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This is a 2-in-1 recipe from the Safeway summer site. You make one meal and the leftovers make another meal. Its great with a tight budget. hope you all enjoy!

Ingredients

* 3 tbsp. firmly packed Safeway Light Brown Sugar, divided
* 3 tsp. ground allspice, divided
* 2 tsp. kosher salt, divided, plus more to taste
* 1 bone-in pork shoulder blade roast (3 1/2 lbs.), rinsed and patted dry
* 8 green onions (4 oz.), coarsely chopped
* 2 cloves garlic, peeled
* 2 fresh jalapeño chiles, seeded
* 2 tbsp. Safeway Tomato Paste
* 1/4 cup Safeway Cider Vinegar
* 1/2 tsp. freshly ground black pepper
* 1 tsp. dried thyme
* 12 Safeway French Bread Dinner Rolls, split horizontally
* Lime wedges

Steps
1. Prepare a gas or charcoal grill for indirect, medium-low heat
(you can hold your hand 1 to 2 in. above the cooking grate only
2 to 3 seconds; visit our Grilling Essential section for complete instructions).
Set a 10- by 12-in. foil drip pan beneath center of cooking grate; fill with 2 qt. water.

2. In a small bowl, mix 1 tbsp. brown sugar, 2 tsp. allspice, and 1 1/2 tsp. salt; rub over pork.
Place pork fat side up on oiled cooking grate over drip pan (not over direct heat).
If using charcoal, add 5 briquets to each mound of coals now; repeat every 30 minutes of cooking.
Cover charcoal grill and open vents; close lid on gas grill. Cook meat until tender when pierced, about 2 to 2 1/2 hours.

3. Meanwhile, in a food processor, whirl remaining 2 tbsp. brown sugar, 1 tsp. allspice and 1/2 tsp salt;
green onions; garlic; chiles; tomato paste; thyme; pepper; and vinegar and whirl until smooth.
When meat is tender, generously baste with half of onion mixture. Cook for 15 minutes and baste again.
Cook until coating is brown and meat shreds easily with a fork, about 30 minutes more.

4. Lift pork to a bowl; and tent with foil.
Skim and discard fat from pan liquid.
Measure liquid; if more than 1 1/2 cups, pour into a medium saucepan and boil over high heat until reduced to 1 1/2 cups.
Cut meat from bone (discard bone).
With 2 forks, pull meat into thin shreds; discard fat. Stir in cooking liquid.

5. Spoon about 1/3 cup pulled pork into each roll.
Top with a spoonful of Savory Mango Salsa.
Serve with lime wedges to squeeze over the meat and more salt to add to taste.

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Mmmm....

nellyhench's picture

...sounds delicious, but I'm a bit curious as to why you would need kosher salt for a pork dish! Is that a brand name? (I'm from the UK so you'll have to indulge my daft questions!!)

Nelly x

the reasons for using kosher salt

geekdiva's picture

If you search for Alton Brown & kosher salt, you'll see tons of links and even one to a video clip explaining why the Food Network host has famously advocated using kosher salt. Here's a link to a good blog that includes someone else's opinion as well as AB's:

http://www.strangecultureblog.com/2009/04/kosher-salt-yum.html

This forum has a link to the video clip (not from his show's episode entirely about salt, but instead an ad for a brand of kosher salt) and a brief discussion that's occasionally interesting, such as the comment, "Leave it to AB to break out a blowtorch when talking about salt!":

http://www.foodnetworkfans.com/forum/alton-brown-good-eats-fans-discussion/8719-check-out-alton-brown-diamond-kosher-salt-website.html

I started using kosher salt after seeing AB talking about it briefly in earlier episodes of "Good Eats", and while I haven't really compared it with table salt side-by-side, I think it does bring out more flavor, etc. But then again, maybe why the recipe from Safeway's site mentions using kosher salt is because it might be more expensive at their store. Heh.

You learn something new every day!

nellyhench's picture

Thanks Smiling

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