BBQ Pork Sloppy Joes
Sloppy Joes represent an American impulse to transform humble ingredients into something worth gathering around. The addition of lime and hot sauce to traditional barbecue sauce adds brightness and heat that cuts through the richness of slow-cooked pork, while caramelized red onions provide sweetness and body. Roasting potatoes alongside grounds out the meal with textural contrast, turning a casual sandwich into something more substantial.
Instructions
1 Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
Wash and dry all produce.
Cut sweet potatoes into ½-inch-thick wedges.
Toss on a baking sheet with a drizzle of oil, salt, and pepper.
Roast until browned and tender, 20-25 minutes. 2 Meanwhile, halve and peel onion.
Slice as thinly as possible until you have ¼ cup (½ cup for 4 servings); finely chop remaining onion.
Peel and finely chop garlic.
Halve lime; squeeze juice into a small bowl.
Halve buns.
Add 1 TBSP butter (2 TBSP for 4) to a separate small microwave-safe bowl; microwave until melted, 30 seconds.
Brush onto cut sides of buns. 3 To bowl with lime juice, add sliced onion, ¼ tsp sugar (½ tsp for 4 servings), and a pinch of salt.
Stir to combine; set aside to quick-pickle. 4 Heat a drizzle of oil in a large pan over medium-high heat.
Add chopped onion and season with salt and pepper.
Cook, stirring, until softened, 4-5 minutes.
Add garlic and cook until fragrant, 30 seconds more.
Add pork and season with salt and pepper.
Cook, breaking up meat into pieces, until browned and cooked through, 4-6 minutes. 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).
Once pork is cooked through, add BBQ sauce mixture to pan.
Cook, stirring, until sauce is thickened, 2-3 minutes.
Taste and season with salt and pepper. 6 Meanwhile, toast buns in oven or toaster oven until golden, 3-5 minutes.
Divide toasted buns between plates and fill with as much BBQ pork as you’d like.
Top with pickled onion and hot sauce.
Serve with sweet potato wedges on the side..
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