Root Beer Pulled Pork

Ingredients

• Crockpot - we use a 6 qt but you could use something a smaller one
• 3 lb - pork roast (I accidentally used beef with this and it was good but the pork is much better)
• 2 Liters - Root Beer (any brand but not diet)
• 1 jar - chili sauce (found near the ketchup, you can get Heinz or the store brand they taste the same to us)
• Flour tortillas
• 1 can - pinto or black beans
• 2 cups - rice (we use jasmine rice)
• 1 cup - shredded cheddar cheese
• Aluminum foil
• 1 tomato - diced
• sour cream
• lettuce
• anything else you might enjoy such as onions, black olives, etc.

Instructions

1. Put your meat in the crockpot.
2. Pour root beer over the meat until completely covered. With our large crockpot this ends up being a whole liter and a little bit of the second liter of root beer. You will need the leftover root beer later so keep it!
3. Cook the roast on high 4-6 hours or on low 8-10 hours. About 20 minutes before you are ready to serve you will want to start cooking your sauce... I use a rice cooker so I start my rice first and then start on the sauce. For the sauce, you will pour the jar of chili sauce and 3 cups of root beer in a medium size pot. Cook the sauce on medium heat for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally. It will reduce to about 2 cups.
4. While the sauce is cooking, I like to get the toppings prepared and start heating the beans. A few minutes before the sauce is done you will move your roast to a clean bowl and shred the meat. To do that you take two forks and just start pulling it apart. It should shred pretty easily. At this point, I realized that we accidentally got beef instead of pork and so it didn't shred as easily. It is kind of therapeutic so shred away.
5. After you have shredded the pork and the sauce is finished, you will pour the sauce on the meat and mix it really well.
6. Now the fun part! Assembling the burritos! These things get messy so we like to wrap them in aluminum foil. Cover your plate with aluminum foil and start with a tortilla. We add rice first, then beans, then meat and cheese. Keep adding toppings but be careful to not overload the burrito!
7. Once your burritos is done. You will wrap it up so it is easier to eat! Fold up the bottom and then both sides over the top. You will do the same thing with the aluminum foil.
8. The top of the burrito should be exposed and then you rip off a small part of the foil. This will allow you to eat the burrito and then tear off more, eat some and tear off a little more, all while keeping the messy juices inside.