cooked fries with hot pulled pork and hot cheese sauce. Serve.

Cooked pork, but not drained.