BBQ Pork Sloppy Joes
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Ingredients
Preview for BBQ Pork Sloppy Joes dish

Potatoes

Red Onions

Garlic

Lime

Bread

Pork

Barbeque Sauce

Hotsauce

Tomato Ketchup

Sugar

Vegetable Oil

Salt

Pepper

2

1

2 cloves

1

2

1 lb

Instructions
  1. 1 Preheat oven to 450 degrees
  2. Wash and dry all produce
  3. Cut sweet potatoes into ½-inch-thick wedges
  4. Toss on a baking sheet with a drizzle of oil, salt, and pepper
  5. Roast until browned and tender, 20-25 minutes
  6. 2 Meanwhile, halve and peel onion
  7. Slice as thinly as possible until you have ¼ cup (½ cup for 4 servings); finely chop remaining onion
  8. Peel and finely chop garlic
  9. Halve lime; squeeze juice into a small bowl
  10. Halve buns
  11. Add 1 TBSP butter (2 TBSP for 4) to a separate small microwave-safe bowl; microwave until melted, 30 seconds
  12. Brush onto cut sides of buns
  13. 3 To bowl with lime juice, add sliced onion, ¼ tsp sugar (½ tsp for 4 servings), and a pinch of salt
  14. Stir to combine; set aside to quick-pickle
  15. 4 Heat a drizzle of oil in a large pan over medium-high heat
  16. Add chopped onion and season with salt and pepper
  17. Cook, stirring, until softened, 4-5 minutes
  18. Add garlic and cook until fragrant, 30 seconds more
  19. Add pork and season with salt and pepper
  20. Cook, breaking up meat into pieces, until browned and cooked through, 4-6 minutes
  21. 5 While pork cooks, in a third small bowl, combine BBQ sauce, pickling liquid from onion, 3 TBSP ketchup (6 TBSP for 4 servings), ½ tsp sugar (1 tsp for 4), and ¼ cup water (⅓ cup for 4)
  22. Once pork is cooked through, add BBQ sauce mixture to pan
  23. Cook, stirring, until sauce is thickened, 2-3 minutes
  24. Taste and season with salt and pepper
  25. 6 Meanwhile, toast buns in oven or toaster oven until golden, 3-5 minutes
  26. Divide toasted buns between plates and fill with as much BBQ pork as you’d like
  27. Top with pickled onion and hot sauce
  28. Serve with sweet potato wedges on the side