Tropical Pork Roast I Made It Ii

Tropical Pork Roast

DIZ3 4 years ago
Recipe: Tropical Pork Roast
Submitted By: Lobster
Date: June 2, 2019

***May 2019 Group Recipe Challenge--Tropical Foods***

I have so enjoyed doing the Tropical Recipe Challenge. It’s allowed me to use up a lot of pantry items that have been sitting on the shelf far too long. Hubby has enjoyed it as well.

My final recipe for the challenge was Tropical Pork Roast. I’m given this a generous 4 as it was met with mixed reviews. It yields a very moist roast. The sauce, if you can taste it, is really, really sweet. Everything diluted down from the juice and fat that cooked from the pork roast. I started with a 3lb bone in pork shoulder roast that I seared first in a Dutch oven. I baked the roast in the Dutch Oven at 250 degrees for several hours until it fell apart. The roast was very moist, but the sauce was swimming in pork fat. We put a small amount over the meat. Hubby complained that it was sickening sweet with nothing to counter the flavor. He was right. You could not taste any pineapple or detect the cayenne pepper. I put the sauce in a bowl and refrigerated it overnight. The next day I scraped off all of the fat that rose to the top. Then cooked the sauce adding more cornstarch, pineapple juice, lots of cayenne pepper, and vinegar. I could see that it was going to take more tweaking than I had ingredients or time so I stopped. I ended up with a nice flavored sweet BBQ sauce that personally, I liked. I like sweet BBQ sauce on pulled pork, especially if you top it with coleslaw and make a pulled pork sandwich. Hubby is still not a fan and thought maybe it needs salt which is very unusual for his salt sensitive taste.

My suggestion would be to use a loin roast that is leaner so you don't get the fat run off. The flip side is that a loin roast is not a moist and has the potential to dry out if cooked too long.
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LindaLMT 4 years ago said:

Very nice photo DIZ! It looks like you have it set out for company. Glad you were able to make the recipe work and glad too you got to use pantry items not being used.

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DIZ3 4 years ago said:

Thank you, LindaLMT!

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mommyluvs2cook 4 years ago said:

I find that it is hard to keep much flavor in the sauce from any fatty roast. Do you have a fat separator? I just got one and love it. Your picture is amazing though, and glad you ended up getting a good BBQ type sauce out of it :)

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DIZ3 4 years ago said:

Thank you, Mommyluvs2cook! I have a fat separator. I've used it a couple of times when I've had to make gravy with the drippings. It's small and only holds about a cup of liquid. I thought about using it, but there were about 6 cups of juice in the pan. I didn't want to create any additional messes or dirty more dishes. I know, I'm lazy!

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eastcoaster 4 years ago said:

That is a very nice photo DIZ, to bad about the fat, but good that it was moist.

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