Maple Bourbon Pot Roast
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Serves: 6
 
Ingredients
  • 3-3.5 lb Pork Shoulder/Butt Roast
  • ¼ cup Vegetable Oil
  • ⅓ cup Brown Sugar
  • 1 tsp Cinnamon
  • 1 tsp Ground Coriander
  • 1 tsp Salt
  • 1 tsp Ground Black Pepper
  • 2 cups Apple Juice
  • ½ cup Bourbon
  • 1 TB Vanilla Bean Paste
  • 1 lb Fingerling Potatoes
  • 4 large Apples (cored and quartered with skin on)
  • 4 ounces Maple Syrup
Instructions
  1. Heat a pan large enough to fit your pot roast with vegetable oil over medium-high heat.
  2. Pat the pork roast dry with paper towels. Set aside.
  3. In a small bowl combine brown sugar, cinnamon, coriander, salt and ground black pepper. Once combined, rub the seasoning mixture over all sides of the pot roast.
  4. Brown pot roast 3-4 minutes each side.
  5. In a small bowl combine apple juice, bourbon and vanilla.
  6. Line the bottom of the crock pot with potatoes and apples. Once meat has finished browning, set meat on top of the potato and apple mixture.
  7. Pour the bourbon apple juice mixture over the pot roast, then drizzle maple syrup over the pot roast.
  8. Cook on low for 8 hours. Reserve some of the liquid after cooking for drizzling on the meat, for au jus or for keeping the meat juicy when storing leftovers.
Recipe by Dining with Alice at https://diningwithalice.com/comfort-foods/maple-bourbon-pot-roast/